@mona@cybre.space ok well prefaced with all this is IIRC, but:

part of the reason they vilified her was because she was the first in the line of Ptolemaic governors who bothered to actually *learn* anything about Egypt. she learned the language, revived the use of heiroglyphics, and began doing the traditional rituals that had been the jobs of the pharohs, and as a result the Egyptian people *adored* her.

@mona@cybre.space the Kemetic religion is all about adherence to tradition and rituals; it's how they managed to keep a continuitous society going for *two thousand years*. so when the Greeks said "enh we're not going to bother with your stupid religion, just worship our gods instead," it was incredibly traumatic to the Egyptians.

and it wasn't the first time it had happened; the reason for the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms was because of the "interregnums" of non-Egyptian rule.

@mona@cybre.space aaanyway, the thing about the pyramids is that they were built way WAY long ago, back in the early half of the Old Kingdom. and they built a *lot* of them, all over the place. but (again IIRC) by the end of the Old Kingdom period, they were starting to have difficulty transmitting the information; and by the Middle Kingdom, they didn't know how to make them any more. (which is also how Khufu the architect became a god!)