Ezekiel's vision of ancient Egyptian Giza Pyramid construction. Four lobe pinion pulley explained.

[Paul Hai]

People continue to wonder what Ezekiel’s vision is about and some ideas are about alien spacecraft and the planetary motion of our solar system.
What would be the grandest event in the ancient history of the Middle East? What great structures have been erected in the Middle East where thousands of workers were employed who would return home and tell others what they saw and experienced? Priest Ezekiel’s writings originate in Babylon around 590 BC and his florid descriptions are very specific in many instances. For instance the “wheel within wheel” machines are “high and awesome having four rims with eyes all around.”
On September 12, 2007 the Mount Isa Star newspaper reported on my theory of Rampless Egyptian Pyramid construction. Ramps are not mentioned in any ancient documents regarding Giza Pyramid construction, so why countless ramp theories exist today is a bigger mystery than the Pyramid itself.
I was indoctrinated at university to read, and read again ancient documents. These documents have been compiled into very thick books. The professor wrote me a hand written letter stating that if I did not read and cite ancient documents I would be in trouble.
When my research work earned 80% and proved that what Herodotus had reported in ancient documents about Giza Pyramid construction to be valid the professor replied “I told you to read the ancient documents. I did not tell you to believe them.”
Herodotus visited Giza about 450 BC and walked around the Great Pyramid of Khufu. While in Giza he inquired to the historian priests about the construction of the Great Pyramid and made written reports in Classical Greek which have survived and the content is available today translated into English.
The people who invent ramp theories have a real problem with what Egyptian historian priests explained to Herodotus. Wooden machines were used to build the Pyramid and these machines carried Pyramid blocks step by step upward on the Pyramid, thereby using the Pyramid under construction progressively to the point of completion. The Great Pyramid was constructed in twenty years.
So in view of historical documentation, persistent ramp theorists have been forced to claim Herodotus was a liar, Egyptian historian priests had forgotten their Pyramid history by 450 BC and the translation from Egyptian to Classical Greek must have been faulty. The ramp theorists are totally misguided and those with university qualifications especially should be ashamed of their fairy-tales fed to us in technically looking documentary films and technically looking books.

In 1895 Archaeologist William Matthew Flinders Petrie was in the temple complex of Pharaoh Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahari when a cover was removed and in a hewn out rock some forty or fifty model items of ancient building trade tools were found. A wooden item was presented to Petrie for his storehouse in London which has become the Petrie Museum. This wooden item has been labelled “Petrie rocker, of unknown use” in museums worldwide.

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Figure 1 - Petrie rocker - pinion-pulley lobe quadrant
Petrie and others considered this wooden item to be connected in some way to raising Pyramid blocks and my university research verified that four of these wooden items when fitted around a Pyramid block also form a rope-drum via wooden cross-pegs and when hoisted with a rope, rotate and step-walk with positive engagements of Pyramid steps. With a mechanical trade background in mechanics the method used to build the Giza Pyramids was rediscovered quite suddenly and unexpectedly in 2006 in Mount Isa on the Sunday afternoon of 27 August.

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Figure 2 - The Ancient Egyptian Endless Wheelbarrow (on a rope) surrounding and raising a Pyramid block

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Figure 3 - The earliest form of Rack & Pinion mechanics known. Stone racks and wooden pinions (and rope)

Mid 2007 I had an inkling Ezekiel’s vision of “a wheel within a wheel” is about Giza Pyramid construction and produced the image below which is included in my self-published book of 2007. (Raising Stone 1:Paul Hai’s Racks and Pinions Theory ISBN 9780646476797)

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Figure 4 - Ezekiel writing very specifically about machines
“And this was their appearance: they had the form of men, 6 but each had four faces, and each of them had four wings. 7 Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the sole of a calf's foot; and they sparkled like burnished bronze.”
When we read Ezekiel, of “men having feet like a calf’s foot” this is not about deformed people or aliens, but can be interpreted sensibly as men carrying or working with straight (wooden) leg apparatus strengthened with a bronze calf’s foot shaped attachment. This lifting apparatus is known as a claw-lift.
There are two centrally opposed edge located notches in the base of many Pyramid blocks where the bronze foot attachments were placed for lifting the blocks so the opened and laid flat pinion-pulley lobes, like an open four piece linked bracelet, could be pulled underneath, wrapped around a Pyramid block and closed, making it ready for its step-walk upward on the Pyramid’s steps.

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Reference for the use of claw-lifts at Giza: The German Ernst von Sieglin expedition (1909-1910) papers published 1912 at Leipzig.

The identification of the "Petrie rocker" and its operation of step-walking with rack and pinion mechanical technology, plus the linkage, a while after, to Ezekiel's "wheels within wheels" machines are my own discoveries. My work is known as haitheory. Google haitheory or four lobe pinion pulley.

[maryals]

Very interesting. But, how does the wooden rocker not get crushed by the weight of the stone block?

Mary and Baby

[Paul Hai]

Very interesting. But, how does the wooden rocker not get crushed by the weight of the stone block?
Mary and Baby

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The wooden rocker is a model. It is 235mm long and is 52mm high. This (actual) item was found with about fifty other various models of building equipment.
The real item would have been robust enough to do the job, yet light enough to be portable.
Pharaoh Sneferu, Khufu's father, sent out forty ships to Lebanon for forty shiploads of Lebanese cedar timber (Recorded on the "Palermo Stone").
Lebanese cedar wood is a mid-weight hardwood with a straight grain and thus highly regarded in the ancient world.
Sneferu built the "Red Pyramid" at Dahshur.
Sneferu's three Giza Pyramid building sons were Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure.
There is evidence three pulleys were fitted to one Pyramid block. Stone grooved rope sheaves found at Giza near Menkaure's Pyramid, have three grooves.
This implies three ropes were used per block for hoisting.
Papyrus rope is extremely strong and three ropes provide a safety factor protecting workers and construction should a rope fail.

[maryals]

Interesting, thanks. There are lots of theories around about how the pyramids were built.

Mary and Baby

[Paul Hai]

Ezekiel writes of machines thus,”their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around.” A Pyramid block with pulleys fitted is about one metre wide and one and a half metres high. When numerous pulleys were ascending the Pyramid during the cool of night by firelight, the scene would certainly be high and awesome. Ezekiel writes of what appears to be the lifting devices used to fit the pulley which he writes are straight with a calf shaped foot made of bronze. These devices are known as “clawlifts” and are fully explained in the book, RAISING STONE 1.
I suspected the clawlifts were made of timber and their feet strengthened with bronze plates. There is no need to consider Ezekiel mentally sick and there is no need to entertain any ideas of UFO’s and aliens. The building of the Pyramids was a dramatic event of ancient times using the latest technology involving machinery. This machinery was designed and manufactured by MAN, and having the strength of an OX, could soar like an EAGLE and leap like a LION. The four faces are the associated attributes of the machinery itself. The CHERUBS are the pulleys climbing as if alive and their WINGS are the pulley lobes which touch each other as they are tied together around a beryl coloured sandstone block to be part of the THRONE. The THRONE is the Pyramid. The NOISE and WHIRLWIND refer to much activity onsite at Giza. Machines do seem to be alive and we easily imagine the breathing and hissing of a steam engine to be that of a dragon-like creature.
(Ezekiel's ancient bible documented report is dated c.590 BC.)

I need to be specific about … “and all four rims were full of eyes all around”.
Ezekiel’s reference to “eyes all around” is how the cross-pegs (for the rope) appear on the outer faces of the four pinion-pulley’s lobes.
These “eyes” are adjacent the four rims of the four pinion-pulley lobes and so are “all around”.
These “eyes” are, to be specific, the round flat ends of the cross-pegs.
These end pegs were more than likely enhanced with paint to give animal’s eyes appearance, to bestow animal qualities to the pinion-pulleys operation. (Bird’s eyes for flight, lion’s eyes for power and so forth).
There are today only two ancient documents related to ancient Egyptian Pyramid construction at Giza.
“Ezekiel’s vision” and information given to Herodotus of Halicarnassus (The Greek Father of History) c.450 BC by his counterparts at Giza who were the historian priests as the ancient priesthood were literate and it is they who recorded history that was Egypt’s concern and interest.

For instance Egyptian priests recorded the devastating eruption of the Thera (Kalliste) volcano which occurred 1627-1600 BC as this event caused horrific events in Egypt and caused the declining Minoan (Kalliste/Keftiu) Maritime Empire, Egypts trading partner, an accelerated decline.
Ezekiel’s “vision” is a firmly established real event which has been much talked about for years in the Middle East.
Ezekiel would have heard accounts from relatives of people who had been employed by Pharaoh Khufu’s administration and/or the administration of Khafre and Menkaure.
Ezekiel’s account may lack the technical language we take for granted, but knowing the subject of his “vision” gives us an insight into the quaintness of ancient language.
References to animals was part of the ancient world in language and in artifacts.
“He’s as strong as an ox, fights like a lion and can run like a cheetah”.
Ancient furniture legs have animal feet, paws and claws and arm-rests have animal paws and claws for instance.
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The chair shown was used by Khufu's mother (Queen Hetepheres). Khufu, himself would have sat on it. Pharaoh Khufu had the Great Pyramid built at Giza.
This tradition has continued into modern times, but today we have technical language available to us when we want to be clear and precise.