Prologue
King Khufu rose from his throne, parted the curtains to the royal tent and peered through the blowing sand. He stared at his greatest achievement: the Great Pyramid of Giza. His “stairway to heaven” stood hundreds of feet, and it would remain the tallest man-made construction in the world for thousands of years. The pyramid weighed millions of tons and had taken ten years to build. But there is still one more thing to do, he thought.
He focused on a female black cat with two crazy eyes. One glittered in gold and the other was a brilliant jade green. King Khufu found the black cat with the white star pattern on her forehead by his royal tent on the plains of Giza. The cat appeared to be in good shape, but she was tired and somehow, he felt she needed his help. He invited the cat into his tent and had some finely chopped meat and goat’s milk served to him.
King Khufu succeeded his father, Sneferu, as the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty in twenty-fifth century BC. His goal had always been to build a stairway to the Heavens for Geb, the God of Earth, but his crude pyramid designs kept failing in the construction process. His workers, the Yoruba Tribe, struggled with placing the massive stone blocks. He felt overwhelmed with the task—that is, until his chance encounter and kindness to a wandering black cat.
His kindness to the cat was paid many times over because the telepathic cat could communicate with King Khufu. It soon became obvious the cat had tremendous power and was beyond mankind. Through the king, she taught the workers of the Yoruba Tribe how to levitate the immense stones and securely build the pyramid so it would stand for ages. The king gave the cat a title and named her Bastet, the Protector of Pharaohs and the Mother of Fertility, for she had brought life to the pyramid.
Bastet had traveled with Starman Ra to planet Earth to build giant power generators. Their mission was to create them disguised as pyramids. She taught the king how to leverage Earth’s harmonics and levitate the two million massive stone blocks required for the Great Pyramid. She explained to the king how to stack the blocks in a perfect North-South orientation. The King did not know the pyramid oriented to Bastet’s home: Orion’s Belt.
King Khufu thought Bastet was a gift from the gods. With her amazing powers, she took the thirty-year construction task and accomplished it in ten years. “Unbelievable. Thank you, Bastet,” King Khufu said. He honored Bastet with a black onyx ring engraved with the likeness of a black cat with a white star pattern on her forehead. He told Bastet the ring had a special inscription to her; the king would wear it in tribute to his protector and friend.
King Khufu peered out of the royal tent and said, “Time to place the capstone, Bastet.”
The polished capstone was the pyramidion sacred cap for the finished Great Pyramid. Polished to a sheen, it weighed several tons and required delicacy in its placement. Bastet looked up to the king then leaped from his silk cushion. She raised her head to behold the giant monument and thought, “We have attained our goal with the pyramid.”
Bastet knew the capstone was required to bring life to the pyramid. She hunched lower, focusing on the polished capstone, and her body quivered. Her golden eye glowed and trembled. The ground shook and dust blew beneath the capstone.
Bastet levitated the capstone from the Great Plains toward the apex of the pyramid. With great precision, Bastet lowered the capstone and anchored it to the top. She projected an electrical energy bolt toward the capstone and initialized it. Sparks and balls of fire bounced down the steeped sides of the Great Pyramid.
Bastet felt the harmonic vibrations of the pyramid begin. She never had the chance to communicate with Starman Ra that she had finished the project and the pyramid was active because she saw the Great Pyramid glow and vibrate. Then, an immense jolt of power knocked her unconscious and her world went forever black.
