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'The Great Pyramid and the Sphinx' provides a reliable and insightful guide to the meaning and origin of the Great Pyramid, the Sphinx, and associated monuments on the Giza Plateau. Cutting through speculation and conservative attidudes, this guide offers authoritative conclusions about the Great Pyramid, the Sphinx and other Old Kingdom monuments of Egypt. A new generation of Egyptologists have established these monuments were used for initiatory religions, similar to the Greek Mysteries. Discover: * A new interpretation of the mystical themes embodied in the architecture and features of the Great Pyramid, the underground Chamber of Osiris, the Sphinx and the valley temples. * Why the pyramid shape was chosen, why the Sphinx has a lion shape, and how the different purposes to these monuments form an integrated sacred site. * What feelings and values inspired the ancient Egyptians to build these temples. * The crucial roles of Pharaoh Khufu and Khafre, of Hermes, of the priests at Heliopolis. * How the monuments sserved the rites of the after-life and the sun god Ra-Harmachis. * The awe-inspiring technological and engineering achievements. * The relevance of the star Sirius, and Osiris to the ancient Egyptians.

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• Celý názov: Great Pyramid and the Sphinx
• Podnázov: The Essential Handbook to the Monuments of Giza
• Autor: Damien Pryor
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Väzba: Brožovaná
• Počet strán: 138
• EAN: 9780958134149
• ISBN: 0958134146
• ID: 11587492
• Nakladateľ: Threshold Publishing
• Hmotnosť: 233 g
• Rozmery: 244 × 170 × 7 mm
• Dátum vydania: 30. September 2014

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