In today’s class sir gave us a brief about our final project. For our final project we were supposed to make 6 mindmaps on objects related to our specialisations , from those 6 objects we were supposed to select 2 objects and write an essay on it which would include design intervention. I was a bit confused about what design intervention actually means so i asked sir and got a clear idea as to what it is. Design intervention basically means anything that changes the way a certain thing is done.
What is the most important thing for a civilisation to thrive? For a civilisation to thrive the most important thing is river, agriculture and water
Later, we discussed about Egyptian Civilisation. Egypt is divided into 4 periods – 1] Old, 2] Middle, 3] New, 4] Late( it correlates with Alexander)
- For Julius Caesar pyramids were old
- Nile river runs to the heart of Africa
- Dr Livingstone was an explorer
- River Nile irrigates the land that it runs through
- When the nigges migrated they saw Egypt, they found the farms and everything very attractive and said they could rule over here and be the kings here.
[OSIRIS – God of the Dead , he rules the dead but is not the king of the dead] Nome – is a unit of local governance , Maat means order In the flat line Nome was upheld by the Gods , In the circle the responsibility of maintaining meat lay with the Pharaoh maat.
- Egyptians were the ones who came up with the calendars.
- Egyptians married brothers and sisters
“As Above , So Below ” => Whatever rules you hold on Earth are the rules which you hold above.
One thing Egypt was good at was faience [blue green ceramic] , they used it in pottery , fashioned it in jewelry, cups etc. Egyptians also brewed beer.
- Set kills Osiris [Set is Osiris’s brother] , he cut his body into 41 Pieces and scattered its parts in the entire Egypt. Wherever these parts fell , temples started popping up in those places.
- Osiris was the first mummy
- Isis [Osiris’s wife] and Horus [Osiris’s son] avenged the death of Osiris and slew Set
- Isis and Horus collect all the parts of Osiris’s body . As Osiris is laid on the table, each God comes to him and gives him a boon and puts him together again
- This process later got evolved into mummification.
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