Pyramid

Egyptian religion · Nile valley

• Pyramid appears in Giza.

  The Giza plateau holds the famous Old Kingdom pyramids. The place is a cemetery; the silhouette later travelled without the burial.

  from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

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• Pyramid belongs to Egyptian religion.

  Pyramids are Old Kingdom royal tombs. Herodotus describes them as a Greek visitor; he is not the building inscription.

  from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

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• Pyramid is associated with Stone.

  Pyramids are piled stone. A building fact before it is a silhouette of mystery.

  from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

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Eighteenth-century Europe

• Pyramid is associated with Egyptomania.

  Later Europe made the pyramid a silhouette of mystery and “energy.” That is reception, not a mason’s brief.

  from Antoine Court de Gébelin · Monde primitif, 1781 (tarot essay)

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Nahua tradition

• Pyramid appears in Nahua tradition.

  Sahagún’s Florentine Codex records stepped temple platforms and pyramid-mount speech among Tenochtitlan and ancient seats — named raised cult platforms, not a bare geometry dump. A colonial-era Nahua ethnographic attestation, not a pan-Mesoamerican essence and not an unfiltered pre-invasion voice.

  from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577

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• Pyramid is associated with Cone.

  In Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, the outer form is frequently a cone, often also a pyramid with a square base — the pyramid stands with that cone as alternate outer form.

  from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)

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• Octahedron is associated with Pyramid.

  In Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, after an octahedron is rectified, a section parallel to the girdle cuts off fractions of the upper and lower pyramid — pyramid is that octahedron cutting form.

  from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)

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• Hexagon is associated with Pyramid.

  In Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, a process gives the form of a hexagonal truncated pyramid — the hexagon shapes that pyramid.

  from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)

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• Cube is associated with Pyramid.

  In Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, a hollow rectangular pyramid forms at the surface of a saline solution in evaporation, commencing with a small floating cube upon which the pyramid builds — the cube seeds that pyramid.

  from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)

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• Prism is associated with Pyramid.

  In Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, the fundamental form is a scalene 4-sided pyramid, but the secondary forms have a prismatic character and are frequently observed in oblique 4-sided prisms — the prism sits with that pyramid.

  from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)

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Egyptian religion

• Step pyramid is historically related to Pyramid.

  The step pyramid is the early stacked form in the Egyptian pyramid lineage that later true pyramids and Book of the Dead solar-tomb speech inherit — step-pyramid historically related to pyramid as antecedent form, not a tourist pad alone.

  from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972

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