What does it mean when Ahab becomes a pyramid in Moby Dick?
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I'm glad you asked that, not because I have the answer but because me and my daughter, well . . . me anyways, are reading Moby Dick, and I never remembered it being so detailed on Cetology or in the beginning of the novel before he meets Queequeg.   Maybe I cheated back in my highschool or junior high days and got the Cliff Notes, but I coulda swore I read the book.  Oh well, that's been many decades ago.  I just got past the part where Captain Ahab kicked Stubb (First Mate isn't he??) and Stubb had the dream where someone asks him why is it so bad to be kicked by Ahab since his leg is made of ivory,etc..  My daughter, who lives with her mother about 65 miles southeast of me, probably hasn't read one word of it since she's a lot like her mother, who didn't like to read.  I read "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to her when she was pregnant with either our son or daughter, I can't remember which.  She liked to be read to but wouldn't do it herself, so, I doubt my daughter has read any of "Moby Dick" since she hasn't said anything about it.  Oh well, I'm rambling on.  Sorry.  Maybe I'll continue the book, but the Cetology part is way too detailed and "informational" for me.  I want more "action", and am becoming too addicted to the brainless tv, and too lazy to read fine novels.  I hope you finish the book.  It's a wonderful piece of literature.  God Bless you.
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Which pyramid at Cairo are you referring to? Where abouts on the pyramid?\n\nAre you referring to the hieroglyphs? Hieroglyphs adorn most ancient buildings and tombs (Valley of the Kings, Karnak, Abu Simbel, etc.).
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Magwitch is a convict who escapes from a prison ship (hulk) near the marshes where Pip lives. They come across each other at a nearby cemetery, and Magwitch threatens Pip to get him food and a file so he can break off his handcuffs(but all this must be done in secret so not to reveal where Magwitch has escpaed to). When Pip returns with Magwitch has asked for, it touches him. A few days pass and guards from the hulks come to Pip's uncle, Joe the blacksmith, to fix some of their handcuffs so  they can capture some escaped convicts. Joe asks the guards if they would mind if him and Pip went with them to see (he thinks it is a treat for Pip. Though secretly Pip is terrified that they will find out that he helped Magwitch, but he goes along regardless). They find and arrest the convict, who Pip's suprise, does not reveal how he got the file and food. Years pass, and Pip grows up wealthy because of an secret benefactor who pays for him becoming a gentleman. On his 21st birthday, Pip is astonished to find out that his benefactor is indeed the convict on marshes so long ago (he had thought it was a wealthy lady named miss havisham who always acted as though she was his benefactor). With help from his friend Herbert, Pip sucessfully hides the convict (if discovered death by hanging would be the punishment). Pip later however learns that the conman(Compeysenson) who got Magwitch arrested in the first place, is in London looking for him. Magwitch still remains sucessfully hidden and Pip decides that it is best that Magwitch be taken out of the country (first by rowboat, then he would be smuggled into a bigger ship). They do this and everything goes well, but just as Magwitch is about to get on the bigger ship, Compeysen shows up in with the police in a rowboat and points him out. They bring magwitch back to their boat to arrest them, but once they get there Magwitch pushes Compeysen under the water and the two wrestle. Magwitch is the only one to return from beneath the surface, and is taken away to a prison where he spends the rest of his life. Pip vists him everyday and tells him about his daughter, Estella (who was beleieved to be dead because of her violent mother (magwitch's ex-wife)) is actually alive and living with the wealthy Miss Havisham. Magwitch does not live much more after this and dies due to illness.\n\n*Hope this helped!*
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Its when you poop on the top of someones head so it looks like a top hat. It can also be when you rub poop all over your face so it looks like Abe's beard. Or a combination of both!
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This story (2 Kings 2:23-25), like the one about Elijah and the captains (2 Kings 1), is preserved for us in Scripture to convey a popular understanding of the dignity of the prophet. Told in popular vein, it becomes a caricature, in which neither Elisha nor the bears behave in character.\n\nThe story in 2 Kings 1 was told among the people to enhance the dignity of the prophet and to reflect the power of God whom he served. The prophet Elijah was well aware of the mercy which God extends even to the wicked. "Then the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, 'Have you seen that Ahab has humbled himself before me? Since he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his time. I will bring the evil upon his house during the reign of his son.'" 1 Kings 21:28-29.\n\nSee also the contrasting narrative in 2 Kings 4.
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under the pyramid where it says The great seal
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What the hell's a moby track?
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The Pyramid has 13 layers of stone for the original 13 colonies.The Latin above the pyramid, ANNUIT COEPTIS, means "God has favored our undertaking." Benjamin Franklin, who was on the committee to design the picture, believed that one man couldn't do it alone, but a group of men with the help of God could do anything. The Latin below the pyramid, NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM, is interpreted to mean "a new order for the world." At the base of the pyramid is the Roman Numeral for 1776.  \n  The eye is the eye of Providence.  It signified God watching over America and her progress(note that the pyramid is unfinished and has more growing to do).
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The conch symbolizes power and social order. A turning point of the book is when the boys disreguard the authority of the conch (they don't listen to Piggy when he has it), from this point their society falls into disarray and chaos.
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At the end of the book, Sam becomes a bird. At the end of the episode, Judith is turned to stone.
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The "stick sharpened at both ends" is a reference to what they did with the Lord of the Flies, impaling one end in the head and the other in the ground. This shows the brutality of what they planned to do to Ralph, who indeed felt like a pig being hunted by the savages. The fire set on the entire island shows the tribe's complete lack of foresight, as if they were not rescued, they would have no food or shelter. Ironically, the fire meant for evil started by Jack turned out to be what got the boys saved. The arrival of the Naval officer thus seems like a happy and ironic ending, but if one digs deeper it is just a continuation from one war to another. Once all the boys get on the Navy cruiser, they'll most likely just be subjected to more battle and fighting, this time on a worldwide level, due to the war taking place in the outside world.
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It is refering to a creature which is huge. Namely a dinosaur. God is telling job that none could tame such a beast.. And in the same way you cannot tame God or control him. God was using the Behemoth as an example to Job. =)\n\nBehemouth\n\n has the following attributes according to Job 40:15-24\n\n\nIt “eats grass like an ox.” \nIt “moves his tail like a cedar.” (In Hebrew, this literally reads, “he lets hang his tail like a cedar.”) \nIts “bones are like beams of bronze,\nHis ribs like bars of iron.” \n“He is the first of the ways of God.” \n“He lies under the lotus trees,\nIn a covert of reeds and marsh.” \n\n\nWe would expect behemoth to be a large land animal whose bones are like beams of bronze and so forth, so whatever a behemoth is, it is large. A key phrase is “He is the first of the ways of God.” This phrase in the original Hebrew implied that behemoth was the biggest animal created. Although an elephant or a hippopotamus are big, they are less than one-tenth the size of a Brachiosaurus, the largest (complete) dinosaur ever discovered.[1] A Brachiosaurus could therefore easily be described as “the first of the ways of God.”
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at a bit of a loss on thisone Anubis was the God of the underworld he and Thoth passed judgement on Souls Thoth the God of wisdom maybe if you look at drawings description of these two you will be able to find the symbol you are seeking , apart from that can't help much on this one
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The back of the book will mention the oar O. had to carry.\n\nRead the book, already! It's the best adventure story ever written. There's lotsa sex!\n\nAnd if you want to impress your teacher, notice that whenever O. takes a bath, the goddess -- or her representative -- is present.
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I don't think anybody's sure it IS a pyramid yet.\n\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4912040.stm\n\nHere's more information :\n\nhttp://msnbc.msn.com/id/12402157/
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I love the Mummy movies. I always assumed that his organs had been removed but that the curse kept him semi-alive even without them. He needed to replace the organs by taking them from the tomb robbers. Seti I was the Pharaoh in this, and he gets a bad deal, imo. The book "The Search for Om Sety" is a very interesting read for anybody interested in Seti I and ancient Egypt.
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All the evidence points to a former global technoculture that once thrived upon the Earth as the original builders of the Great Pyramid and the pyramid complex of Giza.  This former civilization predates the Ancient Egyptians.  The Bible Code identifies Joseph of Genesis as the Chief Builder of the pyramids of Egypt.  Our linear and evolutionary history is inaccurate.  Even Plato stated that there have been several "Earth Ages" predating our current Earth Age, and that there were former civilizations in the world whose advance technology far surpassed the height of the Classic Greek culture.  In the temple of Karnak on an upper column are hieroglyphic images depicting aircraft and industrial-type helicopters moving massive stones.  The myth of the destruction of the "fable" Atlantis is actually a record of the cosmo-cataclysmic destruction of a former global technoculture.  Our Solar System is interlocked with the Sirius Binary System, the other half of our system.  The two were formerly united, but split in half when our paternal star, Sirius B, exploded into a Nebula Discontinuity Event, creating the celestial dynamics that split our original Osirian Trinary Stellar System in half.  The two systems interpenetrate through each other in an extinction level transversion, the Sirian-Solar Reconvergence, a 12,000-year recurrent and cyclic event.  It is this event that destroys each global technoculture when they are at their zenith of technological sophistication, catapulting the few catastrophic survivors back into a State of Neobarbarism to begin the slow and incremental process of re-civilization all over again.  Additionally, Plato stated that the Great Pyramid was constructed to determine the arrival of Sirius (the Sirian-Solar Reconvergence).  It is a “stone calculator” along with the Great Sphinx (the same goes for Stonehenge), aligned to the three stars in Orion’s Belt that represent the three stars that once formed our trinary system, the Sirian Trichotomy, Sirius B (Osiris), Sirius A (Isis) and Sirius C (our Sun, Sol).  Simultaneously, the three pyramids are symbolic of the three Orion stars, and are also synonymous with the Sirian Trichotomy.  The Sphinx is aligned to the Constellation Orion, which ascends to its zenith in 6,000 years, and descends to the horizon in another 6,000 years.  When Orion is at its zenith maximum, then the Sirian-Solar Convergence and the subsequent destruction of the Earth and the annihilation of our current civilization will ensue.  This will occur in about 15 years.