Egyptian Mythology

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...symbolized in ancient Egyptian mythology and architecture connected with Karnak and Amarna?

The pharaoh was considered, depending on the period of history, to be either the son of the Sun god or his incarnation. This located the pharaoh as indispensable to the prosperity of the country, which depended on the flooding of the Nile for its fertility. This role of the pharaoh and how this was represented in the symbolism of architecture derives from the basic template of the Egyptian creation myth.
One of the earliest Egyptian creation myths pictures the first emergence of earth from the primordial ocean to be a mound of earth (Winston). A mound became associated with the origins of life and this icon ultimately assumed the shape of a “small pyramid”, which was carved from a “single block of stone, known as a bnbn (benben)” (Winston). This name comes from the root, bn, which means to “swell forth” (Winston). To ancient Egyptians, this shape took on the meaning and the energy of the...

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