- Opinions vary as to who built the Cheops Pyramid. Contemporary
historians still debate who the architects were. Herodotus, 440 BCE, suggested
twenty years of construction. The largest slab of stone is estimated to
weigh in at seventy tons; said tonnage equates to one hundred forty thousand
pounds, (140,000) Visualize, if you will, an object the size of four tractor-trailers
in a row, or two on top of each other. State of the art, mammoth-construction
equipment to this day cannot lift this enormous weight off the ground,
let alone transport it any distance.
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- Slave labor is the most common conjecture in addressing
this question. Thousands upon untold thousands of slaves toiled relentlessly
to build this edifice. Thousands of others were dispatched to Northern
Italy and Germany to transport back the hardwoods from their respective
forests. Thousands of slaves dragged the slabs across the sands from quarries
hundreds of miles away to their present resting place. Another offering
is of biblical content. It accounts that the walls of Jericho were leveled
by mighty blasts of sounds from trumpets. Some speculate usage of sound
by the adepts of that era to levitate the heavier slabs, if not all of
them. Tibetan monks in the mid 1980's were reported to lift mighty boulders
from their resting places and levitate them up hillsides and cliffs and
gently nudge them into place on outcroppings or ledges. Chanting and musical
instruments peculiar to their land were utilized in this endeavor.
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- UFOlogists, especially those with a strong Metaphysical
background, postulate that Extraterrestrials came forth. The ETs interacted
with the ancients in a time period long before the inhabitants of whom
we assume had actually built the Cheops Pyramid about five thousand years
ago. Authors have offered that these secrets of levitation were left with
the ancients, but that over time the knowledge of these capabilities were
lost due to warfare or natural disasters. Coupled with that, some writers
have put forth the age-old practice of elitists keeping secrets just for
themselves; thus, in that singular process, losing it due to attrition
of the inner-core group. I would most respectfully propose an Olympic Pyramid
Construction Contest; said contest would involve only one slab; that, of
course, being one weighing seventy tons. Equipment used would be exactly
what was available five thousand years ago to the architects. Wooden sleds,
pulleys, cranes, "derricks," sledgehammers, hammers and spikes
as would have been used in that era. Ropes would have to be made of raw
materials to harness these monolithic slabs, be it of fleece and/or fiber.
Five continents would assemble their respective Olympic Continental Teams.
The suggested five teams are purely for safety reasons. We really shouldn't
have a traffic jam of dozens of teams out on the quarry.
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- These five Olympic Continental Teams would retire to
the quarries that gave up the slabs millenniums ago. The teams would quarry
out just one seventy-ton slab, lift it up and hoist it away from its womb
and gently set it down on to the wooden sled awaiting it. Or, it would
be lowered down to hundreds of logs that were laid down side by side; in
reality creating a rolling road. As the team members pulled mightly on
the ropes, other team members would be poised at the back of the slab in
order to pluck up the logs and carry them to the front of the slab. Thus,
in this fashion, they would have a continuous availability of logs for
the slab to be pulled along on. (Numerous authors have cited this method
over the decades as an actual means of transportation.) If Herodotus were
correct with his twenty-year time frame, then this Olympic Pyramid Contest
entailing the quarrying out, lifting up, hoisting over, setting down and
then transporting the seventy-ton slab to the immediate neighborhood of
the Cheops Pyramid would be most revealing.
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- Mathemations, time-efficiency experts, Egyptionologists,
sociologists and road-building engineers can be drawn together to act as
Olympic Judges. They would lend of their knowledge and experiences to extrapolate
from the findings gleaned from the eventual accomplishment of transporting
this one lil ole' slab to close proximity to the Cheops Pyramid. The Olympic
Judges would have the time taken, the weight of the slab and the number
of those on the Continental Team. Could the construction have been accomplished
in twenty years? Would the consensus of the Olympic Judges regarding the
time consumed in transporting this one lil ole' slab declare that it would
have taken a much longer time? What would that suggest, if anything?
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- However, if the movement of this seventy-ton slab anywhere
near the Finish Line by the Cheops Pyramid cannot be accomplished by any
of the five Continental Teams, then that opens up a plethora of questions.
Perhaps you, dear reader, may want to ponder upon the potential scenarios
that can be brought forth from such queries.
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- For those of you who are so inspired to forward this
article, together with a either a note or cover letter from you as to your
feelings or opinions, please do so to the following:
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- l) International Olympic Committee, Chateau de Vivy,
CH 1007, Lausanne, Switzerland Attention: Sports Program Committee (Estimated
cost per ounce is eighty cents for a regular-size envelope from the USA;
square envelopes cost more.)
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- 2) United States Olympic Committee, Interim President,
Mr. William C. Martin, One Olympic Plaza, Colorado Springs, Colorado USA
80909
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- 3) United States Olympic Committee, Mr. Arthur Rizer,
I. P. Technologies, 1880 Office Club Point, Colorado Springs, Colorado,
USA 80920
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- 4) United States Olympic Complex, Public Relations, One
Olympic Plaza, Colorado Springs, Colorado USA 80909
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- (Note: I have always been a firm believer in cc (carbon
copies). Hence, why not correspond with all of the above mentioned!) .
One wonders if this simple exercise in an Olympian contest would be revealing
to humanity's understanding and comprehension of our role in this particular
quadrant of this, our lil ole' solar system. Some UFOlogists foresee the
inevitability of First Contact occurring within a decade or two. This proposed
Olympic Pyramid Building Contest would surely focus attention to not only
our Earthling Heritage but should also prepare the masses for paradigm
shifts. Paradigm Shifts Galore! Indeed, such self-instituted shifts could
be softened considerably with our consciousness being raised higher and
higher.
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- The origin and purpose of the Olympics was to bring different
peoples together for sporting competion; such gatherings meant to better
acquaint ourselves with each other. Thus, in those peaceful games, it was
hoped that such acquaintanceship and knowledge of each other would reduce
warfare.
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- Perhaps, just perhaps, it might even make us less warlike
with each other's continents if we pursued a Cheops Pyramid Building Contest.
Most respectfully submitted.
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- May the Source be with you,
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- Bill Winkler,
Colorado, USA
Copyright 2003
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- About Bill: Psychic, UFOlogist, lecturer, Events Organizer
and Director of UFO Connections of Pueblo, Colorado.
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