释义 |
ˌpyramiˈdology [f. pyramido- + -logy.] The study of or theories about the mathematical or occult significance of the measurements of the Great Pyramid. Hence ˌpyramidoˈlogical; pyramiˈdologist.
1924Davidson & Aldersmith Great Pyramid I. p. xi, The reader..will probably have realised that Pyramidology, for over sixty years, has consisted of intuitions, and theories based on these intuitions. 1948‘N. Shute’ No Highway i. 4 ‘Call yourself a scientist, and you don't know pyramidology!’.. ‘Well, I don't. What is it?’ ‘It's all about the Great Pyramid, in Egypt. Prophecies, and all that sort of thing.’ 1954A. Huxley Let. 12 Dec. (1969) 719 What may be called the Baconian-pyramidological-cryptographic-spiritualist-theosophical syndrome afflicts a large percentage of the human race. 1964Listener 23 July 117/2 Taylor..believed that he had found various mathematical truths in its [sc. the Great Pyramid's] measurements which showed him that the Egyptian priests knew most..of the secrets of the universe... Taylor was, therefore, the founder [1859] of the cult of pyramidology. 1972Guardian 5 Oct. 17/7 Some comfort for would-be biological pyramidologists—cycles are real. 1974Nature 2 Aug. 448/1 Somewhere about here one crosses the transitional zone between statistics and pyramidology. Ibid., Like the pyramidologists he clearly believes that man should be very alert to the hidden meanings buried in the depths of what appear to be fairly straight forward objects or events. |