place
Pyramid
A four-sided royal tomb of Old Kingdom Egypt, later a tourist and occult silhouette. The building is a burial monument; “pyramid energy” is a modern claim.
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)
associated with · sourced · modern interpretation
sources
- Histories · Herodotus
Herodotus, Histories.
- Monde primitif · Antoine Court de Gébelin
Antoine Court de Gébelin, Monde primitif (volume on tarot).