When I walk under the huge sandstone gate at the entrance of the temple of Hathor at Dendera in Egypt (KMT or Khemit) I always remember what was told to me by the renowned indigenous wisdom keeper, Abd’el Hakim Awyan.  It is the only place in Egypt that you will see the underbelly of the winged Kheper or Scarab beetle.  He completely captured my attention when he went on to say that this meant that you were entering a place that held all the answers to the mysteries of the universe.

Not only did I discover the gravity of what this meant after more than a decade of researching the symbolism and mythologies embodied within what John Anthony West once called the ‘womb of time’, but that this temple contained a significant prophecy concerning this very moment for humanity on earth.

Time appears to be linear in a physical reality. However, the indigenous worldwide tell us that this is an illusion. We measure it through the observance of the motion of eternally spiraling masses that we label as solar, lunar and stellar cycles. However, time is relative to each individual and their viewpoint based on the magnetic force of the spinning bodies reflected in the conscious perception of the observer.  Time is currency in space.  Space is the game board on which we perceive the flow of time.  And this is exactly how the ancients envisioned their temples. They fashioned them as living, breathing physical structures designed to reflect cycles and patterns of the day, seasons, years and ages as well as the energetic structure of (wo)man and the universe mirrored within.

In the Egyptian Book of The Dead (more correctly translated as ‘the Book of Coming Forth by Day’), the scarab beetle symbolizes the heart, transformation and new beginnings. It represents the seed of consciousness migrating through stages and ages of conscious awareness in our perception of time and space.  This eternally cycling pattern of transformation occurs during every day cycle, each annual year, and also in what Plato labelled ‘the Great Year’.

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