Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-08-04


of the American flag. Yet to-day 1t
out-sphinxes the Sphinx in obseurity, |
and continues 70 dominate the earth |
as the insolvable secret TO which the
SPHINX itself is, maybe, the password
One hypothesis more or less will hardly
alter the stability of the Pyramid, so
may venture on one which will have
at least the virtue of novelty, and
which will, at the same time, pursue
the course of these papers in the direc'
ton of the same general conclusion
About ten years ago ! contributed
by request, to a scientific pubiica-
ton, which has since passed out of ex-
istence. a short paper on the cele-
brated ''coffer" in the kings chamber,
IN the interior Of the Great Pyramid
of Ghizeh. 1t is the hypothesis al
luded to in that paper with which
purpose dealing briefly in the present
article.
Pyramid mensuration has been
widely recognized by astronomers,
and other scientific persons. as having
| obvious relation with the earth's mean
4 distance from the sun, as well as with
other important measurements and
( proportions Certain writers have
claimed for the Pyramid also pro-
4 phetic mission bearing upon Mes
sianic reappearancc One such claims
that as the birth Of Christ occurred at
the period when shepherds watched
their fiocks by night, it must have
been in that latitude at or about the
\ September equinox, or when the sun
enters Capricorn-this, by the way.
Another writer contends that the ORR
gin of the Pyramid is antediluvian.
holding that the theory of its having
been constructed by King Cheops
lShoofu, or Kufu, fourth dynasty and
in Il. C. a,l-O, is based on an infirm
foundation This theory depends,
partly, on the astronomical fact that
the star a Draconis was the pole star
at that time, and was visible through
the angular passage in the Pyramid
extending from the subterranean
chamber. Partly. also, it is based on
the existence of a cartouche assumed
to be that OF King Cheops) inscribed
in the interior Of the Pyramid, and
also in a rock tablet at Wady Mag
harah, a quarry whence the stones for
its construction were taken The
cartouche is of the most archaic form
known; it may be observed that it
bears some resemblance to fish
AS is seen, this cartouehe contains
the figures Of bird, snakes goat,
a ever or pitcher, and a disk with a
point in the center. The pitcher GER
tainly suggests water-and the sign
Aquavius-just as the goat does the
sign Capricornus And as the circle
with the dot is the equivalent of the
Egyptian "Ra"-the sun-it does not
require very violent stretch Of the
imagination to assume that the ideo-
graphs meant that at some period
when the sun was in the sign Capri
cornus, an event of a watery charac.
ter would happen. Taken in connec.
ton with the curious prediction Of
Berosus. the priest of Bel, in Alexan-
dria that when the planets coincided
in Capricornus the world would be
destroyed by water. the existence of
this cartouche within the Pyramid is
not without a certain value as coinci-
dent testimony.
There is no need, however, to draw
on the imagination for suggestion in
the case Of these hieroglyphics for we
have in such an authority as NJ. Cham
pollion the exact definition OF the
different forms employed in the car
touche; thus, the bird means ITO
guard. to preserve, and the pitcher
and the goat stand for the letters n
and b, and mean the god Ned or
Noun, who was the Egyptian primor-
dial deity, instead of King Cheops
But not only this The disk, with the
point in the middle and the goat,
taken together symbolically, also
mean Noun, as the sun-god. The
snake is a symbol which stands for the