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Also buried in the tomb of King Tut was a special golden mask. The mask was made from solid gold inlaid with opaque blue glass, imitating lapis lazuli. The mask was made from two pieces of beaten gold sheets, accurate to within one thousandth of an inch in thickness across the entire surface. It measures 54 centimetres (approximately 1 foot 10 inches) high and weighs 10.23 kilogrammes (22 1/2 pounds).
The official interpretation of the significance of the piece simply states that the mask portrays Tutankhamun as Osiris, wearing the nemes, the headcloth of royalty, with a pigtail down the back. The forehead carries the vulture and cobra symbols of Upper and Lower Egypt.
But there is much more to the the mask than this. Because upon close examination of the mask, from the rear, follows the outline of a Human male symbol representing fertility. The pigtail becomes the central vein along the shaft of the symbol. The rear of the top of the symbol is covered with (26) rays of the Sun (the duration of the equatorial magnetic field of the Sun, on the Sun's surface, in days), linking the Sun with Tutankhamun, and both again, with fertility.
The pigtail also resembles the tail of a bee, which is an insect known to be controlled by the Sun's radiation.
From the front elevation, the number of horizontal bands corresponds with the rotation of the Sun's equatorial magnetic field seen from the Earth, the 28-day fertility cycle.
The official interpretation of the significance of the piece simply states that the mask portrays Tutankhamun as Osiris, wearing the nemes, the headcloth of royalty, with a pigtail down the back. The forehead carries the vulture and cobra symbols of Upper and Lower Egypt.
But there is much more to the the mask than this. Because upon close examination of the mask, from the rear, follows the outline of a Human male symbol representing fertility. The pigtail becomes the central vein along the shaft of the symbol. The rear of the top of the symbol is covered with (26) rays of the Sun (the duration of the equatorial magnetic field of the Sun, on the Sun's surface, in days), linking the Sun with Tutankhamun, and both again, with fertility.
The pigtail also resembles the tail of a bee, which is an insect known to be controlled by the Sun's radiation.
From the front elevation, the number of horizontal bands corresponds with the rotation of the Sun's equatorial magnetic field seen from the Earth, the 28-day fertility cycle.