Here in the Pacific Northwest as we pass through the Winter Solstice and the holidays that accompany it, we all pretty much understand why the bears and other mammals decided that hibernation might be a good idea. The days are short, the weather is cold, skies are often overcast for days on end, barely feeling like it’s daylight before the sun sets too early in the late afternoon, and the long nights settle in around us.
Our bodies are charged by the light of the Sun. Our circadian rhythms are informed by the cycles of light and dark. Our pineal gland, often called the “third eye”, has one function; to sense light from dark and respond by producing melatonin to help us sleep at night, and reduce that production to keep us awake during the day. Sunlight provides a boost in our production of serotonin, which helps regulate moods, and enables brain cells and your nervous system to communicate with each other. Serotonin also helps with sleeping, eating and digestion. The Sun provides us with vitamin D and charges our electrical field. Many ancient cultures celebrated the cycles of the Sun with monuments and spaces that are still awe inspiring. How and why these ancient people built some of these remains to be discovered.
The ancient Egyptians seemed to have a deep understanding of the connection between us and the Sun as evidenced by their writings, rituals, temples, and beliefs. While we often think that our modern ways are so much more advanced, it is clear that there are many things that we can learn from the relics of the past. The ancient Egyptians encoded much of their knowledge of the connection of the Sun into their mythology and the art that came from it. Their traditions and relics point to a civilization that understood things from a wholistic point of view. The “Heavens” and the Earth were inextricably connected and humans were directly related to the gods and goddesses whose stories we are still fascinated with today. It’s amazing what we are still learning from the pieces of the puzzles that we are putting together from the massive amount of information their culture left us to discover.
Originally, I did not set out to write about the Egyptians, but so much of their architecture and culture is oriented toward the stars and the movement of the Sun that it kept coming up. Then, during a Reiki meditation I got a clear vision that led me to look up the connections of the images above. I saw the first and second images in my own minds eye, and as I researched them, I was guided back to this page that a friend had shared with me a few months ago. It is called “Welcome to the Golden Page” and this third photo is from a post where the author breaks down how King Tut’s crown, along with his crook and flail is a match to the shape of the optic nerve of your brain and how it also relates to the Sun's cycles in their region! (https://www.facebook.com/WelcometotheGoldenPAge/)
The author notes:
“King Tuts crown is the shape of the Sun as its light bends crossing the horizon line.
The bird and flail side of his body relates to when the Sun is higher and shining a column of light on the water.
The snake and crook side is a lower Sun touching the horizon without its column of light reflecting on Earth's surface.
High on the left and low is on the right because when facing the rising Sun North of the Equator,
the higher summer Sun rises on the horizon slightly to the left of straight East and the lower winter Sun rises to the right of straight East.
This is the same exact concept we see on the Eye of Horus, summer | bird < equinox | eye > winter | snake.”
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