Egytian
and the power of Obelisk
Egyptian
believed in one god however, they believe that Pharaoh, the ruler of
Egypt, is the only one who can communicate to god and they built
large pyramids to store and protect the Pharaoh's body when he is
death along with other's in the royal families because they
believed that as long as the Pharaoh is protected, God is protected
and society is protected, it is about sustaining the society.
Pyramid
are very large and the top is point upwards towards the sky from a
belief that Pharaoh can easily rise to heaven, the architecture is
like 'A staircase to heaven is laid for the pharaoh ' Moreover,
there is the Obelisk, which is an 'tall, four-sided, narrow tapering
monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape at the top,' Obelisk is
an architecture that begins on earth and ends in the sky, even though
it is smaller than the pyramid, it stills keep the connections
between land and the sky/heaven.
In
the decline of Egypt around the first century B.C., the Obelisk's
form were taken and place different countries, cities and empires
after that it was taken by the Roman as well as various different
places in the world like the Washington D.C. to be used as a tool
that symbolised triumph.A lot of important architecture of our time
are designed based on Ancient Egypt architecture such as its
pyramids, temples, tombs amd obelisks.
The
famous example is the Empire State building
which is designed like the obelisk to symbolised power and great long
history.
Also
the recent famous building completed in the past decade, 2004,still
has gotten it influences from the architectural form of the Ancient
Egypt's obilisk.
Furthermore,
Harrod, one of the world's most famous department stores building in
London has an area designed to look liek an Egyptian wall with
Egyptian statues, Egytian-style designs, mimicking the art and
sculpture of ancient Egypt.
Moreover,
the luxyrious Luxor Hotel and casino in Las Vegas was build to look
like a pyramid, with a large scale statue ofa pyramid in the front of
the building glazing up at the sky facing the visitor. This is to
symbolized the wealth and gold laid within the pyramid of Egypt as is
laid within the casino of the hotel.
It
is as if Ancient Egypt Empire has grown more powerful as generations
has past rather than faded away with time like many other culture and
ancient culture have been. If
architecture did not help emphasis the belief, more than hundred
pyramids and numbers of obelisks would not have been built because it
required an tremendous amount of workforce to build pyramids and
obilisks where as many as 100,000 slaves worked as forced labor for
decades to build the Great Pyramid at Giza. And if Architecture is
not a powerful tool then the shape and meaning of pyramid and obilisk
would not have been used this much around the world.
