A hypocephalus (Greek: under the head) is a disc-shaped object that was placed under the head of a deceased person in Ancient Egypt. It symbolized the sun and it was believed to protect the deceased and making him/ her divine. On it was written and pictured the daily setting and rising of the sun. A metaphor for rebirth and death. Day in. Day out. Death not as an end but a new birth. These "under the head suns" (my words) first appeared in the 7th Century BC in Ancient Egypt.
Remember a "under the head sun". Making the deceased divine.
And what do we see in the christian iconography? A halo, this is a circle or disk of light that surrounds a holy or sacred figure.
Coincidence? Question: is a halo an echo of the Ancient Egyptian 'under the head sun'?
Mark, that we can read the hypocephalus also as a roadmap of day and night, of live on Earth and between the sun and stars on a bark, of being alive and death. From this perspective the christian halo can be interpreted as he/ she who knows the road.
P.S. Source hypocephalus: here. Source Maria with child with halo: here.
Mark, that we can read the hypocephalus also as a roadmap of day and night, of live on Earth and between the sun and stars on a bark, of being alive and death. From this perspective the christian halo can be interpreted as he/ she who knows the road.
P.S. Source hypocephalus: here. Source Maria with child with halo: here.
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