THE SECRETS OF THE PYRAMIDS
Written by Konstantinos Konstantinidis Amphiktyon We all know about the pyramids of Egypt and many of us have visited them. However, we do not know some secrets that the pyramids diligently hide. Our country also has pyramids that are considered older than the Egyptian ones The most famous is the "Pyramid of Hellinikon" next to the ancient road that connected Argos with Tegea. The researcher Pausanias (2nd century AD) does not mention the pyramid in Argolis, near today's Ligourio. They took their name from "Fire" the flame that ends in a nose. Homer does not mention the Pyramids of Egypt. Therefore, they are considered newer than that. Kings built them as impressive monuments and to be buried there. But for fear of tomb robbers, Hembis and Kephrin ordered that they not be buried there but elsewhere in secret. It is said that in one of them, the courtesan Rodopis from the her lovers [She was from Thrace and a slave of the Samian Iadmon or Idmon, whose Aesop was, and she was taken there by a Samian to work in a brothel as a courtesan. Sappho's brother Charaxus freed her and gave her a lot of money to return to her homeland. She was extremely beautiful and addicted to the secluded life of a courtesan, she acquired great fame and a lot of money, but not enough to build a pyramid. This luxury prostitute donated a tenth of her money to Delphi to make durable spits for roasting cattle. I saw this custom in Germany when they roasted calves. After this, Rhodopis served as an official concubine of the city of Naucratis, the notorious Archdike, and she was a concubine, inferior to Rhodopis. Finally, it is said that the king of Memphis married her]This work was completed in ten years,i
100,000 people were required to work, who changed every three months. In addition to the above, they also smoothed the hill on
which the pyramid was built because it was rough and uneven. They brought the materials up
to the hill whose height was a hundred feet (each foot 32.2 cm = 32.2 m) higher
than the surface of the Nile. They dug an underground
excavation to bury the Pharaoh there and created an artificial island for the
waters of the Nile to enter. After the preliminary constructions, the
construction of the greatest Pyramid of Cheops began. 360,000 people worked on its
construction and it was completed in twenty (20) years. It was square. The length of each side was
eight (8) plethrons (plethron 30m =8x30=240m) Diodorus says that the width of
the side was seven plethrons and the height was six plethrons (180m) One
thousand six hundred talents of silver were spent only on the garlic, radishes
and onions that the workers ate (160x26,000 grams per talent. In 2017, based on
the value of 547 dollars per kilogram, the silver talent is worth 14,113
dollars. Today the value of silver has risen.) These are written at the base of
the pyramid. According to Herodotus, the
stones for the interior and exterior masonry were more than thirty (30) feet in
length. I will not bore you with construction details, I will only tell you
that the lifting of the materials was done with steps. The work of raising the
materials to the upper steps was very difficult. The stones were marble from
white marble from the mountains of Arabia. The paradox is that they left
no traces of the chipping of the stone and wood in the environment. Perhaps they say that the
Nile, which was diverted for this purpose, took them, or the workers themselves
cleaned everything up. The interior of the pyramids
is a square chaos with a volume of 2,400,000 cubic feet. The entrance is a small square
a little more than three feet high. Cheops was buried in this
pyramid. He also had a daughter and
because he wasted his money on the construction of the pyramid, he put his
daughter in a brothel with a fixed fee. But she overestimated her fee,
forcing the customers to bring a stone. With them, she also built her
own smaller pyramid, each side of which had one and a half plethrons. [Think
about how intensively she worked as a courtesan] Her pyramid is located between
the three and in front of the large one. [ The courtesans of antiquity were of
two types 1/ in the majority they were slaves, without rights, who with great
difficulty maintained themselves in life! In a male-dominated society,
as at that time, this was the rule with few exceptions. 2/ The luxury courtesans. They belonged to the “upper”
class. At that time, the courtesans
themselves were an essential part of bourgeois society. It was not about the rapid
satisfaction of men's biological needs, but about the most demanding
recreational eroticism. The Geishas of Japan also
belonged to this type of partners. In the banquets where
respectable women were not allowed to enter, along with food, drink and
philosophical dialogues, dancing, singing and games took place. This was the main field of
action of the partners, who offered their entertainment, with discussions,
spectacle, jokes and finally with sexual communication. Since, therefore, the door to
public life was hermetically closed to the wives and daughters of citizens, the
partners as companions, companions and teammates took on the role of the
substitute wife! In conclusion, we would say
that the institution of the courtesan was characterized by high-quality
prostitution, wealth (in some cases), high, usually, education and delicate
erotic disposition, which separated her from the standard and established
concept of a prostitute. Famous courtesans of the time
were Aspasia, the wife of Pericles, Thais, Phryne, etc. in China, Su Xiaoxiao
(4th century AD) in France, Madame Du Barry, the last mistress of the French
king Louis XV, who had a tragic end in the guillotine. ] Kheop was succeeded by
Khafre, a tyrant and oppressor like his predecessor, who also built a Pyramid
on the hill, slightly smaller next to the large one. This one did not have an
underground structure like the other. Both reigned in Egypt for
fifty years each. During their reigns the
Egyptians were deprived of temples, festivals, sacrifices, everything. They worked constantly like
helots and therefore they hated these works and despised them as well as the
names of the pharaohs. In Epirus,
Mykerinus, son of Cheops, reigned, who opened
the temples again, the festivals and sacrifices and the people breathed a sigh
of relief. And he built the third
Pyramid, smaller than that of his father. Others say that it is of
Rhodope, but Herodotus denies this.
Then reigned Asychis who built the most beautiful and luxurious propylaea of the temple of Hephaestus to the east. He built a pyramid of bricks in contrast to his predecessors who used Arabian marbles. Maurice constructed the eponymous lake and in the middle of it he built two pyramids. In reality, this lake was a wealth-producing facility for breeding and collecting fish from the Nile, because it had two inlets and outlets for water to the river. Travelers found about forty pyramid ruins, but the five (5) are the most famous, those between Memphis and the Nile. According to Strabo, two of them are among the seven wonders of the world. The architects and builders of the pyramids and the purpose for which they were built are uncertain, as are the kings and their chronology. (28/4/25)
* Amphiktyon, Major General, former
Konstantinos Konstantinidis Author, Member of the Society of Greek Writers
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