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Hypostyle Hall, Luxor
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The Great Hypostile Hall of Karnak - Luxor, EGYPT
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nickysfacts · 3 months
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The Temple of Karnak, truly a Wonder of the World!𓉹
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pathofregeneration · 2 years
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Meditation Before the Temple, part I
“The image one has of the temple is usually that of a house constructed by man. Beneath the immense sky, a very small building indeed.
But for man confronting himself, for Ego, the site of his presence is the centre of his world. Yet there is what man looks at, and there is what is looked at in him. What he sees outside of himself is partial; what sees within him is all. What man puts of himself into his work is everything for him; the work in itself is of small account.
Man has searched within himself for his raison d’être, for the cause of his being, and, on his scale, he has surmised an order for the becoming of all things. To his measure. Unable to find an initial, tangible, and definable cause, he calls it God. This having come out of himself, made in his own image, he builds a house for his God. For it is so difficult to pray beneath the starry sky!
This house is always the symbol of the man who has constructed it. It is the house of a god. It is not the temple, as the temple is not in the image of the man who built it but in the image of cosmic man within terrestrial man. The latter image is what the temple explains.
To work creatively means to concretise, to make palpable sensorially what spirit conceives. This is birth, and therefore shall be death as well.”
— R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, The Egyptian Miracle
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The Great Hypostyle Hall of Karnak (1908) Illustration from Penrose’s Pictorial Annual An Illustrated Review of the Graphic Arts, vol. 14
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ap-art-history · 11 months
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Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall
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Karnak, Egypt
New Kingdom Egypt (Ancient Near East)
1550 BCE (temple) 1250 BCE (hall)
Cut sandstone and mud brick
Form: Combining the land from all components of this site, it spans more than 200 acres. The sacred area enclosed to honor Amun is 61 acres all by itself, and the hypostyle hall is 54,000 square feet (making it the largest singular room of any religious building in the world to this day) and is filled with 134 columns. The inside of the temple was originally brightly painted
Content: Inside of the temple, the main path through the center slowly raises the deeper inside the building it gets. The columns inside the hall have shallow reliefs carved into them and depict creation stories, as well as symbols of paradise (lotus, palm plants, papyrus). The roof/ceiling would have been decorated with images of stars, the sky, and birds.
Context: In ancient Egypt, it was believed that at the end of agricultural season, the gods and earth were left exhausted. Because of this, it was necessary to help replenish their energy by participating in the Opet festival. The Opet festival lasted for 27 days, starting at the Temple of Amun-Re and the Hypostyle Hall, and ending 1 and a half miles south. This celebration also strengthened the link between a pharaoh and Amun. Accessibility to the deeper parts of the temple became more and more restrictive with each pylon (see image 2), as a means to show the higher social class was closer to god. However, the deepest part of the temple was restricted to priests and the pharaoh exclusively. The temple and hall were a pilgrimage site for over 2,000 years.
Function: While the religious ritual practices at this site serve as its main function, the temples also represented the creation of the world as the Egyptians believed it. It was believed that the world was originally only water, and that the first solid land to emerge from the water was a pyramid-like mound, also known as a benben. The structure of the temples were shaped in this way as well, so when the Nile flooded, it would seem even more like the original mound of creation.
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sheltiechicago · 1 year
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Heavyweights: Menorca’s pioneers carved out a life using the blocks of limestone that were abundant during the Ice Age on the Spanish island. Those towers, one of 1,000 talayots constructed, are now a candidate for UNESCO’s World Heritage List, a recognition of cultural treasures. The hypostyle hall above (a roof supported by columns) at the Torre d’en Galmés site was attached to a circular home and probably used to store food or keep livestock.
PHOTOGRAPH BY MARCO ANSALONI
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etes-voushumaine · 2 years
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Karnak Temple
After 3 days in Cairo, Leah and I were on the move! We boarded a chartered prop jet with our fellow river cruisers and flew to Luxor, to greet the Viking Ra--currently tied up alongside the Nile's east bank. Ra was to be our floating hotel...
After 3 days in Cairo, Leah and I were on the move! We boarded a chartered prop jet with our fellow river cruisers and flew to Luxor, to greet the Viking Ra–currently tied up alongside the Nile’s east bank. Ra was to be our floating hotel through the following week. After attending an obligatory safety briefing aboard Ra, we were soon exploring Luxor and it’s ancient counterpart, Thebes–home…
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suetravelblog · 1 year
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The Temple of Dendera Egypt
Pondering the Ceiling at Dendera Temple Yesterday I visited Dendera – the Temple of Hathor, a one-hour drive from Luxor. Dendera lies along the Nile River near the small Egyptian town of Dendera. The temple was “inhabited in prehistory as an oasis on the west bank of the Nile, south of Qena”. The complex was less crowded than the tours I’ve taken in Luxor. Aerial View Dendera Temple – Viator It’s…
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MWW Artwork of the Day (9/8/22) David Roberts (Scottish, 1796–1864) The Hypostyle Hall of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel, Egypt (1849) Oil on panel, 6.8 x 54.6 cm. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven CT (Paul Mellon Collection)
Roberts was the first professional artist to visit the Near East without a patron or a connection to a military expedition or missionary group. He sailed to Alexandria in 1838 and for eleven months traveled up the Nile River, across deserts and mountains, through Egypt and the Holy Land, to arrive in Jerusalem on Easter 1839. He continued north to Lebanon and departed from Beirut in May. Roberts recorded his impressions of landscapes, temples, ruins, and people in three sketchbooks and more than 272 watercolors. These sketches and paintings provided the basis for the 247 lithographs published with text between 1842 and 1849 as the three-volume "Holy Land."  His sensitive handling of the lithographer's tools imparts a range of tonality and color as well as a sense of the delicacy and spontaneous quality of Roberts's original images. Roberts's plates are among the most popular images of famous sites in the Near East..
For more of this artist's work, see this MWW gallery/album: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2373166989455323&type=3
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Hypostyle hall of the Temple of Hathor at Dendera
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Anne Poirier and Patrick Poirier, Willa Adriana, Temple of 100 Columns, 1980
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joeinct · 7 months
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The Sweeper, Great Hypostyle Hall, Karnak, Egypt, Photo by Carolyn Brown, 1989
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The ceiling of the 2000 years old hypostyle hall of the temple of Hathor in Dendera, Egypt
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egypt-museum · 5 months
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Columns of the Hypostyle Hall, Temple of Ramesses III, Medinet Habu.
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