Israelites.”8 His book also correlates the Star of David symbol with the Great Pyramid. He continues, “it is of no coincidence that the Magen David…which more popularly known as the Star of David, (a.k.a. Seal of Solomon) one of the most potent symbols of modern Judaism is formed from two interlocking pyramids (one being inverted).”9
Not only do they give appealing and persuasive arguments, but evidence does exist to support both sites simultaneously. Moses could have climbed the Great Pyramid, as one would a mountain, before entering into it and following the passages, making his pilgrimage with God. Serabit el-Khadim would have been similar since it was filled with caverns and mining tunnels for turquoise and copper which could be used the same way.
The mineral turquoise is found from a gem-quality to a chalk-like category. According to Dr. Schoch and other sources, Serabit el-Khadim was known for mining a very pure turquoise gemstone, unique and valued for its sky blue color. Moses was raised by the royal Egyptian family and surely with the esoteric knowledge of Egypt along with the Great Pyramid and all its symbolism, as referred to earlier by Acts 7:22. He would also then have knowledge of this Egyptian outpost for mining and the importance of the gemstone turquoise.
In Exodus 24: 9-10 of the Bible, Moses, Aaron, and seventy elders went up the holy mountain to meet God. The ground God was standing on was described as “a sapphire pavement pure as the heavens themselves.”10 Rather than referring to the blue gemstone sapphire, it is possible that it was turquoise instead. An ancient miscommunication or error in translation could have easily caused the substitution. It is likely that the quality of the turquoise-laden mountains found at Serabit el-Khadim may indeed have resembled or be depicted as a sapphire pavement. This would also fit in with the goddess Hathor, not only as the golden calf, but as the Mistress of Turquoise of the area.
It is also likely that the tablets containing the Ten Commandments brought down by Moses from a mountain filled with turquoise would have been carved from turquoise laden stone. (This theory of turquoise tablets including the significance of turquoise and its structure will be discussed in the next chapter.) According to the Bible, the tablets were kept in the Ark of the Covenant and transported by the Israelites with Moses. It has been suggested that the dimensions of the Ark fit perfectly inside the coffer in the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid,11 thus the tablets may have been housed in the granite sarcophagus.
Again the six-pointed star could have meanings at multiple levels and also represent both the Mount Sinai at Serabit el-Khadim and the Great Pyramid. The upright triangle can represent the spiritual mountain of the Great Pyramid, and the inverted triangle the natural physical earth mountain. The Tablets of the Law also represented both the laws involving God and those involving man. Observing these laws perfected man or made man whole in all aspects: “as above, so below” to use the phrase from The Emerald Tablet, a cryptic text reported to be the foundation alchemists attributed to Hermes Trismegistus.12
It is also interesting to note that a search of the authorized King James Version of the Bible for the word Horeb results in seventeen verse references and Sinai appears in twice that number at thirty-four. (See the chart below.) Could this be a coded identification to mark both sites?
Sinai13
KJV Verse Count
| Exodus | 13 | |
| Leviticus | 4 | |
| Numbers | 12 | |
| Deuteronomy | 1 | |
| Judges | 1 | |
| Nehemiah | 1 | |
| Psalms | 2 | |
| Total | 34 |
Horeb14
KJV Verse Count
| Exodus | 3 | |
| Deuteronomy | 9 | |
| 1 Kings | 2 | |
| 2 Chronicles | 1 | |
| Psalms | 1 | |
| Malachi | 1 | |
| Total | 17 |
Further, the total adds to 51, curiously the angle of the sides of the Great Pyramid (51 degrees). Pictured below are two pyramidal-shaped peaks that can be seen as a person approaches Serabit el-Khadim. Perhaps the twin peaks each represent seventeen verses, totaling 34, while Horeb (Sinai) represents 17 (34). The number 17 also appears in the Cayce readings for the seventeen missing years of Jesus, accordingly both he and John the Baptist went to the Great Pyramid for their final initiation. Also, the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten, the heretic pharaoh who attempted to bring a style of monotheism to Egypt, had a reign that lasted seventeen years.
Fig. 3.3—Serabit al-Khadim
The different names for the holy mountain of God may also help identify the two sites. Sinai translates as thorny, where these pictured twin peaks can be found while Horeb translates as desert and/or sword, not only identifying the shape of the Great Pyramid, like a tip of a sword or Benben stone and desert to link it to Serabit el-Khadim. A synonym for thorn(y) is spine and an important connection of the Great Pyramid being on the Giza Plateau which was dedicated to Osiris, whose symbol, the Djed, represented his spine, thus could be linking Serabit el-Khadim back to the Great Pyramid. The cubit to the human spine and central nervous system with these links will be discussed in a later chapter. Choosing a site because close-by mountains are pyramidally shaped is not unprecedented in Egypt. Egyptologists believe that is why the site of the Valley of the Kings was chosen to bury their royalty with a pyramid-shaped mountain looking over it. (See color Fig. 1.) This King's Valley pyramidal mountain was named Ta Dehent (the peak) by the Egyptians and was inhabited by Meret Seger (she who loves silence), an Egyptian serpent goddess who protected the area. The importance of the symbolism of the serpent and its inhabiting a pyramidal mountain will be elaborated upon in detail in Chapter 11.
Another possible reason for two sites can be inferred by their positioning and symbolic relations to the sun and moon. The Egyptians can be considered sun worshipers through their god Ra or Re represented as the sun. The Great Pyramid in its original state of white, polished tura limestone would gleam brilliantly, reflecting the sun, whereas the twin peaks of Serabit el-Khadim would represent the moon. It was shown that Hebrew translates Sinai as thorny, but the Middle Eastern translation of Sinai relates to Sin, the moon goddess of the Sumerians, Assyrians, and Babylonians. For these culture the twin peaks are found in the “wilderness of Sin” (see previous map), and they could be representative of the horns of a crescent moon. Thus the masculine and feminine aspects of God are represented. This can be seen in the headdress of Hathor herself with the sun (Ra) nestled between her crescent horns.
As a final note, the fact that the mountain region of Serabit el-Khadim was mined almost 9,000 years ago for copper and turquoise brings up an interesting possibility. It is known that the turquoise of the area was prized for its pure sky blue color representative of the heavens. The “fallen sky stone” is a common appellation for turquoise. Copper may also be extremely significant. Not only is copper one of the oldest mined metals and the precursor of the Bronze Age, but it is also associated with the evolvement of civilization and has some unique qualities. Copper, freshly sheared or smelted, has a distinct odor similar to that of fresh blood—an analogy used historically by murder mystery authors. You can experience this phenomenon by rubbing two copper pennies (prior to 1992 when they were mainly copper) together for about thirty seconds and you will experience this odor.
Even the color of copper, with its reddish hue, connects it to blood. The very ore in the mountain itself is described as being in veins! (See color Fig. 2.) It would not be too farfetched
