FIVE WAYS THE EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS DIFFER - Onyeji Nnaji
GIZA
AND SAQQARA
Pyramids are constructed for different
purposes depending on the objective each builder intends to achieve at the
moment of the construction. Sometimes it is constructed to sustain matter(s) of
immediate stance, while in many cases it's has been purposefully constructed to
contain certain pedagogical reasons. Above all, pyramids have been remarkable
and significant in the recognitions accorded to the nations and people that had
or still has them. Devoid of purposes, many nations and people that constructed
pyramids in the recent past did so to identify with the great nations of
antiquity whose recognitions in the hall of history were marked with the
involvement with matters as pyramids. This was the primary purpose that fired
the erection of pyramids among all the nations that built after the Nubian and
Egyptian civilizations. The Egyptian pyramids, that at Giza and that at Saqqara
were designed by different people and different purposes.
Looking at the populous pyramids in Egypt
which had attracted the attention of tourists all around the world, the first
thing common sense could easily work out is that they are different in their looks.
The Giza pyramid which was constructed by Pharaoh Chiop much later is different from the earlier one built by Pharaoh Djoser in Saqqara. While the Giza pyramid is plane in its nature, the
Saqqara pyramid is stepped in nature. Each of these pyramids reflected the
period and the situation of the Egyptian government at the time of their
constructions. While the Saqqara pyramid was constructed by Djoser, in the third dynasty, 2,630 B.C.; the Giza
pyramid was constructed around 2,560 B.C. by the fourth dynasty king, Pharaoh Khufu about 70 years later.
Secondly, the Giza pyramid was mysterious, but the
Saqqara pyramid was symbolic. Many cults in the western world had tried
to identify with the purported divinity of the Giza pyramid. They looked for
ways of assigning authenticity to their arts by claiming that the source was
traced to the great pyramid of Giza. The all-encompassing idea instituted the
freemason and the much later illuminati cult was claimed to have originated
from the Giza Pyramid. In The New World Order, Ralph Epperson remarks thus:
Max Toth, a
writer about the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt also wrote about the purpose of
symbols: "The knowledge of the ancient mysteries was never revealed to the
layman except through the media of symbols. Symbolism fulfilled both the need
to conceal sacred truths from the uninitiated and to offer a language for those
qualified to understand it." Whatever these secrets are, one writer on the
subject feels it is time to make them public. Alice Bailey, one of the key
writers supporting the New Age movement, wrote this: "The hour for the
ancient mysteries has arrived... These Ancient Mysteries were ... hidden in
numbers, in ritual, in words, and in symbology; these veil the secret
...."
(PP.36-37).
This is the reason for the use of the great
pyramid as their symbols and this assigns impetus to the great seal in the
American currency. Unfortunately, the Giza pyramid is but a tomb for pharaohs,
it is not a place for the mystery that the world mystic schools seek. The
highest mystery is in the symbolic representation of the stepped pyramid at
Saqqara. Documents designed for the explanation of the symbolic mystery was
kept in the temples At Abydos until the time when it was invaded by thieves
like Aristotle the Stangrite and the Arab conquests of the much later kingdom.
Thirdly, the great pyramid at Giza represented fire,
while the stepped pyramid at Saqqara represented land. The pyramid of
Giza is dedicated to the sun god, Ra. By supposition, the great pyramid was
supposed to serve as a temple for the worship of the sun god. Unfortunately it
is purely a burial ground for kings and queens. The step pyramid represents the
belief held by the Egyptians, Igbo and the Israelites. Both Egypt and Israel
celebrate the monumental culture that dramatizes the raising of mounds. The
Igbo spoke of creation as beginning from the anthill. To show this, the pot had
to be neatly and carefully placed on a mound. Egypt and Israel hold to this
same view in her mythology. They believed that God started the work of creation
with a raised earth or mound. On this mound, God stood while He embarked on the
business of creation. Israel celebrates this idea by raising mounds.
Fourthly, the Giza pyramid was purportedly
adopted in a museum-like form, but the Saqqara pyramid was adopted for
historical reasons. The different apartments in the Giza pyramid shows
it better as a tourist centre. The Saqqara pyramid reflects a historical
adaptation that traces the history the ancient pharaohs of Egypt. A document procured from the temple in Abydos
by Emily Teeter and his research team reveals that the step pyramid is copy of
another pyramid constructed elsewhere; the place where (According to a 1870s
excavator of the temple, Petries, remarked that) the population that founded
Egypt had travelled from. The document reads,
An abbreviated version of
more monumental forms of depiction, of a kind already rendered in stone relief, but hardly preserved from
these early periods. It depicts part of
a ceremony later enacted in the step pyramid complex of Djoser at Saqqara. (Before
the pyramids, 101).
The pyramid whose culture informed the later
enacted pyramid complex of Djoser, at Saqqara was found in Agbaja, Nsude in the
ancient Nsukka civilization.
History recorded that the people among whom
this pyramid existed were the civilizers of Egypt.
Fifthly, the Giza pyramid was constructed by a body
of architects, while the Saqqara pyramid was designed by a mystery master.
The technique required in the erecting of the Giza pyramid was not intended for
veneration, except as a sepulcher and museum where history tools as mummies and
issues connected to them. The builder of the Saqqara pyramid was Imhotep. Imhotep
was described as an architect, a priest and a healer; a god-man who had
understanding of history, time and people. He had the history that even Djoser
might not have had about the Pharaoh’s of Egypt. Ask me and I will insistently
tell you that he must have been in position of the original pyramid’s image.
Compare the images below for instance,
In conclusion, both the Saqqara step pyramid
and the later Giza pyramid have one message to the world generally.
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