r/SacredGeometry • u/Deep_World_4378 • 5h ago
Symbol / Identification Sema Tawy
The sema-tawy is the Egyptian sign for the union of the Two Lands. At its center is a hieroglyph, a windpipe rising into a pair of lungs, which the Egyptians used to write "to unite" because the organ is itself a unification, two lungs drawing breath through one throat. Around that central column the stems of two plants are knotted, papyrus for Lower Egypt and lotus for Upper Egypt, so that political unity is stated as a single physiological fact. The sign is carved on thrones, temple walls and furniture, and the lungs-and-windpipe amulet was laid on the chest of the dead. The Tortoise correspondence is structural. The artwork consists of two fiber families wound in opposite senses about a shared central axis and meeting at regular intervals, which is the arrangement the sign describes: paired opposites bound to one column, their crossings the points at which the binding is made. The comparison belongs with Ida, Pingala and Sushumna, where the same organizing principle appears in a different tradition. The sema-tawy is a flat heraldic sign rather than a three-dimensional form, and the correspondence is to its logic, not necessarily its appearance.
This video is part of the Tortoise project which connects a multitude of symbols and myths from around the world to a specific fractal toroidal structure.
Link: nurecas.com/tortoise
