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                         The Atlantean Symbolism Of The Egyptian Temple (part II)   
 


   


I have seen the wicked man rising like a mighty cedar tree. Yet, he passed away, and could be found no more.

Psalm 37:35





Introduction





In the present section — the second part of our work on the symbolism of the Egyptian temple
— we study two fundamental aspects of that symbolism which, to our knowledge, have never
been pointed out before:

The Egyptian temples are stylized replicas of Atlantis, with its mountains, its pillars and its crypts represented explicitly.
The Egyptian temples derive their architecture and conception from that of the Hindu temples
of India and Indonesia, particularly those built in the so-called South Indian (or Dravidian) style.
We begin by discussing the features of the Egyptian temples and their Atlantean symbolism, and
then pass on to their Hindu archetypes. Finally, we discuss the Atlantean (Indonesian) origin of
the Egyptians themselves and of the language they spoke, showing how they kept abreast of
the Hindu conceptions by means of periodic visits to the Land of the Gods (Punt or Indonesia).
Let us start by reviewing the conception and symbolism of the temples everywhere.

The word "temple" derives from the Latin templum, itself derived from a radix tem- meaning "open court", as in the Greek temenos. We are used to temples built as closed edifices, such as Christian cathedrals, Arab mosques and Jewish synagogues. However, in the early temples everywhere, the place of worship consisted of an open court, at whose center stood the inner sanctum (or holy of holies), which was indeed closed.

The worshippers were admitted to the temenos or open court, but their entrance in the inner
sanctum was forbidden. There, an image of the god was kept and catered to by the priests who,
alone of all people, were admitted there. The Hindus call this inner sanctum by the Sanskrit name
of garbhagriha meaning "womb abode" (or "inner room"). In the inner sanctum the dead god "slept" quietly with his entourage, awaiting the instant to resurrect and come out in triumph, announcing
the return of the Golden Age.

This resurrection of the dead god (Osiris in Egypt, Shiva or Vishnu in India, Tammuz in Babylon,
etc.) was periodically enacted by the priests, who brought out the image of the god for the
ritual. The image was processioned in triumph (often by boat), usually meeting with its lover.
After a few days of festivities, the god (or goddess) was again returned to the inner sanctum
until it was time for a new resurgence.

The adytum (or inner sanctum) often took the shape of the Holy Mountain under which the
dead god and his court were buried. In Zozer's complex, built by Imhotep, and possibly the very
first such structure to be built in Egypt, the garbhagriha took the shape of the famous stepped
pyramid that survives even today to the delight of tourists and specialists both. In Babylon, the
temple court surrounded the ziggurat, itself a kind of stepped pyramid not too far distinct from
Zozer's stepped pyramid or, for that matter, from the similar structures found in Indonesia and
even in the Americas (Yucatan, etc.).

As a matter of fact, as we show elsewhere, Zozer's complex is a verbatim copy of pyramidal
complexes of Angkor and Java. It is likely that Imhotep, a most mysterious figure, was fetched
from there, along with a gang of expert masons, in order to teach the Egyptians the arts of
stone-masonry and city-building, among others.1