The sun perpendicularly to the Holy of Holies at the Karnak Temple is not an exception. The ancient Egyptian presented a human civilization whose secrets still arouse the passion of the whole world. The pharaohs gave the world great progress in the arts and sciences, and perhaps the astronomical phenomenon that occurred today, with the sun perpendicular to the holiest of the Temple of Karnak, Clear evidence of the progress of the ancient Egyptians astronomically.
And the rays of the sun crossed this morning, on the holiest of the sanctities of the Karnak Temple, in a phenomenon that occurs annually, at dawn on December 21 or December 22, which is one of the most important astronomical events in Egypt and the whole world, and the question is still confusing to many scholars and archaeologists, regarding the subject of the sun crossing in 14 Egyptian temples and monuments? Was the passage of the sun intentional, or was it a coincidence?
According to Dr. Zahi Hawass, in a previous article entitled "The Sun crosses by chance!" If the sun crosses that are observed by people, whether they are archaeologists or just visitors interested in monitoring these phenomena in ancient Egyptian temples, it is not possible in any way to confirm that it was intended by the ancient Egyptians when building this or that temple? And to emphasize that, we do not have the inscriptions and decorations of the temple that indicate from near or far the presence of a specific sun perpendicular to a specific part of the temple! Accordingly, the matter needs more studies by Egyptologists and astronomers .. At the same time, and through my long experience in Egyptian antiquities, it is difficult for me to believe that the ancient Egyptian was leaving something, whether he was old or small, to chance! On the contrary, everything was planned and with great care. The ancient Egyptian excelled in the sciences of astronomy, engineering, art and architecture .. And our duty before we respond in the negative or positive is to study these phenomena and analyze them.
Hawass explained in his aforementioned article that there is no doubt that the direction of the sun was a major factor in determining the directions of the Egyptian temples, whether those temples were related to the sun god or not, and there is no doubt that the ancient Egyptian engineer knew perfectly how to move. Sunlight inside the temple so that every part of the architecture could employ the function it suited.
In another article entitled “The Sun Perpendicular to Science and Imagination,” Dr. Zahi Hawass emphasized that science refers to the ingenuity of the Pharaohs in the sciences of astronomy, mathematics and engineering, and there is no doubt that the perpendicularity of the sun on the face of Ramses II was intended by the architect responsible for the construction of the temple, Especially after Ramesses made himself an idol from among the gods and placed his statue with their statues inside the Holy of Holies. As for Abi Al-Hol, the genius architectural engineer “Ankh Haf”, who was responsible for the hierarchical group of King Khafre, was able to: He was the one who completed the pyramid of King Khufu, and Ankh Haf was able to make the Great Sphinx and make it a representative of the sun that rises and sets on the horizon and is represented here by the pyramids of Khufu and Khafre, and this is confirmed by the custom of the name of the Sphinx in the modern state, "Hor im sister" meaning Horus in the horizon.
While the archaeologist, Tayeb Gharib, director of the Karnak temples, believes that the annual phenomenon of the perpendicularity of the sun proves the greatness of the Egyptian pharaohs, that they are fully aware of the movement of the sun, or more precisely, the apparent movement of the sun around the earth, and they constructed temples facing the sun to record an astronomical phenomenon or an event that records the birth of God or to record astronomical events And the sun on this day will perpendicular to the temples of Karnak and Deir el-Bahari on the face of the god Amun, indicating that the phenomenon usually begins at half past six o'clock waiting for the sunrise around the temple, then the sun’s rays are tracked on the pillars and walls And entering the Holy of Holies to monitor the phenomenon, and the sun usually perpendicularly for twenty minutes, then it heads west to the Temple of Hatshepsut, which is located along the Karnak Temples on the western mainland.
Mon, Dec. 21, 2020
