Yes, that's the solar baboons, and replicated nine times could be seen as suitable for some form of "mass production", but clearly not, hence my mention.

On the scene from KV14 I would not like to say that I see phi, and to be honest it's what the scene shows that is interesting to me, not ratios that may or may not exist. I will comment though that what we see in the layout, not content, is the normal three register way of presenting the story, with the top register fitting neatly into an arch which, though not explicit, and delving into the content, suits the birth of Ra in three successive forms. So to me it's just the standard three register art form with no emphasis on ratios, but on using specific elements to tell the story from bottom to top.

Not come acoss a 21 square grid, and the "Throne of Akhenaten" presumably the gold throne from the tomb of Tutankhamun ?.

I do get what you are saying about columns where there is, between the scenes with the king and gods, a certain amount of "decorative filler", rows of cobras or lotuses for instance, which could be stencilled, and we might do that today, but that would only be to act as the guide for the painters and stonemasons, and no evidence of them using any other technique other than the grid they used on flat walls has been found. I'm sure they had all manner of handy tricks, but without evidence surviving we would need a time machine to see exactly what they were doing.

Looking through the photo tome on Karnak by de Lubicz, it can be seen that each column or wall is unique. Clearly the scenes showing a king and gods will be different on each column or wall, but overall they are different to each other, and in many cases there are designs that interleave with each other in a way that preludes use of a stencil, let alone mass production.

I'm sure you are aware of their love for symmetry, in most cases, and that this will cause us to see patterns that they did not intend, only an aesthetic that plays into their love of duality. Take a standard temple for instance. If you create this series of spaces getting smaller, then you get patterns which can be seen from the plan, and any number of lines and circles drawn, as de Lubicz did at Karnak, but is that what they intended, or were they just creating an ever smaller series of spaces for esoteric/magical reasons of protecting the shrine and creating this tight secret space, an overall design mirrored in the burials of kings with the shrines, sarcophagus and coffins hiding and protecting the king, a god in his shrine just as the statue of a god in the temple shrine. As I say, I'm sure you have gone over this before, but perhaps worth mentioning.



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