MISSING PHALLUS

by David Bowman

The geometrical analysis of the King's Chamber showed that the mystery lays concealed in the height of the chamber. The height does not fit in unmistakably defined royal cubit of the floor plan, where the ratio is exactly 10 : 20 royal cubits. This anomaly is suggestive of being a key to understanding of the symbolism employed.

The most venerable deity of ancient Egypt was undoubtedly the ancient Asar, or Osiris as Helens called him. There are many volumes written on Osiris, perhaps the best is a selection from Sir Frazer's Golden Bough. Osiris was the earth god, connected with the cultivation of earth, and growing of the corn. He was also the God of the Underworld, the God of the dead. His sacred animal was Apis, the bull, and every year the festival was held in favor of the resurrecting Osiris, ending in ritual sacrifice of the bull. In the context of The Coming forth by Day, which is falsely called The Book of Dead, Osiris ventures through many trials in the Underworld and comes triumphantly out of Tuat as Asar-un-Nefer, Osiris Triumphant. Egyptologists falsely consider The Book of Dead as the record of the Egyptian conception of afterlife, for it must be considered as a practical magical textbook, used by the adepts of Egyptian mysteries. For the adepts resurrection represents a practical formula, and rebirth is to be done in life-time. Even Christ warns of the second death in order to reach Heavens while he was preaching on the Olive Mount. If we consider a kabbalistic Tree of Life, Osiris belongs to the sixth sphere called Tiphareth (Beauty), the sphere of Shemesh, Sun, with the mystical number 666 that comes from the sum of all numbers that form the magical square of six.

The most famous Egyptian myth was recorded by Plutarch under the title De Iside et Osiride. It preserves a version of the myth about Isis and Osiris that stands in the center of Egyptian magick. It describes the most fundamental formula of the Eon called the Dying God, simply put, a formula representing death and resurrection. The same magickal formula is repeated many times in different disguises, from the worship of Phoenician Adonis, Hellenic Attis, Dionysus, Mithras, and finally to the worship of Christian Jesus. They all repeated and elaborated the same source, the ancient cult of the dying God Osiris, modifying it according to their needs.

According to Plutarch's description Thoth fought with the Moon God to gain the birth of 5 'intercalary' deities, that represented additional 5 days of the year (14-18 July) added to previous 360. This Gods are born in successive days: Osiris, Nephthys, Seth, Isis, and Horus ('the elder'). Osiris is then mutilated by his brother Typhoon (Seth) into pieces that Isis collects and on the place of findings builds a shrine/tomb in the memory of her deceased husband. She finds all pieces except Phallus for which she makes a substitute, and post-mortal son of Osiris, Horus ('the younger'), was born. The myth later describes Horus' fight with Set in order to revenge Osiris' death. The myth contains all elements of the formula of Death and Resurrection, since when Isis completes the shattered Osiris, he resurrects in the heavenly abode. What is important for our interpretation is the number of parts of Osiris' body that was scattered around the country. Plutarch's version of the myth says that Osiris' body was torn into 14 pieces, or 13 + the missing Phallus.

We have already presented in the first, analytical part, that along the line of Petrie's measurements, and Legon's translation of measures into original royal cubits, the Key of composition is most easily deduced from dimensions of the King's Chamber, which could be considered as the most vital part of the Pyramid, an emptiness around which so much effort was needed to embrace it with mass, to delineate and protect that fragile part of emptiness. We could say that all the message is concealed in the 'emptiness', or a hollowing of the huge mass which is only a ballast around that most precious empty space that only a human can fill.


	The height of the King Chamber is 13 common cubits, consisting of 6 palms.



	met, phallus = 10

The breadth of the chamber is 10 royal cubits. The Egyptian hieroglyph for number ten can be met, which also represents Phallus. The analysis of the main features inside the pyramid proves that the main figures of this composition are numbers 13, and 14. This emphasis on symbolism of 13, and 14 can also be traced in the Great Chamber of the Second Pyramid. Both numbers are inter-connected by the equation that invokes Plutarch's description of the myth of Isis and Osiris which is also a mythical representation of a correction of the 360 days year into a 365 days year, that must have been very important to Egyptian initiates:

13^2 + 14^2 = 365, days of a year
Another peculiarity of the interplay of these two numbers is expressed by the rectangle with sides 13 and 14, having number 19 for a diagonal.

19^2 = 361, the first intercalary day on which Osiris were born
The length of the Chamber is 20 royal cubits which equal 140 palms, which is a synonym of number 14. In this context it is the number of Osiris' Phallus, being the fourteenth, missing, part according to the myth. The Great Chamber also reveals another surprise - the use of two different modules, a royal cubit of 7 palms, and a common cubit of 6 palms, that fits into the height of the chamber 13 times, ending the guessing of how the height is related to breadth and length of the chamber. The Amen-en-Apt rod discovered by Jomard reveals an important correspondence already deeply rooted in hermetism - 6 is the number of Osiris, while 7 is Isis'. Gods inscribed on this magickal rod are following the order as told by the cosmology of Heliopolis: Ra / Atem / Athon, followed by Shu - Tefnut, Geb - Nut , Osiris, Isis, Set, Nephthys, and Horus completing the Ennead.


	The hieroglyphs for Osiris and Isis are the sixth and the seventh

The height of the chamber equals 13 'Osirian' common cubits of 6 palms. This is a metaphor for the death of Osiris, 13 equals Osiris without Phallus, castrated Osiris, devoid of Spirit or simply, dead Osiris. In order to be resurrected he must be again united, revivified by the Holy Spirit that Egyptians equated with the concept of Phallus. An uneducated reader is to be warned that it is not penis that is in question, but Phallus as Logos. Number XIII is also drawn on the famous Tarot card Death, which marks the border where 'change' is introduced as a condition of Life. Osiris' Phallus was buried across the country and many to many shrines were erected, claiming to host the relic, the Great Pyramid was the true, spiritual monument of Osirian mysteries.

The King's Chamber is a symbol of the mythological Missing Phallus of Osiris, 'an absence' that is the essence of the Great Pyramid. This interpretation is also sustained by the proportions of the cubus of the chamber, which is roughly two cubes. This approximation - the roof is a bit higher then needed to get two cubes - is perhaps also an optical correction, known in architecture since ancient times. Two perfect cubes would be perceived as a bit lower then needed, therefore the architects (for the purpose of correcting the perspective) elongated the heights to obtain a feeling of perfection. Two cubes have 10 squares for the surface, again a synonym for met, Phallus.