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Originally posted by Timing
reply to post by Phage
What I find interesting, with the better pictures you linked too, is how two of the pillars or stands, have some sort of disk or ball between them and are resting on some kind of plate or something.
Maybe it could be a reference to the Baghdad Battery.
Originally posted by Angrybadger
Hello all, I was watching ancient aliens on youtube recently and I spotted this image.I hop it shows up,I dont know how to embed.
It was talking about the dendera "light bulb" images. and while I dont subscribe to that idea,I did see an unusual image
Anyway I dont buy in to the ancient aliens theory really but am fascinated by puma punku and other ancient structures. So my question is this...If you can see the images,what do these four figures represent,?
It looks like theres some sort of device hooked up to their heads to suck out their wisdom or thoughts, i have never seen figures like these in egyptian art.I understand they use different figures to represent gods and whatnot,but these guys look strange ,look at their little ears...lol./
they also all seem to be slightly different and ...they are in frontal profile,Most other figures are depicted sideways.these guys are looking right out at us,
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SISTRUM
The bronze sacred rattle ‘sesheshet’ in Egyptian – popular into the Roman world – which was shaken in honour of Hathor, consisted of a column-handle with coweared Hathor at the top surmounted by a loop, across the width of which stretched three or four horizontal bars piercing small disks that would jangle. There was also the ceremonial sistrum made of glazed composition terminating in a naos or shrine, which was meant to be a votive offering to the goddess.
Originally posted by srsen
- Dendera is where Hathor's temple. precinct is.
- Hathor is often depicted as 'The Seven Hathors' - seven different cows which determine the destiny of a new born child. Thing is, they are often depicted in FOURS, not sevens, as:
i Lady of the House of Jubilation
ii - iii Mistresses of the west
iv - v Mistresses of the east
vi - vii Ladies of the sacred land
So now im confident this image is depicting the Four Hathors 'sending' the child's destiny to the basket most likely contaning the child. The cords could be symbolic umbilical cords connectng the child to Hathor while it 'recieves' its destiny.
ANOTHER EDIT: The sun disk being cradled by the two Hathor heads on the right could be symbolic of the fact that the sun rises in the East, which would be the right hand side of the image.
Nailed it?edit on 23-8-2011 by srsen because: (no reason given)
The sound of the sistrum is metallic, produced by a number of metal disks or squares, strung onto a set of transverse bars, set horizontally into a frame of varying design. Its sound was thought to echo that of a stem of papyrus being shaken. However, the acoustic effects were frequently extremely limited. The sistrum was suitable for beating a rhythmical accompaniment in open-air processions. Apuleius, the Roman philosopher, described a procession in honor of Isis, in The Golden Ass, where the rhythmic pattern was three beats followed by a pause on the fourth. The sound of the instrument seems to have been regarded as protective and also symbolic of divine blessing and the concept of rebirth. In addition to the symbolic significance of its sound, the shape and decoration of the sistrum relate it to the divine.
Originally posted by Julie Washington
Then we have this image:
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We see in this image that there is a figure of a person inside this sistrum? The below link to the source of these images has full descriptions of various types of sistrums. However, for the particular image in question I find none of the descriptions satisfy my curiosity and doubt. Maybe someone has better answers for me.
Tour Egypt
Originally posted by Julie Washington
We see in this image that there is a figure of a person inside this sistrum? The below link to the source of these images has full descriptions of various types of sistrums. However, for the particular image in question I find none of the descriptions satisfy my curiosity and doubt. Maybe someone has better answers for me.
Tour Egypt