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Tell me of the Djedi westicar papyrus
The Djedi episode in the Westcar Papyrus is far more than a folk tale — it encodes a prophetic succession crisis, a secret numerical count hidden in a flint box at Heliopolis, and a tradition of resurrection technology that alternative researchers argue reflects real priestly knowledge. Graham Hancock and Christopher Dunn treat the text as a window into suppressed Heliopolitan archive traditions. The Djedi narrative may preserve a genuine memory of a knowledge vault that predated the 4th Dynasty.
Evidence
- The Westcar Papyrus — now held in Berlin's Ägyptisches Museum — is conventionally dated to the Second Intermediate Period but records events set in Khufu's court.
- According to Graham Hancock's analysis in Fingerprints of the Gods, this 'number of Iput' — the sacred chambers or apertures of Thoth's sanctuary — points directly to a pre-dynastic archive, a concealed repository of cosmological and architectural knowledge.
- Christopher Dunn, in The Giza Power Plant, notes that the flint box of scrolls at Heliopolis referenced by Djedi aligns with traditions of a 'Hall of Records' — a concept Edgar Cayce independently identified under the Sphinx plateau.
- Robert Bauval, in his Orion Correlation work, links the 'wenet-sanctuary of Thoth' to a stellar timing system — Thoth governing the cycles of precession — making Djedi's secret number potentially a precessional count, not merely an architectural inventory.
- The magician Djedi, described as 110 years old and living at Djed-Sneferu, is brought before Khufu by Prince Hordjedef specifically because he possesses knowledge of the 'number of Iput inside the wenet-sanctuary of Thoth.'