#Ancient space temple series#
Sacred Time, Sacred Space, & Sacred Meaning - The Temple on Mount Zion Series Vol.
While the monument has not been excavated, the presence of surface pottery dating from the mid-second century B.C. Surprisingly, no deity is worshipped in the Rajarani Temple. Ancient Temple Worship (The Temple on Mount Zion) Brown, Matthew B. This new discovery may be a unique public monument from the city's early years. Lord Shiva and his female consort are, in fact, depicted dancing in the company of attendants holding musical instruments on three panels inside the main temple itself. These include figures of a mother taking care of her child, a woman checking her reflection in a mirror, taking off her anklet, playing with a bird, playing an instrument, and holding the branches of trees. The Rajarani Temple is noted for the amazing nayikas (temple figures) that are carved in high relief on the walls. There are sculptures of the devas - Indra, Agni, Yama, Nirriti, Varuna, Vayu, Kubera and Isana as well. Around the shrine are sculpted dikpalas or guardians of the eight directions, again, impressively and finely carved. Many have claimed that the Rajarani Temple bears a strong resemblance to the temples of Khajuraho.
In fact, in contravention of the belief, there are Shaiva sculptures carved on the body of the main temple.įlowers and animals along with human figurines are intricately carved on this temple's walls. Interestingly, there have been claims that it used to be a Vaishnava temple earlier, but the presence of several sculptures has successfully repudiated that particular belief. With a lush green cover around it, the temple has picturesque surroundings. From predynastic times (late 4th millennium) onward, cosmological elements can be identified in the design and imagery of objects dedicated in ritual contexts. The void can be seen in the innermost reaches of the temple the garbha griha to represent human ‘inner space’ or the antaraatman. Abstract: The aim of this paper is to address a gap in interpretations of ancient Egyptian pictorial compositions and of the architectural form of temples. Perhaps they or their philosophers thought of the subject. Representing the ‘great unknown’, the outer reaches of space, or even the number ‘0’, Indian architecture uses voids very skillfully to depict sacred space.
Made using sandstone, the Rajarani Temple is an ancient space of worship in Bhubaneswar that is famed for its sculpted figures and tiers of projections, rising to form its 18-m-high tower. The Ancient Egyptians, as far as we know, did not know of spaceships, aliens, or space travel.
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