
GIFT'S MODEL
If you observe the bas-relief of figure (1) that is on a colonnade wall within the Temple of Denderah as a clear geometric diagram which is the load-bearing structure of the scene. The Ptolemaic Temple is of I - II century B.C. and the sculpture represents a young Pharaoh offering two cups to the Goddess Hathor .
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This diagram, probably, superimposes itself to ordinary canon of proportions that Ancient Egyptians used to represent human figures. The starting element seems to be rectangle (1-2),and a double square of side 2 in a horizontal position . This rectangle has the same proportions of the floor of King's Chamber in Great Pyramid. Now imagine to give a lateral horizontal compression ( c ) on rectangle able to transfer (transmute) in a vertical way an horizontal spaciousness of compression's action as you can see in figure (2) .
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You 'll obtain a new figure that represents the starting point of a succession of operations to do only with "compass and rule".The final effect defines many geometric elements related between them [figure (3)].
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On examination of the above scene, the interesting point in the diagram is also a description of North-South section of Great Pyramid with a big approximation. As you see in figure (3) and (4).
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A first research verified that the model is present in many pictures of "Gift' Scene " as you see in figure ( 6) taken from a wall of Phile's Temple (High Egypt).
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It seems that they choosed a process of transmutation able to realize vertically gold rectangle
(c = 0,618034….) .
This rectangle (as G.T. Fechner's research showed at the end of last century ) is the most pleasant for view.
The gold diagram coincides with great precision (but not exactly) with point in which staff of HATHOR and MAAT passes through the crossing of two important geometric alignments of the model .
We can reasonably think they would represent in geometric way metaphysical concept
of cosmic balance. Then a compression of c = 2/3 realizes a configuration in which Sacred Triangle of Osiride [ 3-4-5 ] appears, figure (7). With this you can find in the diagram the balance configuration and also obtain ,geometrically and arithmetically ,using ratio of entire numbers, a value of P.Greek more precise than the one handed down from Ancient Egyptians in Rhind's papyrus (1650 B.C.) ![]() Geometric sequence of the model, figure ( 8 )
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