Wickeyed, if I may chime in with your question about the pyramids and their interesting Orion belt alignment -- yes I do find that an interesting thing, also. Outside help, too.. hmm like aliens who had the technological advantage? Were they so helpful with cultivating the humankind on this planet?
If I may recommend books on this subject - Zecharia Sitchin has allegedly deciphered ancient Sumerian and those writings really reveal a lot. He believes that the residents of Planet X or Nibiru or Marduk are directly responsible for the evolutionary leap in humankind here - how? Genetic manipulation. Created in the Image of God.... perhaps that "God" is one of the Nibiruans. This means we are related to the residents on Nibiru! haha
I'll share a bit on the noted mentions of Hitties and Jews, and their differences.. if that is OK.
Every race is just as precious as another no matter what! My intention is not to insult anyone here or belittle a race at all!
It is said that God was angry that there was much fornication and sinning just right before Noah's Flood.
How about this... God is the pissed off and chagrined Enlil, one of the alien commanders from Nibiru? The "serpent" is Enki, half reptilian half ehh, something.. they were half brothers. Funny thing about brother's keeper with Cain and Abel.
Enlil was not happy that the alien Astronauts (others who came down to earth to mine for gold so the gold would be used for Nibiruans' survival, NOT for its monetary value) --because the Astronanuts mated with the human females, and bore hybrid children.. which we got to call the Hitties. Mixed breed. Didn't the white European boys despise half breed "injuns" also? What about your reaction of seeing a half black, half white child? That child would be gorgeous, nevertheless, but alas, people got their.. ehmmm... whatever you call that about stuff like that.
You see, the fledgling human beings here on earth were clones created by the Nibiruans.. made to mine for gold, and you know how people feel about clones. No soul, and no better than an animal. You can see how pissed off Enlil was about his men screwing animals! Just talking from his point of view. With this said, you could say that the Jews were pure human beings (not "diluted by the Hittie/Nibiruan blood")
Somehow, somewhere in these lines, souls incarnated in these clones and the rest is history.
On the other hand, Enki really loved his creation of the human being -- you could say that he was like a father. He believed that those human beings had the potential for growth, despite having been created in the lab. So he taught some humans the forbidden mysteries and started mystery schools and secret cults.
Let's see... why are some ancient myths from different countries so similar? Odin, Zeus, and all? Let's see... Isis maybe was Inanna, the granddaughter of Anu, who knew her own mind and was kinda a spoilt brat in the Zecharia Sitchin books. She had dominion of Ur, an ancient city in where it is now called Persia I believe. Have you heard the legend of the demigod, Gilgemash and his quest for immortality accompanied by his friend Enkidu? Gilgemash had rejected Inanna's advances and naturally a woman scorned might try to throw a monkeywrench into anyone's plans. Inanna succeeded in screwing Gilgemash's quest by having her father unleash the "Bulls of Heaven" on him. Anyway, this is just a little of what I have read in Sitchin's books! Whooo...
www.sitchin.net
I imagine these pyramids to be some kind of pointers or landmark directions for the landing of the spaceships. Or they are libraries.
More to come, next..... if that is allright?
I'm just doing one version out of many versions on the earth's history and human civilization. Like you, I've always been wondering about things like that when I was growing up and I felt right in doing a lot of research in this area and so.