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LUXOR:

Symmetry, Tarot, E6, and Sedenions:

The Temple of Luxor was built on the Nile River East bank of the Nile River at least as early as about 3,400 years ago. It has been actively used and remodelled as late as the time of Alexander the Great, but its basic original design was based on the fundamental ideas of the Ogdoad. In the 6th century AD, Byantine Christians built a church on the NorthEast part of the Temple. In the 13th century AD, the Mosque of Abu El-Haggag was built on top of the Byzantine Church. The Mosque is still in active use, and its design (Minaret behind Dome) is strikingly similar to the design of Sacre Coeur in Paris.

The two flat structures in on the North side look somewhat like the combs on top of some Mayan pyramids. There is now only one obelisk at the North entrance, since the other obelisk that used to be on the West side was taken to Paris in 1836.

An overhead view shows the design of the Temple of Luxor, based on the fundamental ideas of the Ogdoad. Such architectural design, like that of the Pyramids at Giza, may be one way of preserving and transmitting old high-level culture to later civilizations.

Other ways of passing on such culture are games and fortunetelling such as the Tarot of the Egyptians and Wei-Qi and I Ching of the Chinese. For instance, both Wei-Qi boards and Egyptian art and architecture design plans use 19-line grids. To see how the architecture of the Temple of Luxor could preserve and transmit high culture, look closely at the plan of the Temple.

In the annual Festival of Opet,

As to the age of construction of the Temples of Luxor and Karnak,

the absence of Sphinx-type weathering on their present-day structures indicates that the present-day structures are more recent than the Sphinx, and that the conventional dates may be correct for their present-day structures. However, the temples may have been rebuilt from time to time in order to revise their astronomical orientation to take into account the precession of the equinoxes. As Lockyer noted (see Secrets of the Great Pyramid, by Peter Tompkins, Galahad 1971, 1978, 1997), the Temple at Dendera may have originally been built to be oriented with respect to gamma Draconis, which ceased to be circumpolar about 7,000 years ago, and then reconstructed to be oriented with respect to Dubhe, which ceased to be circumpolar about 6,000 years ago, and then reconstructed three more times, about 5,230 years ago, about 3,600 years ago, and about 2,100 years ago. Such repeated reconstruction could result in new structures, actually built on conventional dates, but with a "floor plan" inherited from prior structures. In this way, the design of the temples may be based upon ideas and knowledge inherited from a global Early Human Civilization.

The Luxor Temple may also represent a Human Being.

John Anthony West, in his book Serpent in the Sky, describes the views of R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, set out in his book The Temple of Man, that the Luxor Temple is a representation, not only of the abstract structures described above, but also of a human being: The South green-red-purple-gold area being Head, Neck, and Chest; The South blue area being the Arms surrounding the Stomach; The Central red area being the Pelvis, Thighs, and Knees; The North blue-red-purple area being the legs and feet. In such a view, perhaps the structure of the Luxor Temple might encode such things as Acupuncture Points and Chakras, with the South Chamber corresponding to the Third Eye. If so, the Pyramids of Giza might represent the Heavens, the Temple of Luxor might represent Man, and both might encode abstract ideas from old high culture. REFERENCES (including sources of scanned images): Egypt, Splendors of an Ancient Civilization, by Alberto Siliotti, Thames and Hudson 1994. Serpent in the Sky, by John Anthony West, Quest 1993. The Sign and the Seal, by Graham Hancock, Simon & Schuster 1992. Secrets of the Great Pyramid, by Peter Tompkins, Galahad 1971, 1978, 1997.

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