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parrhesiac · 2 days ago
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It's interesting, the little parallels in the Stargate movie.
Daniel says the Great Pyramid is older than we think it is, and the language, too, and the scientific community balks; the Project Giza staff says the cover stone tablets are older than Daniel thinks they could possibly be, and the language too, and Daniel balks.
And we know very clearly, because Daniel says it in his original presentation, that there is no writing in the Great Pyramid, and then he's surprised by the fact that there's no writing in the pyramid on the other end.
The same culture, we might guess, that created the cover stones on this end will have created the inscriptions on the planet on the other end—but of course that culture isn't the culture of the pyramid builders (or designers, since they were probably built with slave labor), it's the culture of the people they enslaved. (Meaning that as far as the movie is concerned, using the series terminology, the Egyptian dialect is not "Goa'uld," at all. We have no idea what Ra's language might be.) And of course there were inscriptions nearby on Earth, at Giza, because they kicked Ra out. At the other end, they did not control that territory.
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