Artist's impression of how the pyramids at the Giza plateau would have looked shortly after completion.
They do this because they know that such a debate will inevitably create the possibility of understanding human history differently, or correctly, while also changing how we view the present, especially its main actors in the dominant culture.
This is what's being prevented from happening.
The fact starting such a debate is avoided is actually quite easy to see. I have heard several attempts by westerners to explain how, for instance, the great pyramids were built, that range from laser wielding aliens to giants, never the fact that it was human beings who developed highly advanced technologies that allowed them to build and create the way they did. The latest film on this subject is probably the best attempt at this. It is titled K2019 and it's available to watch on YouTube.
The striking thing about this 3 hour film is how it is at pains to avoid the clear hints it makes itself at the obvious existence of highly advanced technologies. Instead of following through with the implications, it tries desperately to shove the idea the pyramids were the product of a highly observant and creative folk who were hard workers albeit simpletons into our heads.
But take for instance the mere mention of a solstice, and what precise knowledge of this phenomenon says about a culture's level of technological advancement.
It is possible to gradually come to the understanding that you live on a globe that rotates around a sun by mere observation of the sun, the moon, the stars, etc. But it is not as clear cut to know that there is a tilt in the planet's axis that is responsible for the seasons. It is even harder to know where the equator is positioned and how far you are from it. You cannot make these calculations by mere observation of celestial bodies. Knowing that the sun stops in its northward or southward journey on a certain wintry or summer's day, and that it takes three days for a reversal of direction to be complete isn't enough. You need advanced technology to provide the data that enables you to know as much as there is to know about a solstice, and the ancient Egyptians had this technology. This is the only reason why they knew exactly what a solstice is, why, and on what latitude it occurs
It is easy to know how a planet rotates around a star/sun if you are observing it from a distance, not when you are sitting on it. It is easy to know that the planet is tilted on its axis when you are observing it from afar, but not when you are standing on it. It requires serious observation of the surrounding bodies, the seasons and cycles, to know of a tilt to the axis of the planet you are standing on, but it is even harder to use distant planets and stars to measure the tilt, let alone know the dimensions of the planet you are on or where you are on its surface.
You can know of the tilt and its angle but you need a mirror reflection of your planet or, better yet, you need to be able to observe it yourself from up high, to see and measure the other details that are near impossible to know by mere calculations from observation. You will then be able to gather such data as your distance from the true north or geodetic north (as opposed to magnetic or celestial north), the planet's circumference, the distance from the equator to the north and south pole, etc.
You cannot make a monument that is a scale down replica of a hemisphere, such as the great pyramid of Khufu is certified to be, by observations made of celestial bodies while you are restricted in movement to your home or country.
You cannot align such a monument to the true north of a planet that's tilted on its axis by studying the angle at which sunlight hits your village if the size of the planet and its real shape is unknown to you. You may observe that the moon is a near perfect sphere and not know that your planet is oval, which could make your calculations wrong.
Ancient Egypt knew everything I have said about the earth above, and more. They had measured the circumference of the planet already and though their North was our South, they knew how far they were from it. They already knew exactly where kemet was on the planet, which isn't a reality they could calculate. They had to have seen their country from up high.
Kemet had to have highly advanced technologies that made them more empowered than they are made out to be by the dominant culture, that must have enabled them to take to the skies and circumvent this globe, to be able to achieve much of what they did. This cannot be denied, including the fact most of this technology was more advanced than what exists today, or this culture is capable of making.
But, strangely enough, they destroyed it all.
In fact they obliterated it in a highly organised manner, erasing with this all mention of this technology in text or monument, just as they would erase from history an era of mis-rule, and just why they did this is a debate that we need to initiate to understand where we are coming from, where we are, and where we are going.
My take on this is that it was in most probability fear of what these technologies could be used for if they fell into the wrong hands that drove the wise ancients to the decision to erase them from existence. A look at the current dominant culture and the destruction it has wrought with an advancement built on knowledge gained from the very ancient Egypt shows us very clearly what the ancient Egyptians were afraid of.
Imagine where humankind would be today if a warlike culture that finds its sustenance in raids on neighboring groups had gained access to atomic bomb or gene modification technology in 2000 BC. Would anything be left of humankind or this planet today?
Most probably not.
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