11/14/2022
The astronomical architecture and the Maat (the cosmic system):
The ancient Egyptian was keen to make an image of the sky on the land of Egypt, so he made the pyramids and temples symmetrical with the stars in the sky. The most famous example of this symmetry is the symmetry of the Giza pyramids with the 3 stars of the belt of the Orion group.
This concern for the harmony of earth and sky goes back to the concept of the Ma'at, as the Ma'at in ancient Egypt is the cosmic order.
Ancient Egypt was created according to the laws of Maat brought by the nitro (holy beings) to the earth at the beginning of the first time, which was known in ancient Egypt as the “Seppeti” or the golden age.
The Pyramids texts date that the creation of the first time was in the city of On (Heliopolis), when the Banu bird (Phoenix) came to it and landed on the Al-Bun Ibn Ibn stone, which was the first part of the earth to appear from the vicinity of the water of Nun (chaos). And Al-Bun Bin Hajar has a clear geometric shape that is a pyramidal shape, while the Nun ocean is described as an ocean of water that has no surface and is chaotic. The old in creating order out of chaos.
And in the Banu Temple (Phoenix), the events of the first time, the Golden Age, began, where order was created from chaos. The ancient Egyptians kept in the Banu Temple in Heliopolis the pyramid-shaped Al-Bun Ibn Al-Maqdis stone. In the period of the First Intermediate Period at the end of the Old Kingdom, King Senusret I erected the Obelisk of Heliopolis (the Obelisk of the Matariya) in the same place as the original Al-Bun Bin stone as a reminder of it.
And from observing the celestial bodies, the ancient Egyptian realized that there is a wise mechanism that regulates the movement of the movement of the celestial bodies, so he wanted to emulate that wise mechanism on earth so that his life on earth would be in perfection, order and harmony.
The celestial bodies and from here came the concern for the harmony of architecture and linking it with astronomy, as well as linking the calendar and the calculations of months and years to astronomical events, and not to earthly events.
In love that modern calendars such as the Gregorian and Hijri calendar make time run in a straight line starting from an earthly event and the counting starts from 1 year to infinity, we find the ancient Egyptian understands time as cycles, which is the deeper concept of time. And whenever the orbits revolve, we revolve with them in their cycle. If a cycle ends and a new cycle begins, the ancient Egyptian would start counting from the first and new ones, saying on the 1st of the month of the 1st of the year 1.
Yes, time goes on cycles, so if a cycle ends, we go back to the starting point of the cycle, but we do not start from scratch, but rather go back to the starting point, bearing the experience of a previous cycle, to start a new cycle of human development.
The ideal of the spheres and their precise mechanisms was the ideal version (patron) on the basis of which the ancient Egyptian architect designs his architecture in order to bring and activate the wise and ideal mechanisms of astronomy on the earth, which is what protects it from falling into chaos!