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Karnak
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Estatua de Pinedyem I en el primer patio del templo de Amón en Karnak.
Karnak (al-Karnak,الكرنك, "ciudad fortificada", llamada en el Antiguo Egipto Ipet sut, "el lugar más venerado") es una pequeña población de Egipto, situada en la ribera oriental del río Nilo, junto a Luxor. Era la zona de la antigua Tebas que albergaba el complejo religioso más importante del Antiguo Egipto.
Forma parte del conjunto denominado Antigua Tebas con sus necrópolis, declarado Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco en 1979. Es el conjunto de templos más grande de Egipto.
[editar] Complejo de templos de Karnak
Durante siglos, este lugar fue el más influyente centro religioso egipcio. El templo principal estaba dedicado al culto del dios Amón, pero como en otros templos egipcios también se veneraba a otras divinidades.
El complejo de templos de Karnak lo componen:
Existía también un lago sagrado, numerosos templetes y capillas de menor tamaño, y múltiples estancias y almacenes situados dentro de los muros que circundaban el recinto principal.
La diferencia principal entre el templo de Amón en Karnak, que Diodoro de Sicilia afirma ser el más antiguo de Tebas, y la mayoría de los templos egipcios es el tiempo y esfuerzo empleados en su construcción y posteriores ampliaciones. Unos treinta faraones contribuyeron con sus edificaciones convirtiendo al complejo en un conjunto, que por su tamaño (unas treinta hectáreas), no se había conocido jamás.
La entrada, entre dos inmensos pilonos, está precedido por un dromos ("camino del dios") o avenida de esfinges, con cabeza de carnero, símbolos del dios Amón. Se accede a un gran patio porticado donde se encuentra, a la izquierda, un templete del faraón Seti II, una de las columnas de Taharqo y la monumental estatua de Pinedyem I, a la derecha el templo de Ramsés III, al frente, la sala hipóstila, y un poco más al fondo, los obeliscos de Thutmose I y Hatshepsut; después hay una serie de estancias, con patios menores, y el santuario, a los que sólo tenían acceso el faraón y los sacerdotes.
La sala hipóstila de Karnak es una de las partes más singulares del conjunto religioso. Con 23 metros de altura, es un espacio arquitectónico cuya cubierta está sustentada por 134 gigantescas columnas que son más altas en las dos filas centrales, conformando un gran pasillo, cuya disposición posibilita iluminar desde el eje de la sala. Como material se utilizó la piedra, tallada en bloques que conforman los tambores de las columnas. Estas sustentaban en basas y terminaban en gigantescos capiteles papiriformes y campaniformes, sobre los cuales se apostaban enormes dinteles que sostenían una cubierta adintelada. Los fustes de tan colosales columnas se encontraban decorados con relieves polícromos, encargados de complementar la grandiosidad del lugar sagrado.
En el antiguo Egipto, la construcción de los templos se iniciaba siempre por el santuario, lo que significa que Karnak se comenzó por el centro y se terminó de construir por las entradas al recinto. Todo el conjunto estaba ricamente decorado y pintado en vivos colores.
Después de las pirámides de Guiza, es el segundo lugar más visitado de Egipto.
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- Excavaciones
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Then next shock didn't make me spill my coffee because I was prepared for this one. Maybe you are too. How closely have you been following?If you've gone and watched Part 7 of 9 to see for yourself the scene with the calendar, you may have noticed a very curious reference. Ravic is standing at the bar and he orders a pack of cigarettes, Chesterfields, from memory, but I may have that wrong. He orders them by brand is the point. A busboy then appears at the bar and makes a loud pointed order for another pack of cigarettes, for one of the customers. This time, the brand is:Osiris cigarettes, with gold-tips.I had to listen a few times to make sure I was hearing it right. Then I had to watch the previous reel to work out that it was Haake, the Nazi, who ordered the cigarettes from the busboy. He specified them: Osiris cigarettes, with gold tips. Was there ever any such brand as Osiris cigarettes?No. There never were any Osiris brand cigarettes, let alone gold-tipped ones. Google it and there's nothing.Well, that's interesting isn't it. Osiris. Gold tipped. Osiris. Gold tipped.Wait:
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The Luxor Obelisk (French: Obélisque de Louxor) is a 23 metres (75 ft) high Egyptian obelisk standing at the center of the Place de la Concorde in Paris,France. It was originally located at the entrance to Luxor Temple, in Egypt.
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Missing its original pyramidion (believed stolen in the 6th century BC), the government of France added a gold-leafed pyramid cap to the top of the obelisk in 1998. |
What, symbolically, does the obelisk represent? It's simple really:
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| "Wherever you see an obelisk, you are looking at a representation of the Egyptian god Osiris's lost penis.| |
So, it's a pretty obvious symbolic equation:Osiris gold-tipped cigarettes = Obelisk of Luxor in Place de la Concorde.When I sat down to read the book, this was one of the things I was eager to trace. Is the Osiris reference in the book as well?It certainly is. But it's not a cigarette. It's the name of the brothel where various scenes in the book take place. What has happened is that in the movie, all explicit references to the brothel subplot have been shifted to just below the surface. It must have been deemed too “delicate” for the sensitivities of the time, or something. So, the 1948 movie slightly re-arranges some of the plot points, to not make the brothel business quite so obvious. In doing so, the movie loses the reference to the Osiris brothel as it appears in the book.So look what they have done! Rather than lose the reference, they have transmuted it into the “Osiris brand, gold -tipped cigarettes”. It is obvious now that it was critical that this key word, or trigger word, or plot word, be present in the movie. It is also obvious that they transferred the same symbolism. The Osiris brothel has become the Osiris cigarette/obelisk/penis, in other words nothing has really changed.By the 1985 movie version, times have changed, and the brothel and all of it's plot relevance has been restored to the story. There is even a nice big neon sign over the entrance to the brothel: Osiris.  So this Osiris reference is a key trigger word which is embedded throughout the entire saga: book 1945 , movie 1948 and movie 1985.From the Luxor Obeliskin the Place de la Concorde, the Champs Elysees stretches away up the slightly rising hill hill towards the Arc de Triomphe.   Next quote: One of the recurring characters is a doctor, named Charles. Again, this name is changed in the 1948 movie. So that is two references to Charles in the book so far, both changed to other names in the film.And next, another extraordinary scene. It begins with an exact time: 4am.This is, of course, the time that Diana's death was pronounced. Four o'clock in the morning.  That really is an incredible thing. The direct association of the character Joan, with 4 oc'clock in the morning, death, and a sea of flowers. In Europe, the chrysanthemum is the flower of mourning.It's as if all the elements are in place, and all that remains is for Joan to be explicitly identified as Diana. We are getting closer.And then it comes. Ravic and Joan are up late talking. And this exchange takes place:  Ravic actually calls Joan: Diana. Then they decide to go for a holiday to Cannes, or Antibes....
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'Sirius and Orion sailing across the sky at Dendera.'
Sirius and Orion are sailing across the firmament in boats on the astronomical ceiling in the outer hypostyle hall of the Hathor Temple at Dendera. The ceiling consists of seven separate strips but here we are looking at a detail of the upper register of the EASTERNMOST STRIP.
The star Sirius, or Sothis as it was known by the Egyptians, is depicted here as a reclining cow on a boat but the star was also identified with the goddess Isis. The rise of Sirius on the eastern horizon, after a few weeks of invisibility, signaled the beginning of the summer Nile flood for the Egyptians and the beginning of the New Year.
The second boat carries a god who personifies the constellation Orion, or Sahu as he was called by the Egyptians. The text above the god describes him as 'Sahu, the soul (ba) of Osiris' and thus it can be understood that Osiris is looking back at his wife Isis (in the shape of a cow) to see if she is following him across the sky. Orion/Osiris as a god looking back first appears in Egyptian iconography in stars clocks on coffin
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I have discussed the advanced astronomical knowledge of the Dogon people of Mali. The Dogon believe that they came from Ancient Egypt, Kemet. In this piece, we are going to touch lightly on some of their knowledge of the constellations. I confess that I am not doing my ancestors any justice by such a very scanty piece.
The Ancient Egyptians (Kemites) 3,000 years ago were the first to record the variability of a distant star – and their records could provide useful information for astronomers today.
This star, the brightest star known to us as Sirius, the dog-star, has great meaning to our ancestors of Kemet (modern-day Egypt), and their descendants the Dogon tribe of Mali. The Kemites could predict the flooding of the Nile by observing the movement of Sirius, and such studies led them to develop the calendar which we use today.
The Kemites knew at least 43 constellations in the 13th century B.C. In 1100 B.C. Amenhope wrote the "Catalog of the Universe" in which he identified the major known constellations.
The Kemites believed in a spherical earth revolving on its own axis while inferior planets like Mercury and Venus revolve around the Sun. They also knew about five planets, the retrograde motion of Mars was known, the revolution of Mercury and Venus around the Sun was known. This is what Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius termed the “Egyptian system,” and went on to say that "it did not escape the skill of the Egyptians."
Ancient Egyptians were very interested in the night sky. They were drawn to two bright stars in the North Pole: "the indestructibles" or what we called today as Kochab, in the bowl of the Little Dipper (Ursa Minor), and Mizar, in the middle of the handle of the Big Dipper (Ursa Major).
One great evidence of their mastery of the constellations and how their belief in the afterlife can be best illustrated in the sophisticated, decorative illustrations on the roof of the tombs of Rameses VI and Rameses IX in the valley of the Kings in present-day Luxor.
Kemetic astronomy, astrology and religious rites were intermingled. The periods and durations of religious rituals were systematically determined by studying and recording the movements of heavenly bodies, the sun, moon, constellations and stars. These can be evidenced from records found in temples. They built their pyramids and other major structures in alignment with constellations. This we will explore in the next piece.
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