Pharaoh built his mausoleum into a pyramid. What is the relationship between pyramid of khufu and Orion?

The pharaohs of ancient Egypt built the mausoleum into a pyramid because they regarded the pyramid as a ladder to the eternal kingdom, and the towering pyramid symbolized the ascension of the soul. Most pyramids have two passages. When archaeologists study pyramid of khufu, the largest pyramid in the world, it is considered as a ventilation duct. It was not until recent years that archaeologists discovered that it was actually related to Orion.

The relationship between pyramid of khufu and Orion

The ventilation tunnel to Orion.

Different from the pyramids of the same period, the passage in pyramid of khufu is very special. At present, there are four straight ventilation pipes in pyramid of khufu, one of which leads from the king's secret room to the outside, pointing to Alpha Orion 4600 years ago. At that time, Dragon Alpha was just in the position of today's North Pole Star, and the star revolved around it. On the other hand, Khufu and his former Egyptian pharaohs considered themselves sun gods. The moral of the North Passage may be that the veteran bomber will live forever, shine with the stars and continue to be surrounded by them. Nantong Road points to one of Orion's famous "three stars".

In ancient Egypt, Orion represented Osiris, the god in charge of life and death and reincarnation. Its religious implication is that it is hoped that Pharaoh and Osiris will take charge of the human solar terms and make them last forever. The three largest pyramids, headed by pyramid of khufu, not only correspond to the "three stars on the belt" in position, but also show the different luminosity of the three stars through the size of the pyramids.

In addition, if the Great Pyramid is aimed at the belts of three stars in Orion, then five of the seven pyramids in the fourth dynasty just correspond to the positions of the other five stars in Orion. It is particularly mysterious that if we compare this map of the sky, the position of the Milky Way in the sky just corresponds to the Nile in Egypt. Corresponding to the celestial migration of Orion in pyramid of khufu, the Milky Way and Nile are symmetrically distributed around the horizon.

In addition, it is worth noting that pyramid of khufu is no longer targeting Orion, because the earth is constantly rotating, and the earth is constantly changing, and Orion has an unknown change with the rotation of the earth. Today, the latitude of pyramid of khufu is about 30 degrees north latitude, the ventilation duct faces due south, and the altitude is about 45 degrees, which means that it points to the celestial sphere near south latitude 15 degrees, and the belt of Orion is located near the equator of the celestial sphere. The latitude of the celestial sphere is between zero degree (i.e. the equator of the celestial sphere) and minus two degrees (slightly south), so when it moves to the south of the pyramid, the observed elevation angle is about 60 degrees, which is about 15 degrees different from the direction of the ventilation duct. So the pyramid channel will not always face Orion. On the contrary, it accurately pointed to Orion at a specific observation time.