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THE
GREAT PYRAMID -
ANTECHAMBER TO THE KING’S CHAMBER
Orthodox
Theory  According
to Egyptologists, the Antechamber was a portcullis room for the
protection of the burial chamber. It is supposed
that the three granite slabs (now missing) were lowered
to the floor by means of wooden rollers and ropes, the vertical
grooves
in the south wall acting as guides for the ropes, and the
granite leaf functioning as a counterweight. The use of granite,
interlaced
with limestone blocks, is a puzzling and unexplained feature
of the Antechamber.
Alford
Theory
It
is not apparent how a portcullis could have functioned in the
Antechamber, and several facts argue strongly
against the
idea. Certain features are better understood as decorative
and symbolic. The grooves in the south wall resemble
the pattern of a fluted column, and are an exact image of
a decorative
pattern
found on a 1st dynasty portcullis slab, whilst the
granite leaf resembles the rolled-up reed-mat curtain design
which
was used
from Old Kingdom times to symbolise the entrance to
the ‘other
world’. In addition, there is evidence that this
room was not kept open for a funeral, but was sealed
by a plate, or plug,
of stone at the mouth of the King’s Chamber Passage.
In
keeping with my acoustic theory of the King’s
Chamber, the Antechamber, built predominantly of granite,
would have produced
acoustic effects. It is theorised that the ‘portcullis
slabs’ and the granite leaf were tuned to resonate
at certain low frequencies, and that a man was intended
to stand
in the
gap in front of the granite leaf, at the threshold
of the room, where the granite began. The sound effect
might then have induced
an altered state of consciousness in the subject, causing
him to receive a vision of the creation. In short,
it is proposed
that the Antechamber was an initiation room in which
a representative of a future generation, or race, of
men would experience an
insight into the physics and metaphysics of the Universe,
as conceived
by the builders of the Pyramid. |
