the back of the back

On my second visit to the King Tut exhibit at the Luxor Hotel I discovered a small plastic replica of the chair in the gift shop. Ankhe's words "the instructions are on the back of the chair," were etched in my memory, so I was surprised to find that there was a back to the back, as usually the famous chair is viewed or photographed from the front. The back of the back was decorated with a variety of hieroglyphs, and four Wadjets, the Cobra Goddess and Egyptian symbol for protection and healing. On the armrests of the chair are decorative hieroglyphs and a winged Wadjet with a different headdress, and also a smaller version of Wadjet with another headdress. I could get a feel for the hieroglyphs, but nothing I could translate directly, although they seemed to relate to different Egyptian spells for healing or resurrection. Even the lion heads are symbols for Wadjet-Bast. The only symbol I could translate for certainty is the color scheme, Lapis Indigo - representing the physical head and brain, and the physical senses of vision, hearing, and smell, and also a symbol for the third eye of perception. Blood Red - representing the human skeleton or supporting structure, and Turquoise, a blend of blue and green, representing a blend of the Sumari and Ilda essence families traits. This same color scheme, combined with gold, is used over and over in Egyptian artistry, and is a language onto itself.