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Hypaethral – A Roofless Temple

November 26, 2008 – 11:17 am

I came across a new word today in my inbox – hypaethral (\hye-PEETH-rul\). Webster defines this adjective as: 1 : having a roofless central space 2 : open to the sky What caught my interest was that this word is applied mostly to ancient temples. The example sentence that was given was: During our tour [...]

By Bryce Haymond | Posted in Artifacts | Also tagged architecture, construction, design, greek, heaven, holy of holies, latin, open | Comments (11)

The Origin of the Letter “E”

February 17, 2008 – 9:27 am

The Encyclopedia Britannica reports what is speculated to be the origin of the letter “E” in our modern alphabet: The letter E may have started as a picture sign of a man with arms upraised, as in Egyptian hieroglyphic writing (1) and in a very early Semitic writing used in about 1500 BC on the [...]

By Bryce Haymond | Posted in Practices, Texts | Also tagged egyptian, hieroglyph, letter e, origin, prayer circle, praying, signs, uplifted hands | Comments (3)

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