Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project

so um this will be a fun class today we are doing the Great Pyramid okay so um the Great Pyramid was built about 2500 BC that's 4,500 Years Ago by a pharaoh named uh curfew and um it was one of the seven uh great wonders of the um ancient world it's the only one that's still standing um from 2500 until 14400 uh CE which is about 4,000 years it was the tallest man man-made building in the world okay um the Great Pyramid um the direction is too North meaning you can actually use the pyramids as a compass to tell the directions um let's look at the um architecture of the Great Pyramid so the center is something called The King's chamber that's where the king's mummy rests in the sarcophagus um there's a grand gallery that gives you access to the king's chamber and then a slope and then it's a pyramid structure and on the top of the pyramid is what is called a Ben bed or the uh the P the Pion okay the P the Pyon okay and it is extremely significant culturally and religiously in Egypt because in Egyptian mythology the religion um the Creator God atum he's known as atum he's also known as Rah the son God first came into existence on the Ben Ben so imagine a large dark ocean there's nothing and then suddenly emerges a mound okay called a benden and that's where comes the CR God atum or raah okay that's one Legend the other Legend is from the dark ocean of space comes down a Ben band and on top of it rests atum okay so this idea of the pordan the Ben Ben it is Central to the idea of Creation in Egan mythology so this is an extremely powerful and beautiful Monument to EG Egyptian culture architecturally Napoleon who visited the Great Pyramid he he calculated that if you took all the stones from the Great Pyramid you could actually build a wall around the perimeter of France there's more material in the Great Pyramid except for two structures the first structure is the Great Wall of China there's more Stone in the great in the Great Wall of China okay there's more Stone there's more material in um three gorgeous Dam also in China okay and it took them about 26 years to build this pyramid so today in today's class I'm going to look at three questions the first question is how do they build this because it's still with us today you actually go to Egypt and visit the Great Pyramid second question is why did they build this what was the purpose and the third question is why did they stop bu in the pyramids okay so those those are the three questions we're looking at we're looking at today how was it built why was it built and why did the Egyptians stop building uh the pyramids so um um how it was built is an extremely controversial question that has plagued historians and otologists and archaeologist for hundreds of years okay um and originally a Greek historian but Herodotus proposed the idea the pyramid was built in steps okay so it was first a step pyramid and then using Poli they pull the stones up okay and it's it was it was the accepted idea for for the longest time because there's no better idea but architecturally that has been uh disproven okay it can't work that way um then about 10 years ago there was a French architect named John Pierre houdin okay H oou the houdin and he's an architect he's never been in Egypt doesn't speak Arabic never studi Egypt but his father and him were very interested in how the good parent was constructed so he came up with this Theory and they run they've run computer stimulations and discovered this to be true there's also a lot of physical evidence to suggest this theory is true okay so so this is how they built the Great Pyramid what they did was they first constructed a external ramp in order to build a base okay so you now have the base and then from the base what they did was um they built two structures okay and this is what they call counterweight counter weights okay so these counterweights are like polies which allows them pull the stones up uh to uh up high okay and then surrounding these two structures is what they call a Eternal spiral lamp uh ramp okay to carry the stones up and so what they did was they basically built the pyramids from the inside out and then once they built the structure they covered it up with Limestone so that it reflects in the in the sun okay if you actually were living back then and you saw the the pyramids from a distance you would think it was the star that has come down on the planet Earth okay so that's how they built um the pyramid but then this raises another interesting question is how they come up with this plan and how were they able to do this without Blueprints and without um basically writing or modern engineering techniques and the answer is if you think about it um what they did was they build a model right beside the pyramid which allowed them to figure out how to build the larger pyramid okay um but it otologists still believe this was not possible because they believe that Egyptians didn't have the intellectual capacity to imagine this to be true okay and I'll show you later on that they that they actually did that we're we underestimate their imagination um and their intellectual capacity right so that answers the first question pretty easily how is it built a more controversial question is why was it built and for the longest time the accepted theory is this was a tomb okay a tomb the reason why is Egyptians believed in the afterlife and so the theory is this pyramid is designed to ease the pharaoh's transition into the heavens where he would become a star or a sun and um so the common phrase is this is almost a resurrection machine where the Pharaoh goes up to the to the sky and then after a few centuries he he re reincarnates inside the pyramid and the structure is meant to accomplish this and again this is the generally accepted Theory today but there are three major problems with this Theory which basically makes it uh which basically discounts it okay the first major problem is there are about 100 pyramids in Egypt okay 100 or more we don't know okay we have not found a mummy or a body inside any sagus inside the pyramids so this is a problem if this is a tomb why is there no there no body we can't find the body okay so that's one problem second problem is this um for this a tomb this implies that the Pharaoh when because the Pharaohs are divine right they are um basically the emation of God on Earth this means that when they come to the planet Earth and they become the Pharaoh their priority is to build their own tomb right does that make any sense they come to Earth and they're like okay well I'm gonna die so I want I want to get out of here as soon as possible so let's build that tomb right now the problem is is that this would imply that the Pharaoh sees the Egyptian people as his slaves right you exist in order for me to live and so um but the problem is that in it mythology gods are considered benefactors of the human race okay so for example atum he is the one who gave life to the world but then his son his descendant oaris another God gave civilization to Egypt and then Horus the son of oares gave the institution of kingship to Egypt okay so these Gods come to Earth in order to um help the human race develop in some capacity so it doesn't making any sense that the pharaoh's primary purpose when he's on Earth is to create a tomb because that's a very selfish reason okay does that make sense and the third problem with this is just pure logic if you're a FOH and your primary concern is the afterlife resurrecting yourself and the pyramid is a primary means of accomplishing this and it takes about 26 years or 30 years to build a pyramid how can you be sure that you won't die before the pyramid is built right that's a problem okay so these are three logical problems but again otologist insists that it is a tomb okay primarily because of the way that Egyptians understand the afterlife okay so here's some evidence to suggest it is a tomb this is um considered um a writing of a pharaoh to his son about what the pyramid represents so this is what he says make your grave well furnished and prepare thy place in the west okay the West is where they go off to die look death counts little for us okay we can conquer death look life is valued highly by us we want to become immortal The House of the Dead meaning the tomb is for life okay so the pyramid is what will make us Immortal all right so this is um again how highly debated today so logically speaking it doesn't make sense that that the pyramids are a tomb but there's allot of evidence to suggest it is a tomb and because of this debate different theories have been proposed as to the purpose of the uh pyramid and there are lots of really strange theories out there okay lots of really strange theories uh one really interesting theory was proposed by a man named Nicola Tesla uh the found the the creator of electricity basically and his idea was this he studied the architecture of the pyramid and he proposed the pyramid was a battery system okay in order to create free sorry to create free clean energy and the theory is this okay the theory is first of all if you look at the king's chamber um the sound frequency in it is FP and fshp is also the frequency of planet Earth okay so it seems like the pyramid is attune to the planet Earth second of all if you look at um where the pyramids are geographically it's two North okay it's put in a place that matches um the directions of the Earth Earth and so the theory is the direction of the pyramid is capturing the energy from the electromagnetic field that the Earth generates okay and the third explanation is inside um the pyramid are Granite stones and outside are limestones and this is the perfect way to trap and store energy okay so think of a solar panel uh where the Sun and the Moon reflects light onto the pyramids and the energy stored inside the pyramid okay and so this is a great Theory and again there are lots of people who believe in this because um this is actually much more plausible than the tomb Theory but the problem with this of course is it doesn't work scientifically and also you have the question of if they produce all this free clean energy what are they using it for okay so this leads us with a big question why did they build the Great Pyramid and today I want I want to propose to you another solution okay the the solution is this my belief is the Great Pyramid was designed as Egypt's Manhattan Project okay the man project as you know uh was a World War II project in order to build the nuclear bom bomb and you can argue nuclear bomb is Humanity's greatest invention ever it took about 130,000 people over five to six years working in United States in Canada in UK and these are the best scientists in the world at this time okay working collectively in order to create the nuclear bomb and you can also make the argument that there are many working on the project who believe the man project was about bringing peace to Earth Eternal peace it was ultimately about mastering the secrets of the universe channeling the power of God in order to create Eternal peace to bring God on Earth and You' also argue that because we've had no major war after World War II fingers crossed they were right okay so that's my argument to you the Egyptians conceptualized and created the Great Pyramid in order to harness the power of God in order to create Eternal peace on Earth to bring an end to history to bring an end to pain suffering and death okay so before I Pro provide the evidence let me explain this theory in general okay and again um this is my theory it's speculation it's imagination but I think it makes sense okay so so let me explain the theory to you the trick is the body of the feral The Mummy okay now if the Pharaoh was divine and Theus believed he was divine then after his death the body would be sacred in the vine right but not only that but you think about it after the Pharaoh dies he would Ascend to the Heavens to become a star or a sun right the body then we becomes a portal or a mechanism for you to communicate with the Pharaoh while he's in the heavens you can also argue the body The Mummy could be a mechanism for you to channel the pharaoh's powers on Earth okay so imagine this you have the sarcophagus The Mummy is inside okay okay and then you have the grand gallery and inside the grand Gallery what are people doing they are there praying and worshiping the feral which then draws the energy from the star bars onto the Earth and then because of the Limestone this energy is reflected across Egypt so the entire nation can bask in the Divine energy of the Pharaoh okay so Nichol Tessa said that this was a battery in order to Channel free clean energy to power Egypt well what if we change this to Divine energy instead the pyramid was a battery to channel Divine energy in order to power Egypt right now let me discuss if you are a worshipper in the grand Gallery what are you experiencing okay well first of all you're experiencing the Collision the Nexus of life and death right because the Pharaoh he's dead but he's still alive through your faith even though you're you're mortal you're now communication with God okay so this is a Nexus of life and death this Grand Channel sorry this Grand Gallery if you actually have a chance to visit it in um Egypt okay you re you'll recognize that this almost looks like a womb okay all right so it's almost like you're inside a dark space that's taking you back to the point of your birth right but it's also you can also be seen as a tomb a place where you're being buried so this is also like another Collision conflation or Nexus of being born and dying if you were outside and you just saw the pyramid again you would think of it as a star that has landed on earth right so this is a conflation a Nexus of Heaven and Earth it's a collision a Nexus of myth and reality you can also make the argument that through Divine worship what you're really doing is you're reversing the great bang sorry the Big Bang You're reversing the Big Bang you're bringing into this one space and you are creating Oneness wholeness and completeness you have achieved the Union and the unity of all things through your faith in the Pharaoh which gives you divine energy to be born a new cleanse of your sins and to cleanse others of their sins to create a moral Egypt okay does that make sense all right so that's a theory so now let me explain the idea of Eternal peace why would the pyramid create the idea of Eternal peace well the first reason is even though Egypt was a Empire Dynasty at this point it was still divided culturally okay there were at least four different cultures scattered around Egypt and they all had their own mythologies they had all their own religious practices they had their own faiths right so the point of this pyramid was to unite all these faiths into One Singular object in the worship of the Pharaoh if you were an Egyptian citizen if you were in Egypt and you looked at the pyramids you can not help but think this is God on Earth okay this centers your faith and it forces your obedience and your submission to higher authority which is a theough okay that's the first reason Unity second is the idea of a so so let's just say you're a powerful Army and you're an enemy and you want to conquer Egypt well you send your Scouts to Egypt and they see the pyramids right the Great Pyramid what are they seeing they're seeing God on Earth okay so you're not going to attack God on Earth you're going to run away so it creates a sense of awe around the world right the last thing is um the domination of nature so through divine inspiration Egyptians are able to sum summon the Great Pyramid and it shows the God's ability to control nature why is this important because the source of Egyptian wealth and power is the Nile River okay the Nile River and basically it's the N River that's made Egypt the wealthiest country in the world for thousands of years okay so the thing about the Nile is if it's in a good mood you live a very good life because the now just floods uh um just floods a bangs and leaves this rich soil and then you just throw some seeds in it and then you can grow all these crops very easily okay very very it's very easy life and you can become very wealthy that way so if it's in good mood then you are a very happy person but if it's in a bad mood okay for example it doesn't flood or it floods too much you could die of Salvation or of drowning okay so it's very important for you a to for you to be able to control the moods of the Gods and that's what the pyramid is meant to do the Egyptian word for uh Egypt is KET which basically means Black Earth so the source of all life in Egypt is the soil right the back the Black Earth that's okay so let's go back to this quotation and now we can we can actually understand it in a different way right make your grave well furnished and prepare thy place in the west that's fine now look death counts little for us we're Gods we're pharaohs we will never die so we don't worry about death we don't have to worry about dying okay look life is valued highly by us what is life life are humans the Egyptian people our concern as pharaohs is for the well-being of the Egyptian people so that's our primary responsibility okay The House of the Dead the pyramid is for Life the pyramid is our Legacy to The Egan people it is our benevolence it is our generosity it is how we will make egyp Eternal and stable and prosperous okay so that's my theory of what the pyramid is it is really the Manhattan Project an attempt by the Pharaohs to bring Eternal peace okay any questions about this about this idea be before I elaborate on it and present the evidence for for it any questions about this you don't find you guys don't find this controversial what are you confused by anything do you want to challenge me before I present the evidence okay all right so let let me start presenting the evidence okay so um the first piece of evidence is again um Egyptian mythology all right so in is mythology and it's very different from other mythologies we'll study in the future like that of Mesopotamia the gods give everything to the people okay the people don't really do anything Rah gives life asaurus gives civilization Horus provides the kingship Okay so so the Egyptian understanding uh of the relationship with the gods is basically if they worship the gods good well enough the gods will always reward them okay so the idea that the the gods will make the people build tombs doesn't really make any sense okay it makes more sense the Pharaoh is helping the Egyptians a achieve Eternal Peace by inspiring them to build a the pyramid okay the second thing is um the architectural quality of the pyramid now there is a misconception a myth the pyramids were built by slaves they had slaves they used slaves but they never Ed slaves for religious purposes right because slave you can't really trust slaves so it was it was tens of Labor tens of FS of laborers who built the Pyramid together and it's a complete mystery to people how they're able to achieve such a miraculous building okay and so the answer is this let's think for about for the past Thousand Years the most impressive buildings in the world are usually churches temples MOS right so that just demonstrate the power of religious devotion in the Act of Creation so if if the Egyptians saw the pyramids as the ultimate Temple as the as bringing God on Earth you can imagine every one of them would work very hard in order to do their best does that make sense okay the third is the idea of the cult of the skull so around this time and throughout the world people practice an ancest worship so the way they did that usually is um maybe they have a ancestor who was what we guarded okay they would keep a skull around they would decorate with clay and Och her and they would use this skull as maybe a portal into the outer world to the spirit world in order to draw inspiration to draw good luck from this okay so the idea that they would use the pharaoh's body as a portal into the heavens is a very uh would be a very common idea at that time all right and then you have cave paintings so remember uh way back way early in the semester we looked at Ice Ice Age cave paintings Inside So these paintings inside caves and we discussed these paintings were a means of religious worship of bringing the spirit world into our world connecting the two okay in order to celebrate life and hunting okay then you have a place like go gole which is considered one of the earliest temples okay remember it is a religious Monument on top of a hill okay which would be also another way for you to connect our world with the heavens and for your worship draw Divine energy from the heavens so this in other words there's a pattern of humans trying to connect the spirit world with our world through religious worship and the pyramid represents the AL UL imate Temple does that make sense so so so the pyramid is a continuation of this sort of religious devotion and worship and religious practice okay all right okay um any questions before I move on okay so um now the last question is why did they stop in the pyramid and um there's a very good reason why they stopped building a pyramid because remember this pyramid was about creating Eternal peace pleasing the gods unifying the world right that's a theory the problem is this Theory doesn't work because in about 2200 BC CE so the 4.2 4.2 kiloyear event happened okay think of this as a mini ice age where for about 100 years there's a drought in Egypt well that's a problem right because the entire point of the pyramid why people sacrificed themselves so hard to work on the pyramid was to prevent a drought in Egypt right it was to control the Nile and they failed so this creates first of all a crisis of Faith okay a crisis of Faith many now are forced to reject their faith in the Pharaoh and now you see the rise of the priesthood okay and other gods as well so the first major reason why they stop building the pyramids is a question of Faith second problem is in order to build the pyramids you need a pyramid economy okay a pyramid economy and what the pent economy represents is centralized planning right centralization the pharoh and his Palace are able to coordinate all the resources of the state in order to create the pyramids we know that when when you have centralization you have three problems the first is inequality so if you're part of this plan economy you do very well for yourself okay but if you're not then you become poorer okay so inequality is a huge issue but you also a problem of corruption where people in the system um they want to steal because it's just easier to do okay and the third problem is just waste it's not very efficient so basically a pyramid the pyramid economy is just a complete waste of resources all right the third problem is this okay and this this is actually a much more okay this is a huge problem okay this idea of a NE nihilistic religious belief what this religious religious saying is life doesn't matter it's death that matters it's death that allows us to be like Gods to be Eternal right in order to ensure our Ascent into godhood one we have to be close to the Pharaoh okay we have to be loyal to the Pharaoh but two we have to ensure we obtain a lot of wealth in our life okay so basically what Egypt was doing during the pyramid economy was taking all its grain all its resources and then selling it overseas in order to bring back precious metals that they could put in their graves so that they could take with take these pressure bals go jewy into Afterlife with them okay so basically they were just taking all this tremendous wealth of Egypt almost unlimited wealth of Egypt and just squandering it gambling it away basically and the promise of an eternal afterlife and they didn't care about the here and now they didn't care about building a great nation they really wen't concerned about ensuring everyone was well off and prosperous and happy in a nation okay so you you had an elite who was concerned about abusing of power in order to steal as much money as possible in order to ensure a good afterlife okay and this is the three major major reasons why they stopped building the pyramids okay one because it's a question of Faith doesn't really work second is uh the centralization creates inequality corruption and waste and third is the religious belief can only lead to um the corruption of the state and tyranny okay so I answer those three questions any any any questions before I continue okay right so yeah that's a great Point okay so you're absolutely right that even though they sto building pyramids this civilization would go on for another 2,000 years and it was still for the majority of that a very prosperous stable nation that was basically the hegemon of the Western World okay um uh so this is the Old Kingdom that that that that's that's what they the Old Kingdom focused on building the pyramids but the Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom would also have a lot of Glory as as well so I I don't mean to negr uh their society okay I I'm I'm just pointing out some logical flaws in their society that will lead to their uh eventure will Decay because um even though uh the Old Kingdom will collapse the society is very resilient so as I said the Old Kingdom will will be replaced by the Middle Kingdom after large Civil War also they will make changes to society that will make Society much more stable and the major change is to take all the centralized powers of the Pharaoh and then devolve it into the priesthood and creating a priest to bureaucracy okay uh which is very much like the confusion bureaucracy in China um and they will also start importing new ideas from uh overseas so so I I apologize if I'm implying this that this is the end of Egypt it's not we after the oak Kingdom after stop the pyramids you will have a new flourishing of creativity and innovation in in Egypt that but but they stopped perceiving the pyramids as the n on be all whereas and the point the point I to make is during the Old Kingdom they did perceive the the pyramid as the manhan project okay they really thought if we build this thing then there will be Eternal peace and you can also make the argument the the um Israelites in the uh Bible make fun of make fun of them because there's a power the Tower of Babel story right the to the Tower of Babel story where um the humans are arrogantly trying to build a uh Tower up to heaven to be with God right and you can argue that that's what the pyramid is and God laughs at them and mocks them and they never succeed and then God punishes them by making them speak different languages okay right sure okay so so this is a great question okay what do the Egyptians remember about the Great Pyramid so har is was running about 400 BC okay and this about 2,000 years after the Great Pyramid and harus travels around Egypt and and he's a basically historian he's a journalist he wants to know how they built the Great Pyramid and what he discovers is the Egyptians don't know not only do they not know but they don't even know how to rebuild one okay if you ask the Egyptian in 400 BC can you build a pyramid they've lost an expertise okay and so um so so so so let me elaborate on this when when I talk about the pyramid economy me I'm talking about three things I'm talking about specialization right just massive specialization including how to carve Granite how to move Granite how to do measurements okay you have specialization going on then you have something called in in institutionalization which is basically creating a memory of this knowledge and you do that through by passing this on through your to your sons and your grandsons and to maybe in maybe in a guild or Workshop okay and then you also have systemization which is to say you have to bring all these pieces together okay so the pyramid economy was extremely complex because you need all three things to happen at the same time specialization industrialization and systematization you can also argue the man who created the system the parent economy his name is imot okay and he's revered in Egypt as a Divine figure okay he I mean he was a basically Grand visor to the Pharaoh um he was royalty but he was a man but he was able to contribute so much to Egypt that they defied him basically okay and you can argue like his major contribution was in creating this pyramid economy that are all three elements specialization intialization and systemization okay because it's actually very hard hard to put the pieces together you need writing a writing system you need um a financial system you need a lot a lot of elements okay I'm making this sound a lot easier than uh it really is okay so that's the first thing very complex second thing is remember for the Egyptians and for the Pharaoh the pyramids represented God on earth right so there has to be mystery and secrecy around the building of the pyramid right so as I said what makes the most sense is for them to build these models around the pyramid so that these working teams would know where to go at what time okay but after they build the pyramids it make sense for them to destroy all records in order to maintain a sense of divinity and inspiration right they're trying to create awe and fear and inspiration so they would not want for people to like know how to build a pyramids they would think this has to be a gift from God from the Pharaoh okay does that make sense okay but but that that's a great question thanks okay any more questions before I I move on okay that's a great question where was The Mummy of a okay so in this Theory you have to understand what matters is not the pyramid what matters is the body the Pharaoh right because it's a Pharaoh's body that's sickled in the vine so if that's s in the vine then you need a priesthood a cult of the Pharaoh to secure and take care of the body okay does that make sense so in other words um the there there had to be a team taking care of the pharaoh's body The Mummy and that to ensure first and foremost its safety okay so the Great Pyramid was part of a complex called the Giza complex so there actually two other pyramids and then around the pyramids are these tombs of people who worked for the Pharaoh but who were not Divine okay and you can make the argument what they're trying to do is create a constellation right because when you look at the Sky Stars don't travel by themselves they travel in constellations so makes sense for the Son and the grandson to be buried alongside curfew but as lesser dieties as lesser pyramids to to show the Egyptian people the harmony balance and Order of the of of the system okay and what's great about the system is it ensures loyalty of people working for the Pharaoh because if you're loyal you're granted a tomb around the Pharaoh which guarantees your Ascension into the Eternal afterlife so you could be eternally with the Pharaoh okay so this is a system of morality basically right so this is fine because there's lots of protections for the Pharaoh right he surrounded by many different uh systems but when um the system was breaking down it was clear that Egypt was um breaking to Civil War then the cult of the Pharaoh had a responsibility to take the body and place it somewhere that no one could find it right because again what matters in this system is that the pyramid what matters is the body the body is what gives the pyramids energy and power so they have to protect that part that body at all cost so the reason why we can't find the body is they made sure we couldnot find the body right because the body is the mechanism the portal by which the Pharaoh will resurrect himself if we have that then we control the Pharaoh we control God okay does that make sense so they must have a secret caves or places where they put these bodies and the purpose is to ensure they can never be found okay so great question thank you any more questions before I finish the class can you talk a little bit about how that support okay um so um what's inside the pyramid so first of all um the parents have been around for about 45 New Years um and uh to tomb rating was a huge problem right so what it was actually in the pyramids um we are not we we can't be sure about right because of time because of Tomb rating okay um we we didn't find that much inside the pyramid okay there were no pictures artwork there were very few hieroglyphics inside the Great Pyramid there are hieroglyphics and paintings and other pyramids okay but inside the great pyr we haven't found that much which I think gives even more Credence to my theory that this was meant to be a temple of worship okay and this is also why people believe it's a tomb because there's so few artwork if you if it was if it were a temple instead you would imagine it there would be a lot of artwork okay okay any more questions before I uh finish the class are you guys clear so far all right so I want to finish the class with a different question which is why is it like my interpretation is so radically different from the mainstream academic interpretation okay and I want to propose the way that our minds work today are rly different from the way that the minds of people like the Egyptians worked okay for three reasons today the Egyptian people had a preliterate mind they also had a pre uh science mind also pre capitalistic okay so let me explain preliterate is very simple it just means they didn't read and write they just spoke and we are taught the literate mind is more powerful than the oral mind but that's not true okay if you think about it the oral mind works through imagination the your mind um is capable of tremendous memory because back then in order to do anything you have to memorize a lot of information now we can just um go online right so their minds even though were preliterate they were much more imaginative than we are today and their memories were stronger that's why they were able to build a great pyramids because everyone was able to memorize the model and figure out his or her place inside the structure they were also able to imagine in their heads the Great Pyramid remember Homer and Virgil the way that children learn Homer and Virgil is by memorizing them okay and you can do that there are people today who memorize the Quran and who memorize the Torah okay it takes some time but you're able to do that so back then they were able to build the parent because they were able to visualize the pyramid in their minds and you can do that with a pre-literate mind okay second is the idea of pre- science so in today's world we science is our God okay so in in school you're taught the scientific method which is basically um you collect information then you synphase it then you write your thesis okay it's a step-by-step logical process but if you're if you're a pre-scientific mind then where do you get your ideas from you you you get your ideas through divine inspiration through God right so you can make the argument like back then they were capable of these Grand ideas that we're not cap capable of today because we're locked in by the discipline of science the other problem with science is it's very materialistic meaning we're focused on the here and now we're focus on what we can see as as opposed to what we feel or what we believe right so when we look at the pyramid we're always about what was built instead of like what were they feeling when they were building this and that's a huge difference the third difference is pre- capitalistic today we do things to make money we come to school because we want to get a job because we we want to make money to buy things okay it's a very utilitarian mindset but for most of human history most civilizations were not capitalistic they were religious they were focused on community they were focused on what they could contribute to the betterment of the people around them they were concerned about their relationship with God they were concerned about how to create peace in the world they're asking big questions like what is good and what is evil what is justice what is fairness what is Justice and so they were much more focused on building a pyramid as a way to build community and peace and Eternity on Earth okay so in other words what's interesting is even though we are much more technologically Advance we're much wealthier than the Egyptians we don't have the imagination we don't have the will to build something like the Great Pyramid again and that's why I think even today the Great Pyramid captures the imagination of so many people around the world because it's really beyond our own imagination it really shows the limitations of our own imagination right okay that's it any any questions okay yeah let's all be let's all be intuitive and pre science here yeah yeah okay um so this um begins a bron age okay this is this is part of the Bron age Egypt is the greatest civilization of the Bron age um next class we'll we'll look at Mesopotamia and the indis valley civilization okay so there are three great bronate civilizations Egypt uh Mesopotamia and in valy okay