The
Grotto
Knowing
that the upper shafts project through the pyramid sides on the same course
level, but opposite to each other, provides sufficient reason to believe that a
mathematical or geometrical function may be associated with the four shaft
locations.
It is difficult to
visualize what formations can be derived from the measures of the shafts and
only through trial and error can we realize the outcome. A circle is drawn
using the four ends of the shafts and two new geometrical characteristics are
revealed within the pyramid (Ill. 2).
Illustration 2. A
circle is formed using the four end locations of the shafts. The center of the
circle is located on the centerline of the pyramid and equal in height with the
ceiling of the King’s Chamber, it also intersects the exact location of the
“grotto”, a chamber having no known function and carved within the tunnel
attached to both passages.
There has never
been any logical explanation for the construction of the grotto set within the
roughly hewn tunnel leading from the descending passage to the ascending
passage. Is this newly formed circle another coincidence, or was the small
grotto intentionally built to attract our attention in an attempt to confirm
that more information is hidden within the structure?
If this circular
measure was to be discovered then what does it represent?