![]() Seti I added his own masterpiece in the thirteenth century BC, during a reign that barely lasted a decade-an elegant temple featuring a series of interconnected halls and side chambers, covered from floor to ceiling in exquisite friezes. Certainly, ancient people treated the location with reverence, so much so that Abydos was already a thriving city by 5400 BC, 1 and two thousand years later pre-dynastic pharaohs were still building shrines, temples and mortuaries there. ![]() That said, it would be a travesty to describe the temple of Seti I at Abydos as trivial, for it is a beautifully preserved jewel of a sacred space. Yet as mystery tradition teaches, the eye is easily deceived by scale to the detriment of seemingly trivial things that lead to greater illumination. When discussing ancient Egypt, much of the attention falls upon grandiose structures like the pyramids, because their superhuman scale is candy to the eye and humans are so easily seduced by the scale of things. ![]() Freddy Silva digs into the history, geology and archaeoastronomy of the Osirion of Abydos, Egypt-a monument he argues was built sometime before 10,000 BC and is mistakenly attributed to Seti I by academics. ![]()
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