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Object of the Shafts
Shaft: Underground communication connecting the
elements of a strengthened work. Techs. Gallery of weak section: ventilation shaft
(French Larousse Dictionary).
The role of a shaft is firstly a role of communication.
We already know for example that the Southern shaft of
the Queen Chamber was sealed by a stone tympanum of 8
centimetres at its low end, and by a stone door at its high end.
Assumption of human Communication:
20 centimetres by 20 do not allow the passage for a man
nor even for a child.
The voice cannot either be propagated on more than 60
meters with an 8 centimetres fence stone tympanum.
No visual or luminous communication are possible due to
the fact that the shaft is sealed and for the King Chamber,
the northern shaft for example is not rectilinear, one
cannot thus speak about of a star aiming system.
Assumption of Physical Circulation of a liquid or a
powder.
It would go to the bottom which was sealed since the
construction. The same for ventilation, the fact that the
ends are closed also eliminates this assumption.
Assumption of an architect means?
To check the stability of construction once in a while
one could imagine a sound emitted from the Queen Chamber by
striking the stone tympanum. This sound would be listened
after having opened the stone door in the part high. The
absence of propagation being able to mean crumbling or
rupture between the both. If I voice this assumption, it is
by defect because to tell the truth I do not think that the
manufacturers would have compelled with so complex
geometrical ratios, precise and constraining in their
implementation for this objective.
Assumption of worship or magic role for the dead?
(To be supposed that there was). For the same reasons as
what precedes, I don't believe in it.
Let us
examine the geometry of the shafts.
...which are not symmetrical for the King Chamber
whose vertical axis is shifted of 22 cubits but which
emerges on the same external level.
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For the Southern shaft of the Queen Chamber, the
robot Upuhaut measured an average slope of 39 degrees
and 60 hundredths i.e. 39 degrees and 36 minutes. The slope
of the external faces of the pyramid is approximately 51
degrees 25. The sum of both would be 90 degrees. Could we conclude
from this that the architectural will was to obtain
respectively perpendicular slopes or that is only the result
of the 7/9 implementation ratio with use of the grids of
construction? (In this case the angle would be of 89°
17 minutes).
But we can especially say that the slope of this shaft
which if it were prolonged would correspond in the same plan
with a point of the great descending shaft which would be
the origin of the right-angled triangle building the 7/9
ratio.
The Southern shaft of the King Chamber has a slope
of 45 degrees. It is not
neutral either. If this shaft were prolonged it would
correspond in the same plan to the same point of the great
descending shaft than the Southern shaft of the Queen
Chamber. It cannot be a chance. Even less if it is noted
that this point is straight above the low end of the Great
Gallery. . .
And for the Northern shaft of the King Chamber,
which corresponds to a slope of approximately 33 degrees 30
minutes (ratio 2/3), it will form an angle of 60 degrees with the great gallery
which have a 26 degrees 30 minutes slope. (The great gallery
was designed by using the ratio of 1/2 which generates an
absolute angle of 26 degrees and 33 minutes).
Finally, the line raised from the point of convergence
towards the Northern shaft of the King Chamber to the
intersection of the shaft with the vertical axis of the
pyramid will form an angle of 90
degrees. (Two axis using an identical
report/ratio, idly 2/3).
The Queen Chamber's northern shaft is not
rectilinear and was only partially explored but seems
symmetrical with the southern one and would also form an
angle of 90 degrees with the external slope of the
pyramid. (For this case, it is one assumption).
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The shafts were built
with great care and difficulties (and represent a
large quantity of work), and they are in particular
geometrical relations enters and with the other
elements of the pyramid. These exact relations
cannot be justified only by one ritual use or any
of the assumptions which are usually formulated
about their function.
Then?
Were these so
particular values of angles an objective or a consequence of the method used for the
concept?
In absence of
response about their role, they testify to a
perfect knowledge of the geometry and which more
is, of its architectural implementation whose
purity of the result has only corollary in the
complexity of the interactions. They fit perfectly
in what I call the mathematical
Cheops'concept
which uses only simple ratios,
This with a very easy
method of implementation.
This can be compared
with the use of the two grids which allow the whole
layout of the Giza plateau and which use only
the 5 first of the prime
numbers. . .
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USE OF THE SHAFTS
Updated February 20019
Many years of research devoted to Giza, enables me to propose a small hypothesis, unverifiable as it is, but which at least has the merit of justifying the existence and the role of these shafts in a rational and coherent way.
Why would not these shafts really be ventilation shafts?
I think we should consider not what they are today, but what they were during construction and their usefulness.
Consider the example of the Queen's Chamber.
When the Queen's Chamber was "open" or "uncovered" during the construction site, there was no problem with lighting or ventilation.
When it was covered, it was necessary to light up (Torches ?, any combustion?), And in such a volume the air would quickly become unbreathable for the workmen as well by the smoke as by the dust resulting from the work.
Leaving an open block, waiting, the hollow block, (Bloc évidé), there was an air renewal or evacuation.
As the level of elevation and filling of the pyramid increased, the sheath was extended.
When the distance of 100 cubits from the vertical plane of symmetry of the pyramid was reached with an altitude of 120 cubits as intended by the designers, a door, (Porte), which could be open only from the outside was placed, and the low end remained open without its hollow block.
Why?
Simply to allow ventilation until the end of the Queen's Chamber building.
In this situation it was necessary to allow, by the way of the closure of the door at the top end, that filling materials from the upper parts or that for example sand or rain water (this happens), can not enter and close the ventilation, then open it after.
Without this possibility of preserved access, one can easily imagine the enormity of work or impossibility that could represent the unblocking of a sheath closed by the sand several tens of meters from its orifice! ...
It may be noted that the upper opening of the southern sheath of the Queen's Chamber closed by a door is less than the level of the assembly formed by the King's Chamber so likely to be accidentally filled during work on it.
This may possibly explain that the shafts of the King's Chamber which open at an altitude higher than the discharge chambers, that is to say at the completed works, did not require and are the object of a simple filling of protection and not shutter.
... and that to reach the same distance of 100 cubits from the vertical plane of symmetry of the pyramid the slope ratio of 1/1 (45 degrees) is much easier than the 5/6 (39 ° 48'20 ") from the Queen's bedroom.
Note: Maragioglio and Rinaldi in the years 1964 had evaluated the slope at 38 ° 28 ', slope that the robot of Mr. Gantenbrink measured for 39 ° 48'20 ".
<- SOUTH The dimensions are expressed in Royal Bends equivalent to 0.5236 meters. NORTH ->
Once the queen's chamber was completely finished, the hollow block was then put in place by final insertion and sealing.
The end of the sheath is thus closed by the eardrum 8 centimeters constituted by the recess of the block.
The lower extremities, at a distance of 5 cubits from the wall of the east face at a height of 2.5 to 3 cubits, identical in the queen's chamber and the king's chamber, could, if necessary, be easily found.
What is the use of being able to maintain the functional shafts if necessary?
Nothing so far establishes that there were no interconnections with other places because, and this only binds me, if the called Secret Chamber exists, then it would not be unique. I will come back to this subject later.
...And nothing is impossible: For example,the apartments of the pyramid of Djoser, even remodeled in time, are they not looking like a "Château de Gruyère"?
Indispensable Shafts!
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