Last week I presented a poster at a conference in Tucson AZ showing a detail of the two Nut ceiling reliefs of the Dendera Hathor Temple. A focused stream with the sun at one end and a Hathor head flooded by the stream was depicted by the ancient contractor. I think the classic interpretation would be sun rays, though I couldn’t find any written interpretation about this in classic literature except for “Nut giving birth to the Sun.”.
As the stream is drawn composed of triangles pointing towards the sun in my interpretation, I connect it with an ancient drawing of the Kreutz Cometary Stream, which is known in its high frequency of one comet every 2 days, only since 1996. Previously it was only known as “normal” comet family, with about 2 visible comets every century and maybe telescope-visible every few months.
What’s your thought about the drawing interpretation?
Can anyone point me to classic interpretations in literature?
Other interesting details of the long rectangular Zodiac, one of the two Nut reliefs:
Poster as PDF for download: [www.researchgate.net]
More photos of the square relief: [commons.wikimedia.org]
More photos of the rectangular Zodiac: [paulsmit.smugmug.com]
Please note the image copyrights.
As the stream is drawn composed of triangles pointing towards the sun in my interpretation, I connect it with an ancient drawing of the Kreutz Cometary Stream, which is known in its high frequency of one comet every 2 days, only since 1996. Previously it was only known as “normal” comet family, with about 2 visible comets every century and maybe telescope-visible every few months.
What’s your thought about the drawing interpretation?
Can anyone point me to classic interpretations in literature?
Other interesting details of the long rectangular Zodiac, one of the two Nut reliefs:
- [*] between the 3 outer planets barque, a flower chalice with a snake inside is drawn, looks like a comet
[*] the crab is hiding behind the stream / sun, that detail is discussed in literature and defines the time during the year when the sun transits the constellation of Cancer (shortly before the Sirius heliacal rising)
[*] the square Nut relief (in the Wabet, Purification Chapel, the room reachable over the few stairs behind the sky-open antechamber) shows two mysterious tree-like objects rising from the ground. They remind me of plasma discharges.
Poster as PDF for download: [www.researchgate.net]
More photos of the square relief: [commons.wikimedia.org]
More photos of the rectangular Zodiac: [paulsmit.smugmug.com]
Please note the image copyrights.
