Winter Solstice at Karnak Temple ❄️☀️

▫️Winter Solstice, which usually falls on December 21st, is marked by unique solar alignments, particularly at Karnak Temple, where the sunrise aligns with the temple’s axis, illuminating the shrine to Amun-Ra, who embodied the sun in its daily journey across the sky, representing life, sustenance, and the cycle of day and night.

Amun Ra’s primary cult centre was at Thebes, where the Karnak Temple complex was dedicated to him. It is not certified, but not inconceivable, that the illuminating of the shrine to Amun-Ra was linked to the myth of Ra’s journey through the Underworld at night, symbolizing death and rebirth. This could parallel the idea of the sun’s “rebirth” after the Solstice.

All evidence suggests to us that the Egyptians had a deep understanding of celestial movements, and such understanding is reflected within their mythos, folklore, and even their architectural designs and temple structures. With the alignment of the sun being used almost as a divine measuring tool, dictating the locations and construction of temples, Egyptians developed sanctuaries that align directly with the sun’s movement during the Solstices and Equinoxes to this very day.

First Intermediate Period of Egypt: Era of Transformation

This rise of the priesthood, coupled with other factors such as the lack of a successor for the long-lived Pepi II and a severe drought, brought about the collapse of the political structure of the Old Kingdom and moved Egypt into the First Intermediate Period, but this should not be seen as a 'dark age' or an era of chaos. It was a period of change for Egypt, and when that change was assimilated into the culture, the country emerged into the era of the Middle Kingdom and went on. The lack of reliable records, especially for the 7th and 8th Dynasties, contributes to the reputation of the era as a 'dark age,' as does the quality of the art and architecture produced. The great monuments of the Old Kingdom of Egypt on the scale of the pyramids at Giza were no longer built in the First Intermediate Period because there was no powerful central ruler to commission and pay for them and no bureaucracy to organize the sizeable labor force.

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2. predict everyone’s deaths. accurately.

3. summon the dead, interact with them AND possess them to sing and make involuntary movements

4. read their deepest desires and create musical numbers about them… i guess

5. bring someone back to life!?!?!?!?!?!!