The Pyramids of Giza

Circa 350 CE, Memphis, Egypt

After trekking northward for three days, Ahmose neared the Nile Delta. It would be several months until the river indulged in its annual overflow, which coincided with the resplendent rise of Sirius in June, and several more months until the flood’s peak in September when murky, mineral-rich water engulfed and impregnated the river’s banks. But he could easily discern where the Nile Valley began—a stark line, which the flood rendered the year before, that offset the russet, rocky desert from dark, virile soil. Ahmose walked due east, wrestling with the weariness eager to creep into the marrow of his bones, until the sands of time coerced him to a propitious place, the edge of the Nile River.

In the distance, Ahmose could see the great pyramids, their polished white limestone casting off a powerful solar luminescence trumped only by the sun itself, to whom the pyramids, with their sun-ray shape and sunbeam gleam, paid homage.

“Praise the gods!” he said, falling to his knees and bowing to the earth.

Four days prior, Ahmose had been called in a dream from his hometown of Arsinoe in the Egyptian desert to the pyramids near the Nile Delta. On that night, a deep sleep had overcome him, like a midst covering the earth, and while in the folds of slumber, the god Orion, the great huntsman, had come to him. Ahmose had seen Orion once before, as a young boy, when Orion instructed him in the art of bow hunting, a craft which Ahmose excelled in, having become a celebrated antelope hunter among his townsmen. This time, however, Orion’s appearance was of a very different nature.

“Go north to the great pyramids, for it is there that your ultimate catch will be harnessed,” Orion had said.

Ahmose had learned of Orion’s connection to the ancient pyramids from his father who had spoken in wild gestures of a legend regarding three colossal pyramids situated near the Nile Delta. The three great pyramids, he had said, were an earthly reproduction of a stellar constellation—the constellation of Orion, god of hunting, also associated with death and the afterlife. The pyramids matched the three stars in Orion’s belt, both in alignment and proportion. They were a perfect imitation of their celestial counterpart, he had said.

Within each pyramid were burial chambers where ancient Egyptian royalty from the age of the pharaoh’s, thousands of years before Ahmose’s time, were laid to rest. From these chambers, airshafts extended leading to the pyramids’ exterior, and these shafts pointed directly toward the constellation of Orion, his father had said. The souls of the royal deceased would ultimately travel through these shafts, being projected directly toward Orion and into the afterlife on a straight path, easy and free of perils, unlike the fate all other souls who would need to embark on a dangerous journey through the underworld to get to the afterlife. The pyramids, his father had said, were not simply splendid tombs, but machines designed to aid the pharaoh’s journey to the distant stars. They were created to serve as the pharaoh’s gateway to the afterlife.

By the time night fell, Ahmose had journeyed to the base of the largest of the three pyramids. There he leaned in silence against its massive limestone blocks, staring up at the constellation of Orion, lying in wait for some further message or instruction. As Orion’s belt came into perfect alignment with the three pyramids, they seemed to shine brighter, so bright, in fact, that the entire plateau became illuminated by starlight. It was at that moment that Ahmose spotted a young woman, her wide hips and narrow waist accentuated by the silky black tresses running down to the small of her back, looking up at Orion with the same wonder in her eyes. When she caught sight of Ahmose, their gazes becoming locked upon one another, he immediately knew that she was the “ultimate catch” that Orion, the great huntsman, had been referring to.



The Truth of the Matter: The Orion correlation theory, which posits that the three greatest pyramids in the Giza complex were intentionally designed and built to correspond to the three stars in the belt of the Orion constellation, is a hypothesis in pyramidology first presented in the late 1980s. This story’s explanation of the reason for this correlation is true. The characters in this story are fictional.