Royal Crown Cola was a favorite of mine as a boy; but I didn’t pay all that much attention to those yellow pyramids on the bottles of RC. The color scheme was attractive, and the twelve-ounces for a nickel was a good deal and it tasted good. It would take a while before I began to wonder about those pyramids as well as the pyramid on dollar bills. It finally occurred to me that such pyramids were actually “alien” shapes that did not normally occur in nature and were not used in conventional structures. And the more I thought about this, the more the word “alien” suggested itself in respect to pyramids such as those of Giza, the smooth-sided kind like the Great Pyramid rather than the far more common step-pyramids found in so many other places globally. Four-sided structures are easy to understand, even those of step-pyramids, but not those formed of smooth sides reaching a pointed apex. To use a good Southern expression like that of Mammy in GWTW, “It ain’t fittin’.” And no matter how you try to explain it, those huge smooth-sided pyramids coming to a point on top “just ain’t fittin’,” they are alien to our eyes and minds and in some mysterious way just out of place.

But do a search of the literature on those Giza pyramids and you will quickly realize there are no simple answers to these alien structures. In fact, the more you study the subject the more alien they seem to become as even the experts are divided in so many different directions. One of the reasons for the paucity of answers is the fact that these particular and distinctive pyramids like so much of the knowledge of ancient civilizations were beyond what those ancients were capable of knowing, beyond their native abilities of design and construction on their own without “outside help.” I’ve used the example several times of the constellations as a “celestial map” and various “zodiacs” being beyond what the ancients could possibly have known to their unaided eyes or any mathematics or science available to them unless there was some outside help; one of the more common theories being that of advanced civilizations such as Atlantis in some manner preserving their knowledge and passing it on to ancient Sumer, Babylon, and Egypt.

As to various ancient structures given to the study of the heavens, many believe the Giza pyramids are oriented astronomically, and in a way not possible without help of some kind. As to the Mayan Doomsday Calendar, the same thing would seem to apply as well provided the calculation of 2012 is correct. A search of the literature here, as with the Giza pyramids, can be very confusing, but it is generally agreed very particular astronomical things will occur in this year, including those of a galactic nature important to our solar system.

Whatever one’s opinion, the Sphinx and Giza pyramids for the most part remain mysteries, as do so many ancient structures and science not possible to the contemporary people of the times and must be explained in some way unknown to us. And it is in the attempts to explain these mysteries so many theories of religion, UFOs, etc. gain adherents. For my part, I incline to the theory of advanced civilizations in some manner following catastrophic events that destroyed them imparting their knowledge to future civilizations. And why not consider the possibility of extraterrestrial minds unhindered by the constraints of any known physical limitations?

One idea is that of peculiar genius such as that of Newton and Einstein being imparted by telepathic minds in some way able to communicate their thoughts to the proper “receivers,” much in the manner of claims for “channeling.” And when some raise objections to this it still leaves the problem of trying to explain how the ancients accomplished things literally impossible without help of some kind. Granting the idea of some kind of telepathic communication from superior beings is in the realm of Psi and mysticism such as reincarnation, an idea embraced by some very notable people even of genius, nevertheless it remains a legitimate area of speculation in all attempts to explain the unexplainable.

One very peculiar but intriguing idea concerning the smooth and pointed Giza pyramids is the design would be suitable for enormous atmospheric pressures, including that of the greatest ocean depths. But what ancient and lost civilization would have needed such a design for any practical purposes? For the present it is a question in search of an answer, though many are willing to accept their astronomical design and orientation.

As to the Mayan Doomsday Calendar, my own thoughts as I consider world conditions is that whether true or not we seem to be on a doomsday path globally, and given the circumstances it is a legitimate question of how we are going to last another five years without something of catastrophic significance happening; nuclear, climatic, biological, or other? And those Giza pyramids will continue to appear “alien,” and perhaps the writers of the apocalyptic literature of the Bible, the inexplicable ancient structures and things like the Mayan Calendar may have had “outside help?” Whether or not, few would argue we need the kind of help we can’t expect of world leaders including our own.

Of course, unlike the mysteries of the Giza pyramids and the one on our dollar bill those pyramids on the RC bottle could simply have been a promise of a cold, thirst-quenching and refreshing drink set against an arid landscape. But I wonder? And before anyone is too quick to dismiss my wondering about such things given so much lunacy abounding in politics for example, who would be so uncharitable as to cast the first stone?