Whether the word Cheops is a name or a comprehensive notion?
The biggest pyramid in Giza is known from the times of Herodotus as “Pyramid of Cheops”. This tradition began with "Novels" of the Herodotus.
The narrated story of Herodotus is in the base of nowadays treatment in Egyptology. This is ridiculous, and from some point of view strange – after so centuries of investigations, heaped data, packed with exhibits in great museums, advanced technologies, and so intellectual potential we are still on opinion of the Herodotus.
However, this is not only ridiculous and strange – it is dangerous!
When modern reader look in the "Novels", he/she should rest with impression that Herodotus never had been in Egypt!
The persons familiar with Physics know that mainly there have two basic families of methods of investigations:
- Substantial, and
- Local
The difference between two types of methods should be explained with simple example.
Let us say that you wish to investigate the cars. You have two possibilities:
1. To get one car and drive it, fix it, repair it, change it construction …
All the time you will be with “this substance”. You will find information and notion of cars.
They will be profound, but limited to one car.
This is substantial approach ….
2. To sit somewhere in the highway and peering on the band.
You will see many cars for a small piece of time. Thus, you will reach some knowing about cars, which will be about many cars, but on the surface. You will find color, dimensions, and speed of cars, but will not understand engines, will not possess knowledge of changing the speeds …
This is local approach ...
These approaches were formulated at first from ancient Romans in their deal with Rule of Law Next physicists worked out the methods and they are strictly applicable as in the physics, as in the geography, as in the history, and so on. As methods of investigation, they are universal.
If Herodotus traveled through Egypt, his novels should reflect substantial approach.
As the most part of travelogues.
When one is reading Herodotus’ novels, it is in the eyes that here are applied local methods.
It is possible that the information given from author was gathered chiefly in the taverns around the tables. The sources were not scholars and monks, but half drank sailors and captains of the boots, where Herodotus really traveled. Should to say – very modest travels chiefly in Mediterranean islands. The "Novels" are filled with wild imaginings, impossible for the eyewitness. There are exposed much foolishness, non-thinkable for the man who has been on the place! Especially about winged serpents in Book II, “History of Cambis”, 75. All books are plenty with such infantile silliness.
In addition, we do not know original text. The copies exist with not known rate of manipulation.
Must to underline that in the original monuments from Egypt, there has not name “Cheops”. Regularly scientists flatten this name with Khufu, only in the ground that such pharaoh was recorded. However, the sound likeness between the names is doubtful, and the semantic similarity is undetectable.
Here, we can remember that Herodotus was Greek, and most of his works are known from Latin re-writings. What the name Cheops should means on these languages?
After short investigation in the Latin vocabulary, investigators should find that compound “Che-Ops” means “new flourishing”, “new possibilities”, “new ruling”. To mention that root “ops” rests in contemporary languages in the form “option’, which is very popular.
Here should be pointed that such buildings as great complex in Giza can be made only by society in flourish! No doubts – since union of Egypt under unified monarchy, and especially after the ruling of Joser, the state was in uplift. And that this society was in “new” flourish is understandable – the monarchy form of ruling and unitary state was very new form to the accustomed to federalism Egyptians at the times of pyramids! About this matter, Manetho was right and exhaustive.
Thus, the name of the Great Pyramid (in his Greek or Latin forms) is telling not for the person, but for the period of Egyptian history.
Now we name this period “Old Kingdom”. However, for contemporary people it was “New Kingdom”!
The biggest pyramid in Giza is known from the times of Herodotus as “Pyramid of Cheops”. This tradition began with "Novels" of the Herodotus.
The narrated story of Herodotus is in the base of nowadays treatment in Egyptology. This is ridiculous, and from some point of view strange – after so centuries of investigations, heaped data, packed with exhibits in great museums, advanced technologies, and so intellectual potential we are still on opinion of the Herodotus.
However, this is not only ridiculous and strange – it is dangerous!
When modern reader look in the "Novels", he/she should rest with impression that Herodotus never had been in Egypt!
The persons familiar with Physics know that mainly there have two basic families of methods of investigations:
- Substantial, and
- Local
The difference between two types of methods should be explained with simple example.
Let us say that you wish to investigate the cars. You have two possibilities:
1. To get one car and drive it, fix it, repair it, change it construction …
All the time you will be with “this substance”. You will find information and notion of cars.
They will be profound, but limited to one car.
This is substantial approach ….
2. To sit somewhere in the highway and peering on the band.
You will see many cars for a small piece of time. Thus, you will reach some knowing about cars, which will be about many cars, but on the surface. You will find color, dimensions, and speed of cars, but will not understand engines, will not possess knowledge of changing the speeds …
This is local approach ...
These approaches were formulated at first from ancient Romans in their deal with Rule of Law Next physicists worked out the methods and they are strictly applicable as in the physics, as in the geography, as in the history, and so on. As methods of investigation, they are universal.
If Herodotus traveled through Egypt, his novels should reflect substantial approach.
As the most part of travelogues.
When one is reading Herodotus’ novels, it is in the eyes that here are applied local methods.
It is possible that the information given from author was gathered chiefly in the taverns around the tables. The sources were not scholars and monks, but half drank sailors and captains of the boots, where Herodotus really traveled. Should to say – very modest travels chiefly in Mediterranean islands. The "Novels" are filled with wild imaginings, impossible for the eyewitness. There are exposed much foolishness, non-thinkable for the man who has been on the place! Especially about winged serpents in Book II, “History of Cambis”, 75. All books are plenty with such infantile silliness.
In addition, we do not know original text. The copies exist with not known rate of manipulation.
Must to underline that in the original monuments from Egypt, there has not name “Cheops”. Regularly scientists flatten this name with Khufu, only in the ground that such pharaoh was recorded. However, the sound likeness between the names is doubtful, and the semantic similarity is undetectable.
Here, we can remember that Herodotus was Greek, and most of his works are known from Latin re-writings. What the name Cheops should means on these languages?
After short investigation in the Latin vocabulary, investigators should find that compound “Che-Ops” means “new flourishing”, “new possibilities”, “new ruling”. To mention that root “ops” rests in contemporary languages in the form “option’, which is very popular.
Here should be pointed that such buildings as great complex in Giza can be made only by society in flourish! No doubts – since union of Egypt under unified monarchy, and especially after the ruling of Joser, the state was in uplift. And that this society was in “new” flourish is understandable – the monarchy form of ruling and unitary state was very new form to the accustomed to federalism Egyptians at the times of pyramids! About this matter, Manetho was right and exhaustive.
Thus, the name of the Great Pyramid (in his Greek or Latin forms) is telling not for the person, but for the period of Egyptian history.
Now we name this period “Old Kingdom”. However, for contemporary people it was “New Kingdom”!
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