The Orion Mystery: Unlocking the Secrets of the Pyramids by Robert Bauval & Adrian Gilbert

Author:Robert Bauval & Adrian Gilbert
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub, pdf
Tags: Non-Fiction, Reference, Science, converted from EPUB by gnv64, Religion, History
ISBN: 9780517884546
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Published: 1994-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The title 'son of Ra' may have been used by a

pretender who claimed direct descent from the head

of the 'father' of the Heliopolitan pantheon of gods,

the Great Ennead, to gain supremacy over any

pretender claiming to be the son of Osiris.

Oddly enough, this seems to be confirmed by the

Westcar Papyrus.30 In 1947, Edwards drew attention

to this mysterious document, which reveals the story

of the coming to power of the first three kings of the

Fifth Dynasty, as seen by the Ancient Egyptians

themselves. 31 Two of these, Sahura and Neferirkara,

built their pyramids at Abusir.

V The 'Triplets' of a Priestess

The Westcar Papyrus has preserved an ancient legend

concerning the creation of the Fifth Dynasty which,

we are told, came about when a high priestess of

Heliopolis was seeded by Ra, the sun god.32 This was

a typical ploy used when a dynastic change or coup

was in the making. For example Olympias, the

mother of Alexander the Great, claimed that Zeus

Ammon had made love to her, making her son the

ultimate contender to the throne of Macedonia and

Greece; 33 Caesar claimed a descent from Venus,

generatrix.34 Divine intervention in matters of

dynastic disputes was an easy way to sway the

credulous populace to believe a shaky or even

illegitimate claim to the throne. A 'miraculous' birth

was always effective and as late as the seventeenth

century in Europe they were still going strong. Louis

XIV of France for example was said to have been

conceived miraculously,35 when after twenty-six

years of sterile union between Louis XIII and Anne of

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