pyramidologyn.
/ˌpɪrəmᵻˈdɒlədʒi/, U.S. /ˌpɪrəməˈdɑlədʒi/ A system of belief or branch of study based on the supposed occult or religious significance of the Egyptian pyramids, esp. in relation to the dimensions of the Great Pyramid of Cheops at Giza. Cf. Great Pyramid prophecy n. at great adj., n., adv., and int. Compounds 1e.
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the world > the supernatural > the occult > [noun] > pyramidology
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by symbols, letters, figures, etc. > [noun] > by the measurements of the Great Pyramid
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1924 D. Davidson & H. 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.’
1964 Listener 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 [in 1859] of the cult of pyramidology.
1996 C. Sagan Demon-haunted World xiii. 208 The belief that razor blades stay sharper when kept inside small cardboard pyramids, and other tenets of ‘pyramidology’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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