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Part 1. References to the Earth's Axis

in Ancient Egypt?

Whilst doing research into my discovery that the Great Pyramid contains encoded information about the geophysics of the earth's axis, I made the amazing 'bonus' discovery that the angle of 23.5º had been deliberately encoded in numerous different sources throughout history.

  Its one thing to find this angle for the first time in the geometrical structure of the Great Pyramid, but to find this same angle having been deliberately encoded over and over again in works of art, sculpture, architecture, symbolism, etc., along with the angle of 52 degrees (which happens to be the angle of the inclined sides of the Great Pyramid) is quite staggering.

For the sake of balancing the argument and to try to prove myself wrong, it is a fact that 22.5 degrees is also a common angle used in art for perspective, as 22.5º is one sixteenth of a 360º circle.

  I mention this so that others would be aware of this and could perhaps use this in their argument and so test this themselves if interested. However, I must point out that I have examined many paintings, and have found that although some of the overall 'perspective features' in some paintings are in the 'right ball-park' and could therefore be associated with the 22.5º angle of perspective to support this given fact, I have found that many suspect features, such as staffs, poles, flagpoles, spears, lances, clubs, bones, limbs, swords and other linear objects, are definitely at an angle of 23.5º or even 23 degrees - especially certain linear items or features in well-known Masonic symbols and of course esoteric symbolism - and especially those we find in highly symbolic paintings portraying mystical or religious themes.

  Furthermore, although very close, the angle of 23.5º is not mentioned as having anything to do with the common angles of perspective, so the many references to this angle must mean something else - and for the time being, the obliquity of the earth's axis, which at present is 23.43º , but is often referred to as being 23.5º in the text books, is the main contender for me.

I would like to thank Don Barone for providing me with some fabulous examples of art that demonstrate this fact - i.e., that the 23.5º angle is endemic. After first alerting Don to these 23.5º references on the website Messageboard of author Graham Hancock, Don began measuring the paintings himself and made a few amazing discoveries of his own which I will also show in this article - all credit for the examples Don has since discovered going to him.

  We will begin with the references made to this angle discovered recently in Ancient Egyptian art.

Djed Column

The Tet, Tat, Didu or Djed Column - also known as the "Tree of Degrees" - represented the phallus of the creator god; also the 'cosmic axis', or shamanic axis mundi, (Tree of Life) and also the backbone or spinal cord of the god Osiris and therefore both the earth's axis and the human axis.

  In a fairly recent book, Catastrophobia (2001), author Barbara Hand Clow, brings attention to a wall painting in the Temple of Abydos which shows the ‘Raising of the Djed’. There are two illustrations, a tilted Djed and an upright Djed.

  The tilted Djed, as shown below, is within one degree of the 23.5º tilt angle - or rather close to 23º – being the present angle of the earth’s axis.

  Clow uses these images to support her own theory that the earth was once upright but that it had become tilted due to some global catastrophe perhaps involving a comet. Her theory is based on recent data provided by geoscientists Allan and Delair in their book Cataclysm: Compelling Evidence of a Cosmic Catastrophe in 9500 BC (1997).

  From the references given to this angle which I had first discovered in the structure of the Great Pyramid, I am seriously considering the same theory - i.e., that the earth may have been upright at one time, or that it was/is believed by certain people that this was once a reality. It certainly appears that this is exactly what we are being told in these many encoded references given to the angle of 23º or 23.5 degrees - both in relation to the side angles of the Great Pyramid and the many mythical, allegorical and historical, textual references in regard to the vertical position being the 'ideal' as we see here in the 'raising of the Djed' - using one example.

  Could this ancient ritual or ceremony reflect man's wish to align the earth, and with it himself, back to the vertical - believed to have been tthe natural position of the earth and one that was once a reality? 

  If so, then perhaps there is more to the tragic myth of Osiris then we realise. These are just some of the many themes I will be presenting in my book Axis of God.

The Dendera Serpents

Below is an Ancient Egyptian scene from the Temple of Hathor at Dendera. Some 'alternative history' theorists have said that the ovoid objects containing wavy snakes or serpents, which are resting on tilted Djed columns, are perhaps ancient lightbulbs or "cathode-ray tubes" powered through cables of some kind which are attached at the bottom by sockets.

  Writer and ancient-astronaut theorist, Erich Von Daniken, seriously suggests that the snakes are "lightbulb filaments" and the Djeds are "insulators". As we can see the so-called "sockets" are really open Lotus flowers.

I tend to agree with John Anthony West, who describes the meaning of the reliefs in his book The Traveler's Key to Ancient Egypt, p. 402

'The splendid but enigmatic reliefs of the crypt are cosmogonical and depict the serpent (dualizing principle underlying all creation:

  In Genesis the separation of heaven and earth) borne aloft by the lotus, the symbol of creation as a manifestation of consciousness'.

If we are talking about Duality here, and in terms of 'serpents', then its not too much of a leap to see the correspondence this interpretation makes with the two serpents of the Caduceus staff - a symbol which came sometime later - and therefore the Kundalini Chakra system which the Caduceus staff actually symbolises. In India, the Lotus is a symbol for the Chakra - i.e., the seven Chakra vortices that align the human spine, each associated with one of the body's seven endocrine glands.

  The open-armed Djed of Osiris, which is shown supporting these serpents, is also a symbol for 'power', and if the above correspondences are correct then we could interpret 'Serpent Power'.

  Click here for a more realistic interpretation which accords with my own theories.

  In any case, whatever these objects are - and its still open to debate - they are leaning at 23.5º from the horizontal - and the Djed columns, and the small figure kneeling next to the first Djed, are leaning at 23.5º from the vertical. 

Below is another interesting image from ancient Egyptian art showing and Egyptian goldsmith workshop c. 1900 BC.

  Again, we are given a reference to the angle of 23.5º whether deliberately or coincidental. As a novelty the legs are bent at 52º - as pointed out to me by friend and fellow researcher Claude Courvoisier.

Although it would be right to say that the examples given above are hardly enough to constitute a theory, or an attempt at some explanation as to why this angle is being referenced, I have only just begun. I will be posting more examples from ancient Egypt here over the coming months, and if we continue on, there are more spectacular examples to show that we are dealing with a real phenomenon here . . . a code that reaches far back into the mists of time and one that is ultimately pointing to the Great Pyramid and Giza, and for a profound reason.

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