The Atlantis Legacy - A01-A02 by Thomas Greanias

well be the original on which the Great Pyramid in Giza was modeled, except on a much grander scale. In other words, P4 is the real deal and the Great Pyramid that Khufu built is an inferior clay replica.”
    “Your best guess?” Yeats repeated. “I can’t work off hunches, son.”
    “It’s more than that,” Conrad said. “Your own data says the base is aligned at the cardinal points—north, south, east, and west. It’s also sloped at an angle of fifty-one degrees, fifty-two minutes—just like the Great Pyramid. And knowing what I do about the Great Pyramid, up close and personal, I can make some educated guesses about P4.”
    Yeats exhaled. “Like what?”
    “Like the probability that P4 is a representation of the Southern Hemisphere of Earth.”
    “Whereas the Great Pyramid in Egypt is a representation of the Northern Hemisphere of Earth,” Yeats said. “I get it. So what?”
    Conrad crossed the floor to the desk and tapped a few keys onhis laptop. “The hemisphere is projected on flat surfaces as is done in mapmaking.” He turned his laptop around so Yeats could see the graphic on his screen. It looked like a German cross. “This is the pyramid if we flattened it out. The apex represents the South Pole, and the perimeter represents the equator.”
    “Go on.”
    “This is the reason why the perimeter is in relation two pi to the height,” Conrad explained. “P4 thus represents the Southern Hemisphere on a scale of one to forty-three thousand two hundred.”
    “Represents the Southern Hemisphere in relationship to what?” Yeats asked.
    “The heavens,” said Conrad. “The ancients associated certain meanings with various constellations. Once I determine this pyramid’s celestial counterpart in the skies we’ll have a better idea of its function.”
    “Function?” Yeats repeated. “It’s a tomb, right?”
    “Pyramids themselves were never designed to serve as burial places, although they were used that way in some cases,” Conrad said. “Their higher purpose was connected to the ancient king’s quest for eternal life. To attain it he would have to participate in the discovery of a revelation that would unveil the mystery of ‘First Time.’”
    “First Time?” Yeats stared hard at him. “What’s that?”
    “It’s the secret of Creation,” Conrad said. “How the universe was formed, how we got here, where we’re going.”
    “Where we’re going? Now how the hell would the builders of P4 know that?”
    “The ancients believed that the cosmic calendar resets itself every twenty-six thousand years or so,” Conrad said. “Each epoch of time ends in some cataclysm leading to a new creation or age. Survivors of such global extinction events would naturally want to warn future generations.”
    “So this secret goes all the way back to Genesis?”
    “Earlier than that,” Conrad said. “According to Aztec and Mayan myths, there have been at least five Suns or Creations. This is allegedly the Fifth Sun we’re living in.”
    “What happened to the Fourth Sun?” Yeats demanded.
    “Well, according to the ancients, it was destroyed by the GreatFlood,” Conrad said. “Based on the four rings we found on the benben stone, my guess is that P4 was built at the very dawn of the Fourth Sun, just after the destruction of the Third Sun, right around the time the biblical story of Genesis says God created the heavens and the earth.”
    “You just told me P4 goes further back than that.”
    “That’s because inside the pyramid I expect to find a repository of knowledge from the previous three Suns,” Conrad said. “It might even contain the secret of First Time itself, something older than the known universe.”
    Yeats started pacing back and forth, unable to contain his excitement. His bum leg was killing him, but he didn’t care. “You sure about all this?”
    “Won’t be until I get inside.” Conrad’s face darkened. “But it’s fair to assume that, whatever else is down