Thanos5150 Wrote:
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> > Assuming the drawing below is correct, it is
> > interesting to note the 1st Dynasty stepped
> > pyramid mastaba 3038 is also oriented the
> > Mesopotamian way with the corners aligned to
> the
> > cardinal points:
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> The 1st Dynasty tombs at Saqqara:
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> Dynasty 0/1 tombs at Shunet ez-Zebib (Abydos):
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> "2nd Dynasty" Khasekhemwy fortress as seen
> directly above:
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> All oriented the "Mesopotamian way".
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> 3rd Dynasty complex at Saqqara:
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> The norm from thereafter.
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> Obviously things changed in which they oriented
> the faces to the cardinal points instead of the
> corners. Considering the rest of the monumental
> changes that abruptly occurred at the very
> beginning of the 3rd Dynasty following the unrest
> of the 2nd Dynasty, I find this quite interesting.


I think that anyone with reasonable knowledge of AE beliefs and the Mechanisms in Kingship in the Old Kingdom finds it blatantly obvious that these aspects were morphing exponentially at that time.

Khasekhemwy appears to have embraced symbology from all the nomes and the rest of their Known world as part of his demonstrative building projects. This process never stopped until the onset of the 1st Intermediary period.

Warwick