The Cosmic Game

Cosmic Game © Douglass A. White, 2012 v151207 25
Now we can apply this to an Egyptian doorway. Notice that the overall design in the
above drawing resembles the Greek capital letter Π. The two sides of the doorway form
two Towers like the legs of Baba bb. Each is 5 square blocks high. At the top of each
column we rotate the diagonal of the upper two blocks to its vertical high point, thus
extending each column by a plinth of (√5 - 2) for a total height from the ground of π =
1.2 φ².
The opening of the doorway is 10 units wide, and each block is 6 units on a side. A
stack of 5 such blocks totals 30 units, which gives us a 3:1 opening that is equivalent to
the 9x3 grid for the Senet Oracle Board to the left of the Tower. The extra small plinth
does not come out exactly to the tenth row, for a true Senet Oracle Board would be
33⅓:10, or 10:3 (rather than 31.416). So this doorway is not the same as the Karnak
entrance. Lamy's drawing does not show such a plinth. To form the accurate ratio of a
Senet Tarot Board, the doorway opening would be 9.4248 (i.e. 3 π) units wide and 31.416
(i.e. 10 π) units high. To form a 9/3 = 3/1 ratio, the space would have to be 10.472 (i.e.
10π/3) units wide. However, the architrave over the doorway is 16.5/5 = 33.3/10, which
is the proper ratio for the Senet Board.
Now we return to our starting point at the entrance to the Temple of Amen as depicted on
the Amen colonnade wall at Luxor. To be certain about the drawing we can go back to
check the original pylon that still stands at Karnak. This is now called Pylon Two,
because another unfinished pylon was later erected outside that pylon and is now called
Pylon One.
Temple of Amen, Pylon Two
(viewed from a distance across the paved courtyard)
Above is a photo of the Pylon and Portal from a distance so that you can see the scale of
the entrance compared to the tiny people standing by it and the vast courtyard. Below is
a detail in color. We can still make out the ornamentation faithfully copied by Lucie