on Easter Island, they wondered for years how those big statues were put in place...till someone asked the remnants of the locals...who showed them. Ropes and rollers and muscles and, yes, digging holes and building mounds and slowly upending them!

Some folks are so enamored by the IDEA of metaphysical and mystical and 'different' physical notions that they will discount the obvious bulk of evidence in favor of arcane 'maybes'. (sorry kat, me love, but metaphysical theories you like are no stronger in reality than those you DON'T like)

(ummm ...Donuel, I DID Google "pyramid pump" Donuel, and the 3rd hit was http://skepdic.com/refuge/pharoahspump.html, a page devoted to showing that the pump/water system idea does not work...sorry!)