I wanted to go straight to the study of Horus' face, but have to make one important observation before I do. It is much easier to see what is front of us when we understand what we are looking for. This is probably why the true nature off the two collosus has escaped many (although, I'm quite certain some people MUST be in the know).
So, at least one evidence that these are not stone statues is in order. Even though, it is quite certain that some people will need to go back and forth through this column to make sense of it when all is said and done. Please excuse me, this is a work in progress, a kind of draft.
From experience, some people will have difficulty seeing anything but stone... Usually, people who cannot draw. These objects are next to the Nile, and who knows how many times they have been immersed in muddy waters. This worked very well for a friend of mine, who works as a scrap dealer: picture mechanical parts covered in mud. In minutes he could spot details I had missed, even though the subject of physical evidence of Egyptian gods was not really interesting to him
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Here is a side view of the Colossus. I'll call the one closer to us Osiris, and the other one Horus, for now. They are in fairly bad shape... "Osiris" looks like it feel flat on its face before sitting down, and "Horus" looks likes it was hacked to pieces and hastily put back together.
#1. Source:
www.jacobmetcalf.co.uk/egypt/egypt.html
www.jacobmetcalf.co.uk/egypt/images/egypt026-large.jpg
Let's have a closer look at "Osiris":
#2. Source:
protegeonslanature.eklablog.net/les-colosses-de-memnon-a115068536
ekladata.com/qY1AQ1WNzJLzPwrDLGyVsAc1nkc.jpg
Now, if "Osiris" had been made of solid rock, we should expect his face to be broken, and the pieces would have fallen off quite cleanly. Here we get a sense that the face is flattened and the pieces stayed stuck in place. Common sense tells me that means he was somewhat hollow when the damage occurred, and that something (skin, maybe?) kept the pieces in place for a while after that. At least long enough for the mineralization process to begin.
In the frontal view below, one can tell the face has also slipped clockwise a bit, along with the torso. We'll get back to the torso later.
#3. Source:
wildbirdscollective.com/egypte-necropole-thebes/
wildbirdscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Egypte-Nil-Colosse-Memnon-Christophe-Levet-WBC-16-sur-42.jpg
Zoom on the left ear from image #2. The bottom f the earlobe has fallen off, letting us see there is some kind of structure inside. The ear is a bit askew, it's titled towards the back, and there is a hole on the side of the skull where it should be attached.
#4. Detail from image #2, 200% zoom
On the right side, I've put numbers right on the areas of interest, so you can examine them on the left.
1. This is obviously hollow. It does look like the ear is a thin shell.
2. One of the bars holding the shell in place.
3. The ear is tilted back, this hole on the side of the skull is right where the ear should have been.
4. Is this a sheared tubular support?
5. This looks like a tear in the ear shell.
6; These circular features sure are interesting. In general mechanics, circular features usually indicate a pivot point. Was this assembly supple?
7. Folds in this area give it the looks of fabric.
8. These features give a clue that there may be more mechanical parts just below the surface..
9. Is this a support? It looks quite complex for a simple support, it goes all the way inside the skull... I've marked with a rectangle this square feature with a small knob in the center, again this looks like a pivot point. This could be an actuator.
That's it for now on the ear. But there are countless more details to examine. I believe there is a lot to learn in these objects, for anyone interested in humanoid robotics. The details are not only indicative of a machine, but everything is in the right scale and placed right where it should be. As we'll see in the following posts, the amount of details to go over is quite staggering, and a proper study would take years.
Anyway, this one post is only an introduction to the prism, or bias, one has to have to examine properly these two 'statues'. It's much easier to see what is in front of you when you know what you are looking at. A friend of mine, who scraps metal for a living, struggled to understand what I was seeing. Once I explained that he should imagine a pile of scrap auto parts covered in mud, he started to see, and even pointed to more details I hadn't noticed
Here is a closer look at this earlobe, it is quite amazing. I have optimized the aperture (using automatic levels) for better contrast.
This quick look at "Osiris" was fun. We should be ready to look at Horus' head next. It's about time, since he's what makes this discovery so special.
Comments and discussion are welcome. I am still experimenting on the visuals, so if that does not work, let me know. I am always looking for material related to paleorobotics. And high definition images of the Colossus, the more the better, good quality, high definition pictures of the Colossus are quite rare on the Internet.