The ivory headrest of King Tutankhamun
What does the artist mean here?
Is it really king Tutankhamun?
What does the concept of beauty mean for the ancient Egyptians?!
Famous Colombian writer Garcia Marquez says:
The picture is a beautiful story with thousands of words…
The ancient Egyptian civilization is the source of images and art, and the secret of existence was in ancient Egypt.
If you are searching for the truth, the secrets of existence, the universe, and the great Creator, you only have to sail your boat in the world of ancient Egypt that is full of secrets.
Please see. With me deeply to that picture.
Wonderful scenery.
King Tutankhamun sits on his knees in a state of reverence and prayer and carries with his arms an ivory headrest over his head and on his right is a crouching lion, and on his left, a lion crouching …
This superficial explanation may appear to everyone at first sight, but it is not a deep explanation …
Please look deeply at me and find deep imagination and philosophy from the picture …
How beautiful the ancient Egyptian artist …
The ancient Egyptian believed in the theory of creation that existence was a water ocean that emerged from the Great God and decided to create the universe as we see it now … in the form of cosmic beings, the attributes and abilities of the God who are embodied in the heavens, the earth, animals, man and the whole universe …
The ancient Egyptian also believed that heaven and earth were before the Creator separated the sky from the earth. From here, ancient Egyptian art was not an expression of beauty only, but an expression of the story of creation as imagined by the ancient Egyptian …
Deep symbolism…
King Tutankhamun here is embodied in the form (Shu), meaning space and air on which the sky is based, as mentioned by ancient Egyptian mythology.
He raises with his arms the celestial horizon from which the sun is revealed, the source of life for all creatures.
In this beautiful landscape, light and light are evident between the eastern and western horizons …
Look with me to the lion crouching in the east is the birth of a new day.
As for the lion crouching in the west, it was yesterday, and between yesterday and today, a new day emerges from the horizon …
Indeed, we are facing the genius ideas of ancient Egyptian philosophy, through which the ancient Egyptian realized the creator and the mystery of existence’s secrets.
Notes
The picture from the collection is of King Tutankhamun, the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.