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Omphale

July 25th, 2011
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Twelve Tribe Nations

In the most ancient times nations divided themselves into twelve tribes:

“All over the world in countries as far apart as China, Ireland, Iceland, and Madagascar are records and traditions of whole nations and their territories being divided into twelve tribes and twelve regions, each tribe and its sector of land corresponding to one of the twelve signs of the zodiac and to one of the twelve months in the year.” -Twelve Tribe Nations: Sacred Number and the Golden Age by John Michell and Christine Rhone

Mirroring the 12-part division of stars on the ground flows from the ancient Hermetic wisdom:

As Above So Below

Ancient Greece

In the archaic period of Greece tribes formed a series of Amphictyonic (ἀμφικτυονία) Leagues meaning a “league of nations.” Examples include the Delian League, the Delphic League, and the Ionian League each of which formed what is called a Dodecapolis, or confederation of twelve settlements.

The Twelve Olympians probably arose from a Dodecapolis.

Every twelve-part division of land had a center point and this center was traditionally marked with a stone. Here is the omphalos stone from Delphi. It was originally topped by two golden eagles because Zeus sent out two eagles to fly across the world to meet at its center, the “navel” of the world.

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On a side note, just as the Ancient Olympics were revived in Athens in 1896, a “League of Nations” was revived after World War 1.

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The League of Nations was the precursor to the United Nations.

A Modern World Omphalos

The Millennium Dome (also known as the O2 Arena) will be a major venue in the London 2012 Olympics. The structure’s twelve masts correspond to the signs of the zodiac and the twelve months in the year. The dome’s diameter of 365m corresponds to the number of days in a year and its 52m height corresponds to the number of weeks in a year.

Millenium Dome

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The center of the Millennium Dome’s is very close to being on the Prime Meridian but is not quite on the line. The exact longitude of this modern world omphalos is 0°0′11.22″E

The numerology of the longitude is as follows: 11 + (11 + 11) = 33. See my posts on Repeating Ones and 33.

Billions of people will focus their psychic energy on this spot next summer.

The official logo of the 2012 Olympics is an example of a subliminal secret in plain sight that your your left brain is probably unaware of (top) but your right brain understands subconsciously (bottom):

2012 Zion

Iran has threatened to boycott the London 2012 Olympics unless the organisers replace the official logo, which Tehran claims spells out the word “Zion”. -Source

The Isle of Dogs

The Millennium Dome is on the Isle of Dogs, which has been a peninsula for hundreds of years. Sirius is known as the dog star because it is in the constellation Canis Major. The goddess Artemis is often depicted with a dog. Artemis is a Greek version of Isis, which makes sense because Sirius is the star of Isis.

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Image courtesy of Stellarium open source software; Constellation art by Johan Meuris

Sirius Sattelite Radio uses a dog with a star for its eye as its symbolic logo recalling Isis to those who have eyes to see and ears to hear.

Fair use of corporate logo

Sardis

The French writer Jean Richer identified the oldest Amphictyonic League in Sardis, Lydia which is in today’s western Turkey.

When you hear the terms the Near East, the Middle East, the Far East, the West, the South, and the North where do you suppose the origin point of all these directions is? Nothing I’ve read has ever answered this question and it has bothered me since first taking history courses in college.

Sardis is the omphalos. The ancient navel of the world.

Sardis

The word omphalos is etymologically connected to Queen Omphale, mythological ruler of Lydia.

Hercules and Omphale 1754

Hercules and Omphale (detail) by Tischbein, Johann Heinrich, der Ältere (1754)

Incidentally I’m not sure if it was Tischbein’s intent but one exposed breast is symbolic of Isis.

In Queen Omphale’s best-known myth, she is the master of the hero Heracles during a year of required servitude, a scenario that offered writers and artists opportunities to explore gender roles and erotic themes.

Paris – Sardis

Drawing a path from Sardis to I.M. Pei’s Louvre Pyramid we see that the axis bisects the Louvre and is aligned perfectly with the entrance to the world’s most visited museum.

The Louvre Museum has 555,000 sq ft in the palace complex devoted to public exhibition. -Source

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This is especially amazing because the Louvre Palace you see today was started in the 16th century and added to by almost every subsequent French monarch. The alignment goes right over the center of the Sun King’s Cour Carrée (Square Court) addition he created before moving to Versailles.

Louvre Cour Carree

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The path from Sardis to the Louvre Pyramid passes directly over the tip of the July Column in the Place de la Bastille. The golden boy atop the July Column is the Greek Hermes, author of the motto “As Above, So Below” in his earlier incarnation as the Egyptian Thoth.

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The path from Sardis goes to Paris along the direction of Virgo as identified by John Michell and Christine Rhone in Twelve Tribe Nations. The first sign of the zodiac (Aries) is aligned toward the rising sun in the east.

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Paris

It is interesting that the path is in the Virgo (Isis) direction because of what Paris is all about (see my Paris episodes). Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval show in their book Talisman how the word Paris comes from Pharia-Isis. Pharia or Pharos in Greek is the location of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, a center of Isis worship in the the ancient Mediterranean.

The Notre Dame (English: Our Lady) cathedral was very likely built over a Druidic Temple of Isis.

The historical axis is offset 6 degrees from the axis running through Pei’s pyramids (both upward and downward pointing) through the July Column all the way to the ancient omphalos at Sardis.

If you watched my Paris videos you’ll recall that this 6 degree bend matches the Temple of Luxor’s bend whose very obelisk is at the center of the 86,400 square meter Place de la Concorde.

Also consider the fact that the Champs-Élysées (the historical axis of Paris) is aligned to the heliacal rising of Sirius, the phenomenon the ancient Egyptians based their calendar on.

The Champs-Élysées or “La plus belle avenue du monde” as it is known in French is one of the most beautiful streets in the world with rents as high as US$1.2 million a year for 1,000 square feet of space. -Source

Champs Elysees

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The name Champs-Élysées is French for Elysian Fields, the place of the blessed dead in Greek mythology. The Elysian Fields are related to the Eleusinian Mysteries which, of all the mysteries celebrated in ancient times, were held to be the ones of greatest importance.

The participants in these mysteries drank a mixture called Kykeon made mainly of water, barley and “naturally occurring substances” that some scholars believe were entheogens.

DMT

Dimethyltryptamine, see my Snowflake and the Flower post

For almost 3000 years people “consistently experienced revelatory states during the culminating ceremony of the Eleusinian Mysteries.” -Source

Eleusis

Phryne at the Poseidonia in Eleusis by Siemiradzki

But where does this naturally occurring substance come from?

The most likely candidate for the DMT containing plant, of which there are many in nature, would be a species of Acacia. -Metzner, Ralph. “The Reunification of the Sacred and the natural”. Eleusis Volume VIII, 1997. pp. 3-13

That’s a hell of a secret in plain sight I’d say (pardon the pun, the mysteries are about helping Demeter find her daughter Persephone in Hades).

According to Diodorus Siculus, the Cretans professed that they received the ‘mysteries’ from the Egyptians, and that they passed them on to the Greeks. Eleusia (Eleusis) was the home of the earth-mother Demeter, but she has older origins that can be seen in the Egyptian mythologies…the mysteries of Isis were the same as those of Demeter and that the mysteries of Osiris were the same as Dionysus. -Source

Acacia in the Osiris Myth

Osiris was tricked by his jealous brother Set, cut into 14 pieces, sealed in a chest and sent down the Nile. The sea carried the chest to Byblos where it lodged in an acacia tree. The tree grew around the chest encasing it and the remains of the god Osiris were preserved inside.

Acacia

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The King of Byblos cut down the tree and turned it into a column in his palace. When Isis learned of the fate of her brother-husband she set out in search of his body. When Isis identified where Osiris was she worked in the king’s court nursing his children. After a time she received the column as her pay. In the tree trunk was the body of Osiris which she magically reassembled and sang back to life with a song.

Resurrection is at the heart of the Eleusinian Mysteries and perhaps is the hope of those who find themselves in the Elysian Fields.

What really went on in the mysteries was kept a secret for almost 3000 years and is now lost to the sands of time. The mysteries were suppressed and the pagan shrines desecrated when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire in the 4th century AD.

Perhaps it is high time we bring them back?

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I.M. Pei’s Louvre pyramid connects the vast wings of the museum to one central location. Most of the space is buried underground, keeping the visual attention on the historic palace.

Was Napoleon’s monument to freedom Elephant of the Bastille a factor in the design? Did astrology form the shapes and arrangement? Johann Kepler charted horoscopes using this same form, and related it to profound scientific laws. Gender is also seen by many in the upright and inverse pyramids. The Louvre, in the heart of Paris, fixes all the problems with Modernism. The shocking form fits in because it was derived by careful study and with thoughtful purpose.

A quick walk a modern obelisk, the Eiffel tower, leads to the Arc de Triumph, copied from ancient Rome. A straight line from there leads to an ancient Roman obelisk, and immediately to the Louvre.

I.M. Pei’s 1989 design for the Pyramide du Louvre at the historic Louvre Palace in Paris France starts with architecture’s most significant symbol: the pyramid. A tunnel descends into structure like the ancient pyramids of Egypt.

The museum spans the entire history of mankind, and so the pyramid itself assumes a futuristic character. Its transparent materials achieve this futurism while opening views to the building surrounding it, and opening natural sunlight into the front lobby. A rather ingenious tension structure is holds the pyramid up.

The La Pyramide Inversée inverted pyramid has been made famous by the Da Vinci Code. But this is just one element of this enormous project, which takes more than a week to properly visit.

Procession To Democracy

Pei’s concept sketches show two axis. The first runs through the park to the Arc de Triumph du Carrousel. Here it meets another tilted axis, which continues on into the Louvre. This Axe Historique is the strongest site axis in the world, extending through central Paris to the city’s modern quarter.

This tilting of spaces at the Arc de Triumph and the pyramid keeps the composition unified yet unexpected.

In 1833, a column stood where the pyramid now stands. A third axis tilts slightly as it extends from this point on to the east. This third axis extended to the Place de la Bastillewhere a similar column was constructed in 1835 to commemorate the revolution against King Charles X.

The July column at the Place de la Bastille replaced the Elephant of the Bastille, which gives insight into the meaning of the Louvre pyramid. The Elephant was a large structure atop a fountain, which people could enter through a staircase and walk around inside, as with today’s Louvre pyramid. It was cast in bronze from the guns captured by Napoleon in his conquests. In Victor Hugo’s Les Miserable, it housed the homeless children of the Revolution. Run-down and despondant, it symbolized the humility and determination of democracy:

“There it stood in its corner, melancholy, sick, crumbling, surrounded by a rotten palisade, soiled continually by drunken coachmen; cracks meandered athwart its belly, a lath projected from its tail, tall grass flourished between its legs; and, as the level of the place had been rising all around it for a space of thirty years, by that slow and continuous movement which insensibly elevates the soil of large towns, it stood in a hollow, and it looked as though the ground were giving way beneath it. It was unclean, despised, repulsive, and superb, ugly in the eyes of the bourgeois, melancholy in the eyes of the thinker.” -Victor Hugo

The Statue of Liberty in New York is a modern descendant from the Elephant. Visitors walk into and climb a stairway up the Statue, much like in the Elephant. The Louvre Pyramid achieves the same kind of procession, and directly links to its axis in the city. It therefore could assume the symbol of the poor and humble class. The poor gain access to the wealth of the world in the museum. History and art liberates the people.

Astrology

By 1850, the column in the courtyard was replaced by two circles. Pei’s early sketches start to resemble these two circles. Yet while the inverted pyramid keep a circular outline, the large pyramid is decidedly rectangular. Pei took a square and fit another square inside it. How did Pei get this geometric form? Astronomer Tycho Brahe built the Uraniborg observatory based on the classic chart of the four terrestrial elements. He applied the four states of the four elements (earth, fire, water, air) to the celestial sphere for the first time, asserting a new idea that stars are subject to change like anything else.

Tycho’s assistant, Johann Kepler applied this building form to astrology. His rectangular horoscope used tilted concentric squares that look very similar to Pei’s form at the Loure. If you lay the classic zodiac over the louvre pyramid, you can see how it fits.

Did Pei look at Kepler’s horoscope for the pyramid entrance to the Louvre? Compare the plan-view of the Louvre entrance with Kepler’s zodiac and the ancient astrology diagram:

A 90 degree triangle approaches the pyramid from the left side. This T-square aspect pattern forms a trine, which is considered in astrology to be “a source of artistic and creative talent.” This is therefore an appropriate entrance to an art museum. The Louvre’s entrance forms a trine. The 120 degree trine in the musical scale indicates a perfect fifth step, which is the strongest relationship of notes in music. The sun moves almost exactly 120 degrees on the summer solstice in Paris.

Kepler fit platonic solids inside each other. The tetrahedron was surrounded by the cube. More complex platonic shapes fit inside the tetrahedron, until finally they formed a sphere. This could be the background for Pei’s pyramid inside the Kepler square. The inverse pyramid fits inside a circle and the large pyramid inside a square.

Pei said he used a pyramid because it was “the most structurally stable of forms.”1 The pyramid is glass so that it is only barely seen, an intellectual suggestion.

The large pyramid touches a line between the top of the historic palace and the inverse pyramid. Looking at it in plan view, the edge of the large pyramid touches lines between the ends of the palace and the center of the inverse pyramid. These lines of sight suggest calculus that is used to derive perfect solids. They are an intellectual manifestation of perfect forms.

The pyramid and square could be based on Keppler’s laws of planetary motion. Kepler described the harmony of planets, music, poetry, etc. with proportions. Kepler’s third law, that the period of a planet’s orbit squared is proportional to the distance of the orbit cubed, describes the harmony of motion and distance. The pyramid volume is proportional to a line squared, and the cube volume is proportional to a line cubed.

The inverse pyramid’s proportion to its outer circle is the same as the earth’s proportion to the moon (27%). The large pyramid is likewise exactly 27% the width of the courtyard. The front entrance is half that distance from the front of the courtyard. Both pyramids thus relate the size of the moon to the size of the sun.

Kepler applied the mathematics of the perfect platonic solids to the epicycles of planets. Rejecting Ptolemic astronomy, Kepler declared that the earth revolves around the sun, and that the moon revolves around the earth, in elliptical orbits. He related these proportions to various things, such as the structure of the human eye. Indeed, if you overlay Kepler’s drawing of the eyeball over the Louvre, you see that the proportions line up. The Arc de Triumph aligns with the front of the cornea, the inverse pyramid with the lens, and the large pyramid with the front of the optic nerve. The hedges in the park even look like light rays approaching the eye from the left. This is because the harmonic proportions of the Louvre universally describe naturally occurring systems.

Golden Mean

The pyramid proportionally relates a system of objects, so it is no surprise that the golden mean is a basis for the pyramid’s size. The golden mean determines form and distance. The golden mean determines the pyramid’s size between the front and back, and the left and right of the courtyard. The statue of King Louis XIV, which is the endpoint of the park axis, aligns with this proportion. The golden mean also relates the inverse pyramid to the fountain edge.

The Louvre pyramid has the same slope as the Great Pyramid in Giza, at 51 degrees. The significance of the golden proportion in the Great Pyramid thus applies to the Louvre. It uses the golden proportion to achieve its form. The procession into the front, descending down into underground also follows the Great Pyramid in Giza.

The summer solstice sun crosses just inside the Arc de Triumph along the Axe Historique as it sets. The sun therefore is of vital importance in this site axis. The setting summer sun establishes a line of site between the statue of King Louis XIV with the inverse pyramid:

Gender

The circle is traditionally female and the square male. The inverse pyramid thus appears female while the larger upright pyramid is male. Many are aware that the Louvre is a metaphor for the chalice and blade. The chalice is the female aspect of creating life and is represented by an inverse pyramid. The blade is the male aspect of death and is represented by an upright pyramid. This metaphor is strengthened when you consider that the inverse pyramid is surrounding by living grass and the upright pyramid by fluid water. The Egyptians believed the waters of chaos must be crossed in the afterlife, and this is why they placed their funeral upright pyramids near the river Nile. Male/female relate to life/death and circle/square.

The entrance procession continues this gender language of circles and squares. The left spiral staircaseswirls in a circular motion, and on the right side a linear staircase descends in strict right angles. The Louvre’s free-standing staircase is a structural marvel, and its unrestrained circular motion was not easily achieved.

I think this gender symbolism is the most significant thing about the Louvre pyramid. Modernism seems intent on destroying all gender in our architectural language, yet here is a stark example of Modernism pushing ancient gender language. Its subtle power is the stuff of mystery novels, yet it is not really understood.

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Life and death are investigated as the pyramid plays with the idea of above-ground and underground. The water fountains reflect the blue sky on the ground and suggests an inverse relationship. The clear pyramid allows light to fill the subterranean space. Then, at the inverse pyramid, everything flips upside down. The blue fountains take the form of blue sky and the transparent pyramid fills into the building. Rather than the building against a sky, it is the sky against the building. It touches a solid form, a small pyramid, a polar opposite to the unsubstantial sky. The roof of the Louvre palace can barely be seen from the inverse pyramid, a visual connection that brings this dichotomy all together.

This forces the visitor to investigate nature’s opposites. From Keppler’s investigation of natural systems, to perfect proportions, and natural opposite relationships, the Louvre makes the museum visitor investigate natural law.

Massimiliano Fuksas borrowed Pei’s concept of glazed sky intruding into building space. His MyZeil mall in Frankfurt swirls glazing around the public space.

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