Cheops : Khufu (c.2900 BC), king of ancient Egypt for 23 years. He was the founder of the Fourth dynasty & is famous as the builder of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh.
... final phrase has a historical allusion: a conscious hill Down-kindled by some Cheops of the skies To monument his lordship over death. You must have heard of Cheops, the Egyptian King who built the Great Pyramid at Gizeh? Of course I have heard of Cheops, but did not expect to hear of him again in this context. Don't you think the limiting proper Page 610 ...
... “occultism”. “Glauer began a serious study of occultism”, writes Goodrick-Clarke. “His interest in exotic religions had been kindled when he saw the Mevlevi sect of whirling dervishes and visited the Cheops pyramid at El-Giza in July 1900. His companion Ibrahim told him of the cosmological and numerological significance of the pyramids and aroused Glauer’s curiosity about the occult gnosis of ancient ...
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