The Cosmic Game

Cosmic Game © Douglass A. White, 2012 v151207 47
The remarkable feature of the Senet Board Spiral is that it converges on the tip of the
Tower Obelisk, which is the center of the solar spark on the obelisk's pyramidion. Also
it gives us nice neat multiples of 10 at each iteration instead of many irrational numbers.
Of course, it is also possible to make a TER spiral that stays within the starting Senet
Board the way a Phi Spiral stays within its original Golden Rectangle. However, the
simple TER spiral does not make a Senet Board Spiral or neatly encode the multiples
(powers) of 10.
The tip of the Tower in Egyptian mythology represents the Big Bang, the concentrated
point from which the universe emerges. The above drawing shows the Big Bang
emanating as the Cosmic Sun from the tip of Tem's Tower. In the analogy with Menew,
the ithyphallic god of procreation whose name also stands for the whole Senet Board, the
tip top of the Tower is the orifice on the glans of the phallus of Tem from which the
"cosmic semen" energy emanates and evolves into the physical matter of the universe.
Less than half of the circle/sphere emanating from the Tower is in the Senet Board of the
visible physical World.
Egyptian mathematics was an ingenious combination of a base 10 and a base 2 (binary)
system. The numbers from 1 to 9 were represented by notches 1, 11, 111, 1111, 11111,
111111, 1111111, 11111111, and 111111111. These could represent the columns on
the Senet Board to the left of the Tower. The number 10 was written as ∩. Then the
decades were simply ∩∩, ∩∩∩, ∩∩∩∩, ∩∩∩∩∩, and so on up to 100.
symbols used for the higher powers of ten.
v K 3 t p
Here are the
100 1,000 10,000 100,000 1,000,000
This takes us up to the sixth power of ten. To get higher powers of ten you had to
multiply in various combinations. The formula for multiplication was "wah tep em A
sep B" (bow [or place] the head [i.e. increment] by A times B) , where A and B are the
two numbers to be multiplied.
nym
ym∩pp = 10⁷
nym
ymvpp = 10⁸