"The King and the Land are One"

Geosiris is the name given by Vincent Brown to an extraordinary discovery which he and I have made made in the mythic geography of Ancient Egypt.

As Isis buried the 14 (or 15 or 16) parts of Osiris throughout Egypt, his measure may be found embedded in the dimensions of the landscape itself. The above cypher shows the extent and divisions of To-Mera, the Land that was Measured, according to Professor Livio Stecchini. Overlaying this is the form of the canonical man of Ancient Egypt. He measures 18 units to the brow, and 19 to the top of the crown.

In addition to providing the template for all Egyptian depictions of the human form, (at least up to the Late Kingdom when the canon was slightly altered), this ratio of 18:19 is full of significance. It relates to the cycle of eclipses, for example, in that 19 Saros cycles, (or returns of the sun to the same node of the moon), is virtually equal to 18 solar years.

It also provides the ratio of height to width of the regular pentagon.

The Method for reproducing the geometry of Rennes is based upon a grid of 18 by 19 inch squares.

Allegorical Group representing the Nile (Museum of the Vatican)

The exact dimensions of the above diagram are left out in this page, the better to grasp the image of man as the archetype and measure of a land and a river and a nation. However, they are given elsewhere on this site for the keen reader who wishes to piece the details together, to remember Osiris, and to investigate the astonishing correspondences of his occult anatomy in the siting of temples and other significant sites. There is much to be gleaned from this map of Egypt-as-Osiris.

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