The Giza pyramids are artificial, sacred mountains which also served the final resting places of Nisuts of the Old Kingdom's Fourth Dynasty (about 2700 BCE). In Kemetic mythology, creation is said to have begun when the Bennu bird (the Greek "phoenix") rose from Nun, the waters of potentiality, upon a mountain known as the Ben-ben. The Ben-ben was pyramidal in shape and images of it were installed in temples.

A pyramid is therefore a large-scale version of the "mountain of creation," within which the body and ka (divine essence) of a deceased Nisut could rest for eternity, and served as a testament to the greatness inherent in and the respect paid to the person of that ruler. The pyramids of Giza, both large and small, are to this day surrounded by mortuary and other temples -- there was no need for the Kemetic people to use the pyramids for temples -- and in addition, to violate the final resting place of anyone, let alone a semi-divine ruler, would have constituted utter blasphemy. Incidentally, these are not the only pyramids in Egypt -- there are literally hundreds of them, large and small, built over Kemet's entire history. The popularity of the pyramids as "initiation chambers" began under late pharaohs trying to impress Greek tourists with their "weird" ancient sites and Greek "mysteries" were undertaken in subterranean chambers -- so the pyramids, empty by that time for hundreds of years, became the enigmatic bearers of the Classical spiritual seekers in their journeys to enlightenment, ignorant of the true purpose of the pyramidal structure or of its use millennia before as a tomb. This idea of the pyramid as a sacred transformative structure -- not far from its original purpose but transformed into the mistaken idea that it could be utilized by any living person -- perpetuated itself into popular belief and remains to this day.

The Sphinx, as well as the three greater Giza pyramids, has a temple before it (why would this be, if these structures were the temples?). The Sphinx (known in Kemetic as "Heru-em-akhet" or "Horus-is-in-His-horizon", a reference to the Nisut in His pyramid) was created as a monument to the Nisut Khafre (Chephren to the Greeks). Many Sphinxes, though none as large as Giza's, exist in Kemet and museums around the world even today, and are a symbol of the might of a Nisut as a rampaging lion.

The idea that the temples and pyramids, etc., of Kemet are "chakra charging" sites owes much to modern misunderstanding, particularly the writings of the "sleeping prophet" Edgar Cayce, who made a number of predictions about the Giza pyramids and Sphinx, yet was unable to discern basic facts about them. For example, he apparently totally missed, in his "astral travels back in time", that the pyramids were originally encased in limestone and red granite and inscribed with hieroglyphs and art (which even Herodotus reports). "Chakra," or wheel, is a Sanskrit term from Hinduism now popularized in the New Age movement as well, denoting centers of vital energy in the human body. There is no direct correlation to chakras in Kemetic philosophy, nor did the Kemetic people ever write about them. This is not to say that ancient sites in Egypt do not contain "energy"; considering the amount of attention paid to them and the mystery built up around them since the loss of the ability to read hieroglyphs, in addition to the number of rites carried out in these places when they were in use, they are very powerful places indeed. However, understandings of the type that Cayce and others have made are modern conjecture and would not have made much sense to the people of Kemet.