Pyramids

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I was reading this book on the meaning of Western architecture, which begins in ancient Egypt. I always thought of the pyramids as absolutely the most basic and least practical structure in history. This book sort of changed my mind. Egyptians saw the landscape as divided in two axes by the Nile River (which flows from the North to the South) and the sun (which rises in the east and sets in the west). These predictable phenomena laid the groundwork for Egyptian religious sentiment; that, unlike other ancient river civilizations, their gods were contemplative rather than destructive. They adhered to a natural order rather than revolutionized it. They don't bicker and quarrel; they promote structure and routine. Egypt represented this. Eternal, unchanging order... that by this constant, unchanging order of the universe, contrasting forces can act in opposition to each other in harmony. This is what the pyramids represent: eternal order. One can see this by the things they stored the corpses with, as if they would continue their life even in death. As if death was but an element of the nature of the constant universe. False doors represented the passage from one life into the next. Irrigation techniques based on the eternity of reality. It's all so magical. I understand Yu-Gi-Oh! so much more now. Incredible.

Anyway, just a thought.