Episode #226: The New Year, Emails, and Petrie

Brothers of the Serpent

Society & Culture, History, Philosophy

4.8 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 172 minutes

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Summary

Yet another three hour show(this is a habit we're going to have to break), where we catch up on listener emails for the first half of the show, then tackle the remaining sections of "The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh" that Kyle picked out. Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie lays out his relatively "standard model" perspective of how the pyramids may have been built, logistically speaking, using a core of year-round specialists, and an annual influx of unskilled labor from the general population during the Nile Flooding period. We find his reasoning....well...reasonable....and he also stands out from the standard model in two important respects: he believes the pyramid builders had access to iron and bronze, and that they had mechanically-assisted cutting tools with "jeweled tips" to help them in sawing and drilling of hard stone.

He also gives some fascinating observations on the measurement details of the Great Pyramid, the use of Pi, and the many interesting mathematical "coincidences" of geometrical "harmony" contained in the layout of the structure.

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0:00.0	A sketch of the history and design of the Great Pyramid by William Matthew Flinders Petrie.
0:07.0	You are listening to Brothers of the Serpent Podcast.
0:11.0	And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, boys and and girls angels and demons and monsters and
0:24.1	this is brothers of the serpent podcast and we are coming to you not live from the 10 by 10 by 10
0:29.5	tangent cube of science nestled amongst the dusty bones of an ancient sea bed high atop
0:34.3	the Edwards plateau and uh happy new year to everybody.
0:38.6	Happy new year.
0:41.1	So I was planning on taking last week off and we didn't.
0:45.3	And we're not taking this week off.
0:46.9	We haven't taken, we're not taking this week off either.
0:50.1	So I don't know what happened to my podcasting vacation.
0:54.5	But yeah, I thought last week was great.
0:57.4	Really glad Marty could come back and I think we had a good conversation.
1:00.6	And we got to tackle a bunch of emails, which is just another thing we have to do this week.
1:04.8	Like we're getting behind on the emails.
1:06.5	So as it stands right now, we don't actually know what this show is going to be about is it going to be
1:11.1	listener communications or are we going to be able to tackle some other stuff after we handle them
1:14.4	emails well we're going to find out as we go yep which is uh that's par for the course yeah we come down
1:21.3	here and we sit into the studio and we're like what are we doing i'm like well i have a bunch of emails
1:25.0	well we've been planning for a month or two to do this petri stuff that I was like all ready to do a month or two ago.
1:32.6	And then like today at 205, I was like, oh, I need to look that up.
1:42.3	So it's anyway.
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