The Circle and the Pentagon:
Wherein the 18 and 19 of Ancient Egyptian Biometrics
Part III
©Lorena Loo
Wherein the 18 and 19 of Ancient Egyptian Biometrics
Part III
©Lorena Loo
With the understanding that Vitruvian Man has the canon of 19:18 built into its design, it means the length of Vitruvian Man will just form the diagonal of a pentagon and the length from the soles of the feet to the brow will lie along the height of the same pentagon. The two figures below illustrate that with the first figure also indicating the three successive phi cuts (red dots) on Vitruvian Man.
The next diagram is a synthesis of previous diagrams. On the right hand side, I show how three sucessive phi cuts divides Vitruvian Man into phi proportions. The left hand side of the diagram shows the reverse phi cut in green lines and the normal phi cut in the blue lines.
If you have looked closely at the image of Vitruvian man, you probably noticed the unusual position of the feet both where they are together and where they are spread apart. In both instances, the feet are at right angles (90 degrees) with one another. Did that wily Leonardo da Vinci leave a clue to something by positioning the feet of Vitruvian man that way?
A golden triangle formed by two diagonals and one side of a pentagon has the same height as the pentagon. That height will divide the golden triangle exactly into two, forming two right angle triangles. In the diagram below, I illustrate how the proportions of Vitruvian man will fit the sides of both the right angle triangle and the golden triangle.
A golden triangle formed by two diagonals and one side of a pentagon has the same height as the pentagon. That height will divide the golden triangle exactly into two, forming two right angle triangles. In the diagram below, I illustrate how the proportions of Vitruvian man will fit the sides of both the right angle triangle and the golden triangle.
There is much more to square grids which the Egyptians used in drawing their figures than appears on the surface. There is a "golden" canon of human proportions if you only know how to look for it.
Leonardo certainly knew about this canon, a canon involving numbers (18, 19, phi) which resonate with natural cycles in our solar system involving the Sun and the Moon.
In our very bodies the Eastern spiritual traditions tell us are the ida and the pingala, two of the three major nadis or subtle energy channels. The ida is the lunar channel, the pingala the solar. There is also the Svadhisthana chakra located in the genital center whose symbolic representation also includes a crescent moon which is said to appear over water when saying the seed or bija mantra for this chakra. The genitals divide the body into two equal halves. Above that chakra is the Manipura, located at the solar plexus and whose principle is that of fire. The navel is opposite this fire center of the spine and the location of the phi cut of our bodies.
When the ancients built their temples, were they also monuments to the temples within as they were without?
To cite Kabir:
Why wander in the outer garden? In your body there is a garden, an endless world….There the lamps of a million suns and moons are shining….
Leonardo certainly knew about this canon, a canon involving numbers (18, 19, phi) which resonate with natural cycles in our solar system involving the Sun and the Moon.
In our very bodies the Eastern spiritual traditions tell us are the ida and the pingala, two of the three major nadis or subtle energy channels. The ida is the lunar channel, the pingala the solar. There is also the Svadhisthana chakra located in the genital center whose symbolic representation also includes a crescent moon which is said to appear over water when saying the seed or bija mantra for this chakra. The genitals divide the body into two equal halves. Above that chakra is the Manipura, located at the solar plexus and whose principle is that of fire. The navel is opposite this fire center of the spine and the location of the phi cut of our bodies.
When the ancients built their temples, were they also monuments to the temples within as they were without?
To cite Kabir:
Why wander in the outer garden? In your body there is a garden, an endless world….There the lamps of a million suns and moons are shining….
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© by Lorena Loo
In the instances where images in the public domain have been modified as in the case of geometrizing them, the modified images are no longer public domain but the copyright of the author who made the modifications. Here that means me, Lorena Loo. That is by copyright law.
Images:
First two images of Egyptian grid figures and Mayan tablet: Serpent in the Sky by John Anthony West, pg 188-190
Agrippa's pentagram man (sans colored geometries) & Cosmic Man (sans colored geometries): Libri Tres de Occulta Philosophia, Book II; Chapter xxvii by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Thoth holding bowl with scepter and ankh (sans colored geometries): Gods of the Egyptians by E. Wallis Budge
Vitruvian Man (sans colored geometries): The Notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci, Vol. 1 pp. 182-3. Translatedby Jean Paul Richter, 1883
Stonehenge Trilithon: (adapted from) Stonehenge: A Temple Restored to the British Druids by William Stukeley
Bas relief from Temple of Luxor: Secrets of the Great Pyramid by Peter Tompkins, pg 195
Single Egyptian figure on square grid (sans colored geometries): (adapted from) The Power of Limits by Gyorgy Doczi
First two images of Egyptian grid figures and Mayan tablet: Serpent in the Sky by John Anthony West, pg 188-190
Agrippa's pentagram man (sans colored geometries) & Cosmic Man (sans colored geometries): Libri Tres de Occulta Philosophia, Book II; Chapter xxvii by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Thoth holding bowl with scepter and ankh (sans colored geometries): Gods of the Egyptians by E. Wallis Budge
Vitruvian Man (sans colored geometries): The Notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci, Vol. 1 pp. 182-3. Translatedby Jean Paul Richter, 1883
Stonehenge Trilithon: (adapted from) Stonehenge: A Temple Restored to the British Druids by William Stukeley
Bas relief from Temple of Luxor: Secrets of the Great Pyramid by Peter Tompkins, pg 195
Single Egyptian figure on square grid (sans colored geometries): (adapted from) The Power of Limits by Gyorgy Doczi
Remember the canon of 18 from the feet to the brow. That forms the length of the height of the shaded triangle. From the feet to the top of the head is 19 and forms the length of the side of the shaded triangle. The base of the shaded triangle is one half that of the golden triangle which is in phi ratio to its side. The base of the golden triangle then is simply the longer phi cut length of Vitruvian man. As a normal phi cut, it is the length from the feet to the navel. As a reverse phi cut, it is the length from the top of the head to a point above the knees.
We give the last word or rather image to Thoth, that multi-faceted neter from ancient Egypt. Schwaller de Lubicz discovered that the unusual dimensions of Thoth were determined by successive hexagons circumscribed within a 19:18 grid. Below is a square grid in which I drew a circle of radius equal to 21 grid units. I then formed the inscribed hexagon (the hexagon that just fits inside the circle). Thoth can be fitted within the hexagon as shown below such that his height is equal to 18.12 grid units to two decimals accuracy.
We give the last word or rather image to Thoth, that multi-faceted neter from ancient Egypt. Schwaller de Lubicz discovered that the unusual dimensions of Thoth were determined by successive hexagons circumscribed within a 19:18 grid. Below is a square grid in which I drew a circle of radius equal to 21 grid units. I then formed the inscribed hexagon (the hexagon that just fits inside the circle). Thoth can be fitted within the hexagon as shown below such that his height is equal to 18.12 grid units to two decimals accuracy.
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