Before Christianity... before Judaism..

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Teti was the founder of the Sixth Dynasty - which lasted roughly 160 years before it collapsed into the economic/political unrest known as the First Intermediate Period. The Pyramid Texts appeared first in the tomb of his immediate predecessor, Unas, last king of the 5th Dynasty. Unas' predecessor, Djedkare, did not fare much better than the others when it came to pyramid building.



Then again, he followed Menkauhor whose "pyramid"



looks like shit, too.

Not to worry because the pyramid of his predecessor, Nyuserre, is pristine...



Oh, wait....it's a piece of shit, as well.

Before him came Neferefre.. who built...



shit, too.

We could go all the way back to Userkaf who founded the 5th Dynasty

and his pyramid looks like all the rest.



The last king of the 4th dynasty, Shepsekaf didn't rule long enough to build a pyramid but he followed Menkaure who is alleged to have built the last Giza pyramid.



Small, but perfect. So throughout the 5th and 6th Dynasties the kings kept building pyramids but if we accept the story line put out by Egyptologists it looks like they lost the secret all on their own. These dynasties lasted for long periods of time ( unlike the rapid political changes apparent in the First Intermediate Period) and are not indicative of a nation in any great distress.