Egypt: The mystery of the Egyptian sculptures with broken noses that gave rise to many assumptions

 

One of the world's oldest and most stable civilizations has been an unexplained mystery among Egyptian experts and fans. And that mystery is the broken nose of the sculptures.

At first look, it seems ordinary that after thousands of years, it is conceivable for any memorials or objects to fall into disorder, but why are there so many antique statues with only a broken nose? Or was missing?

If something was to break, then why the nose

 

This matter has given rise to many assumptions, counting a bitter one that has come up again and again, although it has been repudiated, and that it is the African roots of the European colonialists to the antique Egyptians. There was an effort to erase.

Specialists, on the other hand, declare that the theory is untrue because there is inadequate evidence for it, among other reasons, although they decide that it is not one of them, notwithstanding the many horrors of expansionism. The question is what else could have happened?

Inspiring powers

 

The most imposing answer on this case is summed up in one word and that is the icon classism of the Greek iconoclasms, which means "breaking pictures or statues."

 

We are not talking about the fresh followers of the eighth century who disallowed the difference of sacred distinctions, destroyed them and mistreated those who respected them.

In this case the period is often used more approximately to refer to a social belief about the position of the destruction of images or monuments for religious or social reasons, and when you deliberate that for the antique Egyptians the feeling becomes solider when the statues were the center of message between nature and the terrestrial creatures.

 

The antique Egyptians believed that supernatural powers could be hidden in pictures or sculptures, as clarified by Edward Bleberg, senior curator of Egyptian classical and Middle Eastern art at the Brooklyn Museum.

Bleiberg, who started investigating the problem after being asked by museum visitors why the statues' noses are broken, clarifies why the words "sculptor" and "sculptor" refer to it. Highlight that these statues are alive.

 

'Sculpture' literally means 'something shaped to live' while a sculptor is the one who gives it life. The idea was that belongings that characterize the human form, made of stone, metal, wood, clay or even wax, could have the shadow of God or a person who has died, and so on. He can work in the material world.

 

It is stated by Hathor, the goddess of love, and is emblazoned on the walls of the Dandera Temple, perhaps built by Pharaoh Papi I (2310-2260 BC).

 

There it was written, 'It flies from the prospect to the earth and its soul inclines into its temple and enters its body. In this case the goddess mixes a three-dimensional personality but in the same temple about it there is also conversation of how Osiris, one of the most important gods of antique Egypt, fused to save himself.

 

Osiris comes in the form of a soul and at this point he sees his secretive form. His image is incised on the wall and he enters his secretive form on the wall and sheds light on his image.

"Once the soul is captured, images have powers that can be used through convinced rites and can be counteracted by breaking the statue or image."

 

There were many motives for this, from his anger against his enemies to his oppression in the other world, as well as his wish to rewrite history and change the whole culture.

 

This condition was reversed when Akhnatan died and the Egyptian people recommenced traditional worship. In such a condition, the temples and monuments honoring Atin and the late Pharaoh were destroyed.

 

But we must recollect that not only the gods could fit into the statue, but also the souls of human beings who had died and become holy souls after continuing the painful journey and punishment after death.