The Secret of the Flower of Life
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The Osirion Temple From Inside
The Three Osirian Temples in Abydos
This temple is in Abydos It was built by Seti the First and dedicated to Osiris. Behind it is another very old temple called the Osirian Temple, where the wall carving of the Flower of Life was found by Katrina Raphaell.
Seti I changed the plan for the newer temple into an L shape to avoid destroying the more ancient temple. It’s the only L-shaped temple in all of Egypt, which strengthens this idea.
In recent times archaeologists have discovered something very interesting about the wall carvings in Egyptian temples. Tourists usually notice that there appears to be a great deal of vandalism on the walls, where a lot of the hieroglyphs, especially ones of the immortals, had been chipped off and destroyed.
What they might not notice is that the chipping is in a specific horizontal band, from about eye height up to about twelve to fifteen feet. There is no chipping above or below that. I didn’t even notice that when I was there; it just didn’t click. It didn’t click for a lot of Egyptian archaeologists either for hundreds of years, until somebody finally said, “Hey, the destruction is always in this very specific region.” From that realization, they began to understand that there was a difference between the region below the destruction and the one above.
They finally figured out that there are time bands on the walls. The band from about eye height down to floor level would represent the past; the band from eye height up to about fifteen feet or so would represent the present (the time the temple was built); and higher than that (these temples sometimes go up forty feet and more) would tell about what will occur in the future.
The archaeologists then realized that the only people who could have understood this relationship and actually chipped the hieroglyphs was the priesthood of the temple.
The priests were the only ones who would have known that they were chipping out only the present. An ordinary vandal would not have been so precise in selecting only the band representing the present. Besides, the destroyers did not come in with a sledgehammer; they actually chipped certain
things out very carefully. It has taken all these centuries to figure this out.
I know now of at least two proofs that the Egyptians could see into the future. I have a picture of one of these: Way up high on one of the beams in this portion of the first temple at Abydos is something that, if you’ve never seen it before, is hard to believe, but it’s there. I’m going to get a picture of the other one the next time I visit Egypt, because I know exactly where it is.
I think these two pictures are absolute proof, beyond any doubt at all, that they were able to see the future. How they did it I don’t know; that’s up to you to figure out. But the fact is, they did. At the very end I’ll show the picture that proves this.
This is the third temple of the three—a long, open temple. This temple was considered the most sacred spot in all of Egypt by the ancient kings and pharaohs, because they believed that this was
where Osiris had experienced resurrection and become immortal. King Zoser, who built the beautiful
funerary complex at Saqqara with its famous Step Pyramid, supposedly for his burial, did not bury himself there. Instead, he buried himself at this little unpretentious
back temple
.
They don’t allow anyone into this third temple. But I couldn’t stand to just look down into it. There
was nobody around that I could see, so I dropped down over the wall into a courtyard. I managed to get about five minutes of space before the Egyptians began yelling at me to get out. I thought they
were going to arrest me, but they didn’t. The hieroglyphics in there are extraordinary—nothing like you would see anywhere else. The simplicity and perfection of the drawings is remarkable.
This is the second temple of the three, which is lower than the other two. It was buried under the earth before they dug it out. (The ramp, seen at the right edge, was built to allow access from the higher ground level.) I took this picture from the third temple, looking toward the Seti I temple, whose back wall can be seen in the background. The second temple is where the Flower of Life drawings in Katrina’s photo were found.
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The Osirion Temple From Inside
The Three Osirian Temples in Abydos
This temple is in Abydos It was built by Seti the First and dedicated to Osiris. Behind it is another very old temple called the Osirian Temple, where the wall carving of the Flower of Life was found by Katrina Raphaell.
There is still a third temple, also dedicated to Osiris and also called the Osirian Temple.
Evidently, when they were digging back into the mountain to build the Seti I temple, with full knowledge that the third Osirian temple was there, they found the older, second Osirian temple between the two.
Seti I changed the plan for the newer temple into an L shape to avoid destroying the more ancient temple. It’s the only L-shaped temple in all of Egypt, which strengthens this idea.
Some people say that Seti I built the older temple, too. However, the older one is a completely different construction design and has much larger stone blocks. Most Egyptian archaeologists agree that it is a much older temple. It is also lower in elevation than the Seti temple, which gives credence to its age.
When Seti I began construction of his new temple, the second one looked like a hill. The third temple, the long, rectangular one in the back, is also dedicated to Osiris, and it is one of the oldest temples in Egypt.
Seti I was building his temple on this site because the other (third) temple was very old and he wanted to dedicate a new temple to Osiris. We’ll look at the Seti I temple, then the third one, then the second and oldest one.
Carved Bands of Time
In recent times archaeologists have discovered something very interesting about the wall carvings in Egyptian temples. Tourists usually notice that there appears to be a great deal of vandalism on the walls, where a lot of the hieroglyphs, especially ones of the immortals, had been chipped off and destroyed.
What they might not notice is that the chipping is in a specific horizontal band, from about eye height up to about twelve to fifteen feet. There is no chipping above or below that. I didn’t even notice that when I was there; it just didn’t click. It didn’t click for a lot of Egyptian archaeologists either for hundreds of years, until somebody finally said, “Hey, the destruction is always in this very specific region.” From that realization, they began to understand that there was a difference between the region below the destruction and the one above.
They finally figured out that there are time bands on the walls. The band from about eye height down to floor level would represent the past; the band from eye height up to about fifteen feet or so would represent the present (the time the temple was built); and higher than that (these temples sometimes go up forty feet and more) would tell about what will occur in the future.
The archaeologists then realized that the only people who could have understood this relationship and actually chipped the hieroglyphs was the priesthood of the temple.
The priests were the only ones who would have known that they were chipping out only the present. An ordinary vandal would not have been so precise in selecting only the band representing the present. Besides, the destroyers did not come in with a sledgehammer; they actually chipped certain
things out very carefully. It has taken all these centuries to figure this out.
The Seti I Temple
I know now of at least two proofs that the Egyptians could see into the future. I have a picture of one of these: Way up high on one of the beams in this portion of the first temple at Abydos is something that, if you’ve never seen it before, is hard to believe, but it’s there. I’m going to get a picture of the other one the next time I visit Egypt, because I know exactly where it is.
I think these two pictures are absolute proof, beyond any doubt at all, that they were able to see the future. How they did it I don’t know; that’s up to you to figure out. But the fact is, they did. At the very end I’ll show the picture that proves this.
The “Third” Temple
This is the third temple of the three—a long, open temple. This temple was considered the most sacred spot in all of Egypt by the ancient kings and pharaohs, because they believed that this was
where Osiris had experienced resurrection and become immortal. King Zoser, who built the beautiful
funerary complex at Saqqara with its famous Step Pyramid, supposedly for his burial, did not bury himself there. Instead, he buried himself at this little unpretentious
back temple
.
They don’t allow anyone into this third temple. But I couldn’t stand to just look down into it. There
was nobody around that I could see, so I dropped down over the wall into a courtyard. I managed to get about five minutes of space before the Egyptians began yelling at me to get out. I thought they
were going to arrest me, but they didn’t. The hieroglyphics in there are extraordinary—nothing like you would see anywhere else. The simplicity and perfection of the drawings is remarkable.
The “Second” Temple’s Sacred Geometry and Flower of Life
This is the second temple of the three, which is lower than the other two. It was buried under the earth before they dug it out. (The ramp, seen at the right edge, was built to allow access from the higher ground level.) I took this picture from the third temple, looking toward the Seti I temple, whose back wall can be seen in the background. The second temple is where the Flower of Life drawings in Katrina’s photo were found.
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