• Rhaedas@fedia.io
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    Let’s just say that’s exactly the purpose, to preserve in stone what angle to spear fish. What a terrible way to communicate a simple idea.

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      You’d think all the other parts of the world where they do it just by practicing would have built them too if it helped somehow.

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          No, it’s a pyramid they sort of fucked up on by putting on an unstable foundation and had to chance the slope of because of it.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bent_Pyramid

          To be fair, it was a precursor of the Great Pyramid, so they didn’t really know what they were doing yet.

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            Ah yes, my visual memory was correct, but the reasoning for the shape was incorrect.

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            AFAIK we don’t actually know that the Bent Pyramid was a design flaw with a course correction in the middle. We only think that because it’s the only one with a slope that changes in the middle, but there were few pyramids before that one: before the Bent Pyramid was the Meidum one that also had a steep slope, and before that was Djoser’s step pyramid, which was the very first one. And Meidum was a step pyramid too before the sloped casing was added in the last phase. We don’t actually know that they planned for a very tall one then gave up, and what they were experimenting.

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    6 months ago

    Air


    Water

    Thanks for clarifying. I wasn’t sure what the fish is swimming on or what the human is breathing.

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      It would actually work pretty well as a missionary metaphor, to describe how you can’t argue from your own cultural bias and expect to catch many fish in a different culture, even works well with that quote.

      Then they had a stroke and started talking about bent pyramids.