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The ceiling of the Hypostyle Hall at Dendera Temple is enriched with an incredible amount of figurative detail carved in low relief and painted in subtle shades against a blue background. The subjects include numerous deities and hybrid figures (some familiar, others much less so) and even astrological elements, such as recognisable figures from the zodiac.
Over the centuries the ceiling had become so darkened by dirt and soot to become heavily obscured and hard to read, and this is how I saw it for the first time in the 1990s, when many visitors probably missed it altogether. Now it has been fully cleaned and restored it shines again not only as one of the glories of the temple but one of the most remarkable surviving decorative schemes of ancient Egypt. The contrast with its previous blackened, unrestored condition is dramatic, giving an entirely different impression from our previous visit.
The Temple of Hathor at Dendera is one of Egypt's best preserved and most beautiful ancient shrines. This magnificent edifice dates to the Ptolemaic period, late in Egyptian history, though the site long had been the cult centre for the goddess Hathor for centuries before (the earliest extant remains date to c360BC but a temple is recorded here as far back as c2250BC). Most of the main building dates to the reigns of the last Cleopatras and further decoration and building work within the complex continued in the Roman period up to the reign of Trajan.
The dominant structure in the complex is the Temple of Hathor, an enormous structure with a rectangular facade punctuated by the Hathor-headed columns of the hypostyle hall within. This hall is an architectural wonder, a masterpiece of ancient Egyptian design and decoration, which covers every surface and has been recently cleaned, revealing a superb astrological ceiling in all its original vibrant colours.
Sadly there was much iconoclasm here during the early Christian period and most of the reliefs of the walls and pillars have been defaced. Worse still is the damage to the 24 Hathor-head capitals: not one of the nearly a hundred huge faces of the goddess that once smiled down on this hall has been left unblemished, most with their features cruelly chiselled away.
The main temple building is otherwise structurally intact, and extends into further halls and chapels beyond, again with much relief decoration (much of which is again defaced). In one corner is an entrance to a crypt below, an unusual feature in Egyptian temple architecture consisting of several narrow passages adorned with carved relief decoration in good condition.
There are further sanctuaries and chapels above on the roof of the temple, accessed by a decorated staircase and including the room where the famous Dendera Zodiac was formerly located (today its place in the ceiling taken by a cast of the original, now displayed in Paris). The highest part of the roof complex is no longer accessible to tourists, but I can still recall making the ascent there on our first visit in 1992.
Several other buildings surround the main temple, the most impressive of which is the mammisi or 'birth-house'. This consists of a large rectangluar hall surrounded by a colonnade near the entrance to the site and has some well preserved relief decoration on its exterior. Most of this structure dates to the Roman period, but the ruins of its predecessor built under Nectanebo II (Egypt's last native pharoah) stand nearby.
Dendera temple is one of the most rewarding in Egypt and shouldn't be missed. It is one of the most complete and evocative ancient monuments in the country and its recent restoration has revealed a surprisingly extensive amount of colour surviving within (we were amazed by the dramatic contrast with the soot-blackened ceiling we'd beheld on our previous visit in the 1990s). Despite its relative youth (in Egyptian terms at least!) it is easily one of my favourite sites in Egypt.
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Author, Jessica Murray a San Francisco based astrologist, advises the mature reader to embrace the dark obsessive side of Pluto's influence, in order to transcend it and transform it. The actual point of her self-published book Soul-Sick Nation: An Astrologer's View of America, is to invite readers to help transform the subconscious dark side of America's obsession with power in order to save this materialistic, over-militarized and self centered nation from destroying the planet. This obsession is due to the placement of Pluto in the 2nd house in the birth chart of the U.S. of A. which is derived from its birth of July 4th 1776 in Philadelphia. This can be done for nations just as for people.
Her analysis of the political landscape of this country was so right on that I fully accepted her advice and found her astrological analysis of recent U.S. history fascinating. I got the book in part because her website promised she would reveal her astrological analysis of the fate of the Twin Towers on 9/11 and she doesn't disappoint, allowing for a different perspective that transcends, but does not negate the conspiracy theories surrounding the event.
I discovered Jessica on Daniel Pinchbeck's site Reality Sandwich where they post her essays regularly. The book was written in 2006, but it is absolutely fitting for this portentous year of 2012.
This book was my introduction to astrology beyond the usual sun sign, newspaper horoscope stuff. She gives an easy to understand introduction to astrology in the appendix. The references to planets and astrological analysis in the body of the book is a little difficult to follow at first, but in the end it added a perspective that blew my mind open and made me want to know more about this elegant system. Her insights combine psychological analysis with astrological influences which she explains is the way astrology has developed away from just handing out predictions. Predictions are for those who have not grasped their own power to transcend the influences of their reigning planets and change their lives. They live as though controlled by their stars and are thus predictable. But, in these times, we as individuals have become more conscious of our strengths and weaknesses and work towards overcoming them, especially here in the US and especially in California, I might add. She also points out that all of us who live here are karmically tied up with the struggles of the nation with power and money as well. In particular with money; how it is such a taboo to discuss money and our struggle to come to terms with debt and using money wisely.
She encourages the reader to look up their own chart, which I did and found the analysis of my birth chart to be uncannily accurate. In the appendix of her book she has a slightly different analysis of the placement of Pluto and Saturn in each house that I found more accurate than the website above. The revelations that hit me served to focus my approach to the transformative nature of this year of 2012 and tied together disparate elements of my recent blog essay Happy Paradigm Shift which was equally influenced by the previous book I read The Wealth of Nature.
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It's in Prague and just absolutely beautiful every hour it does something but we didn't make it to the clock in time so I didn't get to see it do its thing.
Here are some recent (today) pictures of the Heart Center Astrological Library in Big Rapids. I posted a shot before, but these are better photos. The library has been in existence some twenty years or so and all of the books and periodicals have been indexed in a computer. We are in discussion with the Library of Congress and the University of Illinois to one day make this library part of their permanent collection.
There are two levels to the library. This photo is of the north wall on your left, looking toward the east wall. Above this level is another level of shelves. You can perhaps see a bit of that level at the top left.
At Amma Mandapam at Tiruchirapalli (Trichy) in Tamil Nadu, a mixture of nine kinds of edible seeds (navadanya) on two betel leaves will be burnt as an offering to the nine planets (navagraha). This ritual, called navagraha shanti homam, is believed to mitigate a poor horoscope caused by the unfavourable alignment of the planets at the time of one's birth. The betel leaves represent Shiva and Shakti, the cosmic duality, while each kind of seed represents a planet. Here you can see barley (for the Sun), millet (the Moon), red cowpeas (Mars), mung beans or green gram (Mercury), chickpeas (Jupiter), butter, lima or hyacinth beans (Venus), sesame seeds (Saturn), black gram (Rahu, a Vedic planet) and horse gram (Ketu, another Vedic planet).
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