"Serpent in the Sky: The Higher Wisdom of Ancient Egypt" by John Anthony West

Revised edition of a modern classic challenging all that has been accepted as dogma about ancient Egypt. This book is an excellent resource for those who wish to separate the 'wheat from the chaff', and go beyond the half truths and assumptions of mainstream academia. Ancient Egypt is a great place to start being that it is the foundation of western civilization, not Greece as we are taught.

This book is a step toward helping one recognize that there might be something to be gained by reforming our thought patterns and exploring other subject matter such as harmonics, proportions & volume; and incorporating these concepts into our everyday living experience.

Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword to the first edition
Foreword to the revised edition
Preface
Introduction
Pythagoras Rides Again
-The development of orthodox Egyptology in the historical context
-The pyramids and pyramidology
-The Symbolist interpretation of Egypt
-Pvthagoreanism in history
-Looking for phi
-The question of secrecy
-The linguistic thesis
-The mathematical thesis
-Number: key to function, process and principle
Serpent in the Sky
-Science and Art in Ancient Egypt
-Astronomy
-The calendar
-Mathematics
-The exception: 2/3
-Medicine
-The Edwin Smith surgical papyrus
-Science and Art in Ancient Egypt
Myth, symbolism, language, literature
-Symbolism
-Language
-Literature
-The Eloquent Peasant
The Temple of Man
-The axes
-Deliberate effacement of reliefs and inscriptions
-The old as 'seed' of the new
-The grid
-The Royal Apron
-Meaning of the axes
-The five kings of the Holy of Holies
Egypt: Heir to Atlantis
-The origins of Egyptian civilisation
-The mystery of the Sphinx and the riddle of'Atlantis'
-The evidence: two approaches
-How 'hard' is geology?
-The nature of the erosion of the Sphinx
-The evidence: positive approach
-The evidence: negative approach
-The Sphinx and the sand
-Erosion damage to other Egyptian temples and monuments
-Chemical weathering and insolation
-Chephren: non-builder of the Sphinx
-The riddle of the face
-A question of style
-Suggestions and one answer
-The unasked question
-Summary
-Atlantis: a brief recapitulation
-The orthodox view
-Egyptian chronological accounts
-The implications
Appendix I : The Gauri/Lehner survey
Appendix II: Sphinx update
Afterword: Ringing out the old
-La Querelle des Egyptologues
-Prophets on Hold
-Fortress Egypt
-Laying Siege to Switzerland or: Prophets with Firepower
Selected bibliography
Index