Warwick L Nixon Wrote:
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> and the effect of those would have been best
> viewed from Memphis as well. The sun's dawn rays
> would have caught the top at virtually the same
> time that the sun was visable over the horizon.
> To my thinking the symbology is plain, dare I
> say....Elemental. In both cases the effects are
> powered by the sun,thereby emphasizing the
> importance of same, and via such, the importance
> of the King himself.
>
Technically speaking, the sun's rays would have come over the horizon and touched the tops of any tall structure, lighting that part first.
The reflection of a pyramidal shape, however, would have been directed upward, not downward toward the viewers below.
Anthony
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think.