Today though, while listening to an old tape of Dr. Leonard Jeffries, I had a BINGO! moment which centered around the America's great Black hope--none other than Barack Obama! My brother. The man I want to be president. Not because I expect anything from him, but because, like my Egyptian ancestors before me, I know the significance of symbolism. That said. I don't want to give any ammunition to his detractors, but I had to immortalize this observation.
Here's the thing, I didn't see any reason for Obama to recreate a Washington monument in a Dallas stadium. I thought it was a bit over the top. I couldn't see the sense of it, but I know there had to be a reason for it. No one does a thing without reason.
Well this is what I came up with. Short version 'cause I'm sleepy. As you may know today is the anniversary of MLK's I had a dream speech in 1963. The site for this speech was at the Lincoln Memorial which he seems to be recreating in the Denver stadium. Get it? But that's not all. I mean the above is good for a surface explanation, even though I haven't read any news persons making this connection, so it makes me wonder, of all the speculation, why not this? There are jokes and ridicule yet none of these supposed learned people can come up with this simple scenario? All they say is, is that Obama is recreating a "Greek Temple." Why?
Many festivals were celebrated in Thebes. The Temple of Luxor was the center of the most important one, the festival of Opet. Built largely by Amenhotep III and Ramesses II, it appears that the temple's purpose was for a suitable setting for the rituals of the festival. The festival itself was to reconcile the human aspect of the ruler with the divine office. During the 18th Dynasty the festival lasted eleven days, but had grown to twenty-seven days by the reign of Ramesses III in the 20th Dynasty. At that time the festival included the distribution of over 11,000 loaves of bread, 85 cakes and 385 jars of beer. The procession of images of the current royal family began at Karnak and ended at the temple of Luxor. By the late 18th Dynasty the journey was being made by barge, on the Nile River. Each god or goddess was carried in a separate barge that was towed by smaller boats. Large crowds consisting of soldiers, dancers, musicians and high ranking officials accompanied the barge by walking along the banks of the river. During the festival the people were allowed to ask favors of the statues of the kings or to the images of the gods that were on the barges. Once at the temple, the king and his priests entered the back chambers. There, the king and his ka (the divine essence of each king, created at his birth) were merged, the king being transformed into a divine being. The crowd outside, anxiously awaiting the transformed king, would cheer wildly at his re-emergence. This solidified the ritual and made the king a god. The festival was the backbone of the pharaoh's government. In this way could a usurper or one not of the same bloodline become ruler over Egypt.
The stage being built has a platform that rises from the ground. Nuff said.
