What was their political purpose?

What was their political purpose?

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Ego, swedebro.

Kings.

Egypt-historianfag here. No bullshit, to honor dead God-Kings/Pharaohs that came before.

To hold psychedelic rituals

They were not monuments to show rivals how great Egypt was?

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I know, I was just as shocked as you were to find out that wasn't the case.

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More interesting is why was there pyramids in Egypt and mesoamerica. why was the pyramid chosen by both civilisations? for what purpose is the pyramid a superior structure to any other. pyramids in Egypt to bury the dead whereas pyramids in mesoamerica where used for sacrificial rituals.

Would explain Pharoh inbreeding, tho.

ancient egypt was a theocracy and the head of state was the head of the religion, obviously. so there's no separation from their political/propaganda purpose, and their ritual purpose. the notion that they were used for ritual and not just as tombs is supported by their insane acoustic properties, which i won't describe here but are easy to research. suffice it to say that there would be no point in designing (via trial and error, because it's not like there was a science of acoustics back then) a set of rooms with that kind of reverberant quality unless you intended to get up to some ritual in them.

if the great pyramids were just giant "look how big my mummified penis is" tombs, why did pharaos after the fourth dynasty not try to top them?

>tfw people will still be asking pyramid questions in 902304982304982 years time because we'll never truly know

> for what purpose is the pyramid a superior structure to any other

It was big, tall and built out of stone that lasts for thousands of years.
Obviously, wood or other degradable material was used for building as well, but those rotted away.

Once you stop thinking in conspiracy, things tend to become clearer.

>if the great pyramids were just giant "look how big my mummified penis is" tombs, why did pharaos after the fourth dynasty not try to top them?

You tell us.

From an engineering standpoint it makes perfect sense. A pyramid is just a really easy way to build a massive, structurally sound building. There's no simpler and better way to build a big ass structure other than stacking blocks into a pyramid, it makes sense that many early civilizations figured it out and used that method.

I wasn't talking about the materias, I was talking about the shape, why a pyramid, what made two different civilisations both come up with the idea to use that specific shape, why not square? why not rectangle? because of the ease of construction? is a pyramid easier to build ?

*materials

South American pyramids have four sides, the Egyptian have three.

It is just essentially stacking building materials on top of each other.

...because subsequent dynasties didn't have the technology. They built bigger monuments, but they didn't understand how to build reverberant chambers. Without those, massive pyramids are pretty pointless from a ritual POV and you might as well stick to stuff like Karnak, which certainly sufficed to overawe peasants and visiting foreigners.

That looks like much longer than 2000 years ago

wouldn't pharohs go into temples and shrines that had older pharoh satues and replcaes the statues heads with those of theri own?

There you go.

Food storage units (grain) or gas chambers

Monuments of pride and honor

It was the unexpected tomahawk missile strike of 2500 bc

it's a contemporary art to demonstrate their management and technological abilities.

You burgers do the same, Manhattan's purpose is to demonstrate you are the kangz.

Honestly it's not even that impressive

obviously that's not how it originally looked. that's 4000 years of wear and tear.

years*

These were already ancient 2000 years ago. Think about that.

How is that not impressive? You know how old it is, right?

just a pile of rocks!!!

No technology

Shaping the desert landscape was all they could do.

it actually is, the inside is even better

none, they are naturally occurring formations. just like all life.

organize a herd of people into a workforce troops requires a lot of technology. you can't pull this trick with your niggers.

To Egyptians life didnt end when you died. The pyramids were basically a worldly effort to carry some of your favor into the afterlife. Basically, the bigger and more intricate your monuments, your pyramid, and your sacrifices in this world, the better you start off with in the next.

Very similar to the idea of inheritance and passing property/wealth down to future generations today

Jews fed them ideas of gods (and whipped them good)

probably because its four thousand years old.

They were built by the nephilim to honor Azazel (Satan).

Meant to be the nigger point of view

Grain silo's

To spark racial debates thousands of years later

They are easily "stacked" and very structurally sound. Similar to how Romans and Assyrians used the arch. If your goal is a "forever" monument, it better be strong AF

No, that would have been their version of heresy, and would get you nothing but punishment when you met Osirus

Muslims destroyed the outer stones to use them.
The pyramids were beautiful.

Ancestor worship before it got corrupted into afterlife worship and subverted into polytheistic Satan worshiping

Yup, they were supposed to reflect the sun an shiet

Are you fucking retarded? There's a guy there for scale and everything, they're absolutely titanic in scale

Their purpose may have just been as ancient textbooks to last through the eras basically. There is information encoded in the pyramid's architecture about the Earth and there are historical accounts stating that when it had its original coating of white stones that encased the great pyramids were completely inscribed with language. And we'll basically never know what else the pyramids were meant to carry as a message through the ages because they were ransacked to rebuild Cairo and shit.

job creation

Largest two pyramids were possibly built by extra terrestrials as part of a spacecraft landing beacons and for defense. There were no pharaohs buried inside. The advanced technological components were removed when ETs left. The hypothesis and supporting proof is explained in Sitchin's books.

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