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Royal Crown Cola was a favorite of mine as a boy; but I didn’t pay all that much attention to those yellow pyramids on the bottles of RC. The color scheme was attractive, and the twelve-ounces for a nickel was a good deal and it tasted good. It would take a while before I began to wonder about those pyramids as well as the pyramid on dollar bills. It finally occurred to me that such pyramids were actually “alien” shapes that did not normally occur in nature and were not used in conventional structures. And the more I thought about this, the more the word “alien” suggested itself in respect to pyramids such as those of Giza, the smooth-sided kind like the Great Pyramid rather than the far more common step-pyramids found in so many other places globally. Four-sided structures are easy to understand, even those of step-pyramids, but not those formed of smooth sides reaching a pointed apex. To use a good Southern expression like that of Mammy in GWTW,...
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