Egyptian PantheonMonument
Giza Plateau
The desert plateau west of Cairo with the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure and the Great Sphinx, monuments of Old Kingdom kingship and the king's hoped-for ascent to the stars and the sun.
About Giza Plateau
Tombs the gods do not narrate
Giza's pyramids and sphinx belong to Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure. The Pyramid Texts that map the king's afterlife come mainly from Saqqara and later pyramids, not from these three. Mythic literature does not stage Ra or Osiris walking the Giza plateau. Later Greek visitors (Herodotus) already tourist the stones. Treat Giza as royal mortuary engineering that Egyptian religion used, not as a setting named in a cycle. The sphinx's identity is still argued.
On the map
Giza Plateau among other places of the Egyptian Pantheon.
Sources and further reading
Source notes
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- Herodotus, Histories 2.124
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