When I was over in Egypt on holiday a few years ago, I noticed that many of the paintings of young women in tombs and other ancient monuments had strange elongations, or bumps, on the crown of their head. They looked like servants to the Pharaoh and they exuded a youthful beauty. I asked the Egyptian tour guide what the ‘bumps’ were meant to tell us, but he did not know.
Since then I have discovered that Egyptologists generally agree on the idea that these strange shapes are perfume bottles, luxury items intended for the Pharaoh’s pleasure in the Afterlife. On one level makes good sense. Take Tutankhamen for example. Plenty of gold and riches were found in his tomb for that same purpose, or so the text books say. But why carry a perfume bottle on your head? Why not walk with it in your hand? I wanted to explore this strange image further.
Back home after my holiday I asked a fellow healer if he had any ideas. Like myself, he thought the perfume theory unlikely to say the least. He gave me a different answer. The bump was, he told me, a symbolic interpretation of the crown chakra. Instinctively this felt better. It felt good, really good, but it was still just a theory.
So I decided to ask my spirit guide for a clear understanding about head bumps and their symbolic purpose in art., I wanted the truth. This is the channelled response from my spirit guide whom I shall call Tot. It is not his true name but the one he trusts me to use now. I asked Tot to give me a simplified answer, for as I have now discovered, explanations up in the Spirit World can be very complicated. Way beyond our human ability to comprehend, in fact. This is what I was told.
‘First of all, let us explain to you all that we are not Mary, and her opinion here does not matter. The head bumps, as it were, were kind of spoofs really. They recognised the importance of sanctity above all of the process, the initiation, as it were, into the Afterlife. The opening up into Spirit, as it were, of souls who flew the nest from earthling fledglings into spiritual souls. The ba, as you know, was the human aspect of soul that you see when the spirit leaves the body. The ka was, or is, the soul now that it has been cemented to the creative force we call sore spot.
The bump is the fixed term position of the ka. In simple human terms it means the sore spot of the top of the head where the soul leaves through the cranium to reach the stars, as it were. It is opened up here in the depictions, so David is correct in that respect. What he did not foresee is you using us to clarify further, haha!
Why were they drawing this Mary? The Egyptian painters draw it so that the breath can be transpired. A breath is a source of spiritual inspiration needed to draw in the soul when it returns to the Earth on another occasion. To simplify this, the Egyptians were in the know, as it were. They understood far more than you do now about spiritual manoevers. By depicting they understood that it would be far more likely to happen than if it were just left to the imagination. They depicted a top head, the crown, as if it were about to explode outwards. The bump is symbolic of the format by which it happened.
The lady servants are the helpers for sure. They are shown in the female form because they are energetic servants of the light. Female is symbolic of a force that is gentle and nurturing and as such a correct interpretation of the lightness involved by which the process takes place. They are young and beautiful because that is how the process proceeds. It is a beautiful process indeed, and youthful in nature because regeneration is at hand here. The soul regenerates as it returns to Spirit. So, the Egyptians got it right in that respect. They saw the process, as it were, correctly for their own religious belief systems at the time.’
Reading this through I can see that the information is not easy to understand, even though it is simplified! It has fragmented in places. Even though I asked for a simplified form of communication, I guess it has not been totally possible to achieve in human form, as it were. Spiritual concepts are vast, often incomprehensible from our limited Earthly perspective. Nevertheless, I hope dear reader that it gives you, as well as myself, an idea of the spiritual nature of Ancient Egyptian art.