Luke Caverns
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 27 May
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And then that mastaba eventually turns into six mastabas stacked on top of each other that makes this step pyramid. And then that can develop into a pyramid. And so it just – it's this – there are these – essentially this is – It's like a dump for their bodies that eventually becomes like the central point of their religion, right? Right.
So that's just another example on the other side of the world of the same thing happening as the shell mounts.
It's fascinating how humans, like, we all feel like we're from somewhere, like this is where I was born. But a lot of our identity and our connection to the land that we feel we're a part of is about dead bodies being buried there.
Yeah. Yeah. So much of it is about death, right?
It's about your ancestors and that kicks, you know, we hope that our ancestors went to that other place, whatever it is in our religious perspective. But then there, the place where they're dead becomes more than just your dead grandpa. It becomes like the, your connection point to your religion and what you think happens to you after death. Yeah.
Yeah. Oh, man, that's so fascinating because it – so necropolis is a Greek word, means dead city. So you have acropolis, acropolis, a living city. You know, you have this necropolis in Egypt called Saqqara. I'm sure you've heard of this before.
And in Saqqara, you have these fake facades of buildings where the pharaoh is going to be walking around, where people are going to be living in this city in the afterlife. Like that's what all these tombs are. That's why, you know, at Giza – Yeah, yeah, that's what they are. They're like buildings that people are going to continue to live in.
They're going to get up in the next world and still be alive. And they're building, you know, these giant graveyards. They're just, they're cities. You're walking through it and all of these buildings that we call tombs That's an oversimplification on our part looking into the past. This was a building where they would live eternally in the next life.
And they actually built temples and places for the pharaoh to walk around. So on the third photo right there, those are facades of temples. On the right? The third from the left? Yes, yes. With some of these buildings, there's not actually an entrance into it. It's just a solid building.
Yeah, yeah. Where there's all these doorways that go nowhere. Yes, it's thought that these are sacred places where the dead are going to continue to live in the afterlife. And it's just funny how they really, really care about building these cities where dead people are going to continue walking around.
And what's so interesting is that the Maya put forth so much money from their economy to keep up their ancestors' necropoli, you know, where their ancestors lived.
On a very micro level, too.
Sure, sure.
family had a little family shrine if they owned that piece of property through generations one of the buildings was where grandpa was buried and it becomes a a living shrine in their house yeah it's like an entire part of their city that is just is that one of those uh mastabas in the background is that the on the bottom right uh so that bottom left i'm sorry bottom left that that pyramid in the background that's one of the that's the one that emotep made right
Okay, I'm sorry, not this one. Will you go back to the other photo?
Yeah, the bottom left.
Bottom left, that's on there. Yeah, so at the top right, those are actually modern day rafters that are covering up the top two or three layers. That's the step pyramid of Saqqara. Okay. Are they rebuilding it?
Is that a pyramid or is that the mastaba saying something?
So they think that that is the first pyramid in order where you can see that if you look up the word mastaba, the idea is that, well, I mean, we know that people from 3100 BC to 2700 BC, very important people such as pharaohs are being buried in these buildings that, you know, these one by three buildings that look like big stone Twinkies. That's basically what they are.
And the reason that they evolve from there is because they're burying the person in these shafts that go under the ground. And what tomb robbers do is rather than coring up, just like this.
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