The dawn of astronomy : a study of the temple-worship and mythology of the ancient Egyptians / by J. Norman Lockyer.

  • Norman Lockyer
Date:
1894
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Credit: The dawn of astronomy : a study of the temple-worship and mythology of the ancient Egyptians / by J. Norman Lockyer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    this is entirely chano-ecl; the approach to the temple was outside—witness the glorious propylseum of the Parthenon at Athens—the temple representing, so to speak, only the core, the Holy of Holies, of the Egyptian temple; and any magni- ficent approach to it which could be given was given from the outside. Be it further remarked that the prop^d^eum Avas never in the fair-way of the light entering the tem])le. THE EAST FRONT OF THE PARTHENON, FACING THE RISING OF THE PLEIADES. The massive pylons of some of the Egyptian temples were useful for shading the roofless outer courts. In Greece these were no longer useful. The east front of the Parthenon very mucli more re- sembles the temple of Denderah than it does the early Egyptian temple—that is to say, the eastern front is open; it is not closed by pylons.