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The pyramid as the maximal religious monument for bringing God or the spirit world onto earth.
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The pyramid as the maximal religious monument for bringing God or the spirit world onto earth.
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Jiang argues the pyramids were not built by slaves for religious purposes but by tens of thousands of laborers whose devotion could explain the quality of the ultimate temple.
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"...The most impressive buildings in the world are usually churches. Churches, temples, mosques, right? So that just demonstrates the power of religious devotion in..."
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"...a place like Gopalapetample, which is considered one of the earliest temples. Okay? Remember it is a religious monument on top of a hill...."
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"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..."
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"And the pyramid represents the ultimate temple. Okay? Does that make sense? So the pyramid is a continuation of this sort of religious devotion..."
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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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