I'm off to Egypt in a few weeks, I'll talk to some locals and ask their opinions on the Pyramids and the Sphinx. See what local folklore there
is.
peace...
When death is regarded not as an ultimate dissolution, but rather a transitional (and crucial) stage of a journey, then the apparent Egyptian preoccupation with death becomes exactly the opposite as it seems to be. It is, in fact, a preoccupation with life at its deepest possible sense.
John Anthony West