1952
The Siriadic Columns and the Great Pyramid, by Paul Hoffman (a summary)
He mentions that from many classical authors' traditions
and records were preserved at a time before the flood and made for a universal
message to mankind in the future on this side of the universal cataclysm.
"Eusebius (Chronicles VI) says of Manetho's Dynasties:
"It remains, therefore, to make certain extracts concerning the dynasties
of Egyptians, from the writings of Manetho the Sebennyte, the high priest of
the idolatrous temples in the time of Ptolemaeus Phildelphus. These according
to his own account, he copied from the inscriptions which were engraved in
sacred dialect and hieroglyphic characters upon the columns set up in the
Siriadic land by Thoth, the first Hermes; and after the Deluge, translated from
the sacred dialect into Greek, in hieroglyphic characters and committed to
writing in books, and deposited by Agathodaemon, the son of the second Hermes,
the father of Tat, in the penetralia, of the temples of Egypt".
Josephus tells us that "All these (the sons of Seth)
being naturally of a good disposition, lived happily in the land without
apostatizing, and free from any evils whatsoever: and they studiously turned
their attention to the knowledge of the heavenly bodies and their
configurations. And lest their science should at any time be lost among men,
and what they had previously acquired should perish (inasmuch as Adam had
acquinted them that a universal aphanism, or destruction of all things, would
take place by the forces of fire and the overwhelming powers of water), they
erected two columns, one of brick and the other of stone, and engraved upon
each of them their discoveries; so that in case the brick pillar dissolved by
the waters, the stone one might survive to teach men the things engraved upon
it, and at the same time inform them that a brick one had formerly been also
errected by them. It remains even to the present day in the
"Naturally, it must be a most important thing to
modern Atlantologists to ascertain, whether these traditions hold good in the
sense that the Seriadic columns are still to be found, either in natura, or at
least the contents of the inscriptions mentioned."
The author goes on to say 'did we receive any
"knowledge of the heavenly bodies and their configurations". Then he
adds, "Did such information come from any known object, and was finally,
the information worthy of being regarded as cultural conquests of a great and
highly civilized nation unutterably old?"
The answer he goes on to say came down from the remote past
in measures, and proportions of the Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt.
A Danish Scientist, "Mr. Hohlenberg's investigations
in the measures of the pyramid lead him to the conclusion that there may well
"be a harmony-hidden from us- between the TT (pi) proportion of the circle
and the dimensions of the earth and its distance from the sun, a harmony it may
be the purpose of the pyramids to express."
He goes onto say that is not easy to connect these Siriadic
columns with the Great Pyramid, but that he will attempt to explain there
connections by classical writers of ancient times had to say about.
'According to Abd el Kader ben Mohammed el Makrizi:
"King Surid, son of Sahluk, who lived three hundered years before the
flood, once dreamt that the earth was twisted round, the stars fell from the
sky, and all mankind took refuge in terror. He gathered his interpreters of
dreams and asked them what his dream meant. The most distinguished of them,
Philemon, said: "I shall tell the king a dream, I had a year ago, and of which I spoke to no one. I dreamt
that I was sitting with the king on the tower of Amsus. Then, suddenly, the sky
came down and surrounded our heads like a dome; the stars fell down over us and
all mankind fled in horror to the royal palace, crying out to the king for
help. He lifted his arms against the sky and ordered me to do the same and we
were terror-stricken. Suddenly we saw the heavens open, and a gleaming light
sprang forth and the sun rose above us. Then we cried to it for help, and it
spoke to us saying: "The firnament shall return to its former site",
and I awakened full of horror". The King answered "Examine the
position of the stars and look if anything new is going to happen". They
did their best, as accurately as possible, and told that a great flood would
come and afterwards a fire, from the constellation Leo burning up all the
world. Then the King said, "look if this disaster is going to befall our
country?". They said, "Yes, the flood will befall most of the
country". Then he said, "Look if it will flourish again or will it
remain inundated"? They answered, "No, our country will again be as
it was and flourish". Then he ordered the pyramids to be built and the
Nile to be led into certain canals, and he filled the Pyramid with talismans,
wonders, treasures, and idols, and with mummies of kings, and according to the
Kings order the soothsayers recorded all that the wise men had to said. On the
walls and ceilings of the pyramid all the secret sciences of Egypt were
recorded, and pictures of the starry sky were painted thereupon, and the names
of curing and harmful things, and besides all they knew of arithmetic and
geometry, understandable to anyone who knows the language and its writing. And
when the building of the pyramids was about to begin, he had huge columns and
stone flags carved and granite fetched from Assuan…"
In Abou Balkhi is to be read: "The wise men, previous
to the flood, foreseeing an impending judgment from heaven, either by
submersion or fire, which would destroy every created thing, built upon the
tops of the mountains in Upper Egypt many pyramids of stone, in order to have
some refuge against the approaching calamity. Two of these buildings exceeded
the rest in height, being four hundred cubits high and as many broad and as
many long. They were built with large blocks of marble, and they were so well
put together that the joints were scarcely perceptible. Upon the exterior of
the building every charm and wonder of physic was inscribed".
Finally Hohlenberg names another Arabian author, al Beruni,
who tells that the great flood "stopped at the mountian-range on the
eastern side of the Nile just opposite of the Pyramids. They were built by
people from the West who foresaw the coming flood and were covered with water
till the middle of their sides".
Outside of the fact that Cheops name was found engraved
there was also another engraving of a certain name that Brunton points out of
"Khnem", and know one knows who this Khnem is? Hohlenberg deduced the
names on the stones are related to quarry marks or identification marks after
having cut the elements out of the Mokattam hills. Cheops name has appeared at
the mines of Sinai as well as on Elephantine Island, and on a rocky Island in
the Nile by the first cataract. Also, Cheops was never declared in inscriptions
to be buried at the Great Pyramid!!!!! In regards to what Herodotus says on
this, that "There are neither subterranean chambers under it nor has a
canal from the Nile been led into to it as it has been into the other pyramid
in which Cheops himself is said to have been buried and where it flows through
a brick ditch round and Island where the tomb itself is situated". It
would seem the Herodotus or his source never visited the pyramids by this
description? One statement completely ignored is this comment by Herodotus
about, "Cheops closed the temples". Nevertheless, the temple of the
cat goddess Bast in Bubastis was first built by Cheops and Chefren. Here is the
crux of the question, how can ferocious Cheops who closed the temples, at his
death be busy building a temple!? The comment seems only to get a sound meaning
if the temple in question is the great pyramid? The one of Cheops was actually
closed, by a solid wedge of granite put into the entrance of the ascending
corridor, leading to the grand gallery of the Great Pyramid of Giza? This may
bring questions upon Kephrens as well of his lack of connection to the second
pyramid? "Mr. Sykes, who has made careful investigations on this point,
came to the conclusion that there may well be hidden chambers in the Pyramids
not yet found, and there is no reason at all why the one of Cheops should differ
from its twin in having an upward system of corridors, a system which seems a
most important feature in the building plan." Is it possible to say, when
this blocking up of the pyramid took place? He asks then can there be a
date when the great pyramid was built. Two, theories have been put forward,
both of which use as a starting point the bases of astronomical facts, taking a
starting point in certain constellations of heavenly bodies distinctly referred
to in measures and angles of the great pyramid. . The first theory, basing its
results on the former positions of Alcyone and Draconis and in relation to
between these stars and certain lines in the pyramid, arrives at the year about
2,140 B.C. While the other one-and far most probable (as among other things
some of the Arabian authors directly mention the stars in question when
speaking of the age of the pyramids)- treats the stars Sirius and Vega in the
same way and thereby arrives at about 12,000 B.C. Furthermore, the statement of
the year 2140 B.C. is backed chiefly by some lines that cut the walls of an
inside corridor pointing to these stars, which marks could easily have been put
in after the pyramid was built. Hoffman goes onto say that the 12,000 B.C. is
the more likely date, and basing on the statements of other writers that the
Planet Luna capture was before the building of pyramids. Hoffman goes onto say
that with this information about the warnings in dreams by the king and priests
of Atlantis. That this may have been what Plato's unfinished next verse would
have been about the foreseeing of Atlantis destruction or their preparations
for it, then the pronouncement by god of its heavenly doom. Especially in
Critias section by Plato that ends when Zeus was about to make a pronouncement.
Hoffman goes on to say, "Moreover, is it not most
probable, that these pyramids were themselves almost exact copies of the
corresponding edifices in the Lost Atlantis? It would be a natural thing to the
Atlanteans to copy their most sacred buildings, in a comparatively safe place,
perhaps the sun temples themselves, and thus it may be in direct continuation
that the Egyptians used them in the service of the sacred mysteries as a place
of initiation. Why Cheops, probably thousands of years later, closed the
temples, we can not say, but Egyptologists, a little more willing to
co-operate, should certainly be able to give some most valuable hints to this
matter."
He goes on to say, "that from King Mykerinos the
aboriginal type of Egyptian pyramids is abandoned and the copying of the Giza
Pyramids begins. " He then mentions, "We usually forget that the
sentence: "The bigger the pyramid, the greater the power" is
illogical and should be replaced with: "The bigger the pyramid, the
greater the decadence". Mykerinos tried to make his pyramid come up to the
two mysterious Giza-pyramids, and his attempt turned out so miserably, that his
successors desisted from placing their pyramids in the shadow of their
patterns. They built them elsewhere in Egypt, not step pyramids, as the predecessors
of Cheops, but "simple pyramids" like those of Mykerinos. The Meydum
and Sakkhara edifices, attributed to Snefru and Zoser, most intimately
corresponds with the American pyramids as shown by Mr. Sykes (compare
respectively the temples of Tikal and the central pyramid of Chichen-Itza), but
every later building in Egypt is a different type."
He concludes with a question: "Where are the
inscriptions so often referred to, but obviously not to be found on the
pyramids today? According to Manetoh, they were copied in books and
"deposited in the penetralia of the temples of Egypt". These
maunscripts must have been the source from which the priests of Sais had their
knowledge, telling Solon that "whatever happened either in your country or
in ours, or any other region of which we are informed-if any action which is
noble or great or in any other way remarkable has taken place, all that has
been written down of old and is preserved in our temples".
Hoffman contends that Manetho assertion that "Egypt
before Menes was ruled over by "Gods" is veritable history seems to
need no discussion. There is no reason at all why the Egyptian gods and
goddesses should not be historical persons as well as the Greek ones, and it is
one of the marvels that Egyptologists after having found Osiris' tomb at
Abydos, reject his existence)". "As to the inscriptions themselves,
they were seen for the last time by Cantor, who lived not very long after
Plato. It is not very difficult to find out what happened to them afterwards.
An earthquake took place in the year 908 A.D., and badly damaging the pyramids,
and there is no reason why there should not have been others before then. The
gleaming white cover of the pyramids, referred to by classical authors and
doubtless bearing the said inscriptions, fell down. The Siriadic columns were
said to have been lost. Many of Cairo's 700 mosques were built of this
ruin-material, and an investigation of these buildings, if it could ever be
made, should give interesting results." Lastly, about the Sphinx:
"well accords with tradition telling of an underground passage connecting
it with the great pyramid", and "I am perfectly convinced that the
solution of a good deal of our present problems concerning the
Egyptian-Atlantean connection lie buried here."
The Story of the Silver
Belt, by E. Sykes (1952 cont.)