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	Dendera Zodiac

holosapiens

6-25-2007 4:58 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/64d8aae0-0c48-4704-a91d-c636dcf08162/1012A8BD-8778-40C8-BABE-CD6A8258676B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/dendera.htm" href="http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/dendera.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.touregypt.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/dendera.htm"><P class="hypergur11">Dendera and the Temple of Hathor</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/dendera.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.touregypt.net/img/6CA10854-6589-49F4-A79A-A71A5056264C" alt="A look at the overall Dendera complex" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/dendera.htm"><P> <IMG width="375" height="382" border="0" align="right" alt="The well known zodiac" src="http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/dendera23.jpg" />A 
corresponding suite on the eastern side of the roof depicts the lunar festival 
of Khoiakh in which an 'Osiris bed' was filled with earth and grain seed as part 
of an important fertility rite. The walls of the first room show scenes of the 
burial goods of <A href="http://www.touregypt.net/godsofegypt/osiris.htm">Osiris</A>, 
including his <A href="http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/canopic.htm">
canopic jars</A> and on the ceiling
<A href="http://www.touregypt.net/godsofegypt/nut.htm">Nut</A> is shown with 
other astronomical figures. On the other half of the ceiling is a plaster copy 
of the famous 'Dendera <A href="http://www.touregypt.net/astro/index.html">
Zodiac</A>', representing the cospic aspect of the Osiris mysteries. The 
original is now in the Louvre in Paris. The inner room depicts scenes from the
<A href="http://www.touregypt.net/Osiriscu.htm">Osiris myth</A>, similar to that 
of the western suite as well as reliefs of cosmic importance.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1012A8BD-8778-40C8-BABE-CD6A8258676B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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