Firstly, I should have said the scene "transpires" in lower and upper Egypt, since the symbolism depict a transformational process, though the symbols in the Tanis pyramid are vague. The djed pillat doesn't work well, Horus looks like a sitting sparrow, and the beak of the ibis is not long or bent enough. Still, the idea is there because there is "movememnt" in the heart of the pyramid.

The man and women in the pyramid are positive and negative polarities. If the rope "sags"lol, that's a good thing because the tension between the polar opposites loosens and the 2 are gradually on the way of uniting. Polarities in ancient Egypt are represented by red and white crown, and lower and upper Egypt. The best know polarity is probably the Caduceus of Hermes with the black and white serpent, symbol of the healing profession. Healing occurrs when the tension between polarities collapse, and when the king of Egypt celebrates his "re-newal festival, viz, he comes "forth as a strong Spirit in the form of a man and women forever and forever", he is entitled to the "double crown"and becomes ruler of both lands. Or as Ritva put it in that past thread "the king declares himself present in the two worlds at the same time." That is being healed.

In that thread also, Morph jokes that the bodies of the 2 serpents winding around the 2 staffs Hermes holds in his left hand are "electric cables to make the monkeys funny hats light up in the dark." In his right hand Hermes holds an ankh to Seti's nose to smell life eternal when "the Ur-urti goddesses grant such gifts on to me when my tearss start from me as I see myself journeying at the divine festival of Tena in Abydos..."

In the context I'm talking about, we can easily exchange the two serpents of the Caduceus, or the red and white crowned baboon/cobras of Abydos, with the cobras of the Tanis pyramid. Anything to do with serpents or fire spitting cobras has to do with transformation or protection in the greater picture.

Charlotte