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The accepted tomb theory treats the pyramid as a resurrection machine, but Jiang argues the missing bodies inside pyramid sarcophagi create a major logical problem for that theory.
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The accepted tomb theory treats the pyramid as a resurrection machine, but Jiang argues the missing bodies inside pyramid sarcophagi create a major logical problem for that theory.
Jiang says the tomb theory morally misreads Egyptian divine kingship because it implies the Pharaoh came to earth to make the people serve his private death project, while Egyptian gods are imagined as benefactors of humanity.
Jiang's third objection to tomb theory is practical: if a pyramid takes decades to build, a Pharaoh whose afterlife depends on it cannot know he will live long enough to complete it.
Egyptian mythology supports Jiang's interpretation because Ra gives life, Osiris civilization, and Horus kingship; gods rewarding worship fits better than gods forcing people to build private tombs.
The sparse contents of the Great Pyramid support Jiang's temple-of-worship theory, though he acknowledges the same lack of artwork is also why some people read it as a tomb.
"And so the theory is, this pyramid is designed to ease the Pharaoh's transition into the heavens where he would become a star or..."
"For this to be a tomb, this implies that the Pharaoh, because the Pharaohs are divine, right? They are basically the emanation of God..."
"And then Horus, the son of Osiris, gave the institution of kingship to Egypt. Okay, so these gods come to earth in order to,..."
"So that's our primary responsibility, okay? The house of the dead, the pyramid, is for life. The pyramid is our legacy to the Egyptian..."
"The people don't really do anything special. Ra gives life, Osiris gives civilization, Horus provides the kingship, okay? So the Egyptian understanding of the..."
"Okay. So what's inside the pyramid? So first of all, the pyramids have been around for about 4,500 years. And tomb raiding was a..."
"...in this, because this is actually much more plausible than the tomb theory. But the problem with this, of course, is it doesn't work..."
A source-grounded reading of the Great Pyramid as Egypt's Manhattan Project: a divine battery, a state economy, and a wager that a sacred body could control the Nile, unify Egypt, and make peace eternal.
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