The offerings in Ancient Egypt “Hetep.”
In the ancient Egyptian language, The offerings in Ancient Egypt pronounced “Hetep,” and it is a word that contains many meanings.
In addition to offerings, “Hetep” means “contentment, peace, tranquility, harmony, balance.”
The concept of offerings in ancient Egypt was wider than just food. The offering tables contained lotus flowers, papyrus sticks, loaves of bread, birds, and bull thighs.
The thigh of the bull in ancient Egypt was a symbol of the group of stars of the Big Dipper. The tool used in the ritual of opening the mouth was always in the form of a bull’s thigh to symbolize that star group, which is one of the most important stations the soul passes through on its journey to the other world.
In this scene, we see an offering table carrying bread, fruit, birds, lotus flowers, and a bundle of papyrus sticks.
In addition to rows of strangely shaped fingers, which archaeologists describe as “bread.”
But when you check the picture, you notice that those fingers are arranged closer to the shape of feathers, not bread.
We are in front of 20 blades arranged extremely harmoniously and balanced.
We note that the artist divided the quills into two rows, each consisting of 10, whose bristles are directed opposite to the corresponding ten quills.
And the number ten in Pythagorean numerology represents perfection. Pythagoras used to say that the number ten is the complete number. This number was associated with the ancient Egyptians with “Horus” (Horus) and the concept of perfection.
Hassi-Ra, the famous physician in the era of King Djoser (the third dynasty, an ancient state), bore the title of the priest of Horus and also the title of “the chief of the ten” because the number ten is associated with “Horus.”
Horus was the tenth member to complete the ninth of Heliopolis, the ninth of the universe’s beginning.
The Heliopolis ninth, from which the universe arose, included (Atum, Shu / Tefnut, Geb / Nut, Isis / Osiris, Set / Nephthys).
Horus was not one of the nine fundamental cosmic forces from which the universe arose. But he was the tenth cosmic force that complemented the nine fundamental forces.
He represents the ultimate perfection. And whoever wants to understand the meaning that the artist wanted from depicting two rows of feathers (each row consists of 10 feathers, opposite/balanced) should research the symbol of the feather in the Egyptian civilization.
The feather was associated in ancient Egypt with “Maat.” And “Maat” is the laws of cosmic balance by which creation emerged from the “Nun” sea, the sea of chaos and darkness.
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