The Cosmic Game

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Asar's buttock. This Senet Board is 1 1/9 meter long and 1/3 meter wide. The fractal
portion is exactly 1 meter by 1/3 meter.
For pictures of crowns, see:
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/crowns2.htm
References:
Schwaller de Lubicz, R.A. The Egyptian Miracle: An Introduction to the Wisdom of
the Temple. Translated by André and Goldian VandenBroeck. New York: Inner
Traditions, 1985. (See "Man and Measure", pp. 92-105.)
Schwaller de Lubicz, R.A. The Temple of Man: Apet of the South at Luxor.
Translated by Deborah and Robert Lawlor. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 1998.
(See Vol. 2, "The Master Builders' Grid", pp. 842-845.)
The Senet Game Board and the Solar-Lunar Calendar
It is fairly easy to recognize that the Senet Game Board was designed to be a perpetual
calendar. The Egyptian Solar Year consisted of 12 months of 30 days each plus 5
Epagomenal Days for a total of 365 days. The Egyptian month was then divided into
three dekans of ten days each. The Senet Game Board clearly is meant to be a calendar
designed as a grid with thirty days divided into three weeks of ten days.
Symbols on a Senet Game Board
(Reconstructed from surviving examples and the Senet Game Text)
The Senet Game Text also clearly encodes a sequence that goes from the upper left
corner to the right across the top row, then to the left across the middle row, and finally to
the right across the bottom row. Square #1 belongs to Thoth who begins the New Year
and the New Moon at the start of each lunar month. His curved beak represents the
appearance of the first thin crescent of a new moon. The sun (symbolized by a solar
disk) and the moon (symbolized by a net) appear respectively at squares 14 and 16 in the
sequence. Square 15 has a large frog, and represents the time of the full moon when the
sun and the moon appear on opposite horizons at dawn and dusk. On the bottom row the
moon goes through a symbolic death sequence that culminates in square #27. Squares
28 through 30 represent the dark moon that is preparing for rebirth. Senet Game
Boards frequently leave most of the squares blank but often leave the glyphs for the last