Hey! Look at the rocket engines at the top of the ancient rockets that existed long before ancient Egypt. Makes sense.
Part of the problem with our rockets is that they must balance on the engines to work. We had many rocket launch failures before we could perfectly balance our rockets atop their engines.
The ancients from long before ancient Egyptian times --- who the Egyptians copied in their temple pillar designs in at least one temple, though they probably didn't know what they were copying --- built their engines at the top of their rockets so that the center of balance was below the driving force. This made balancing the rockets far less critical than in our modern rocket counterparts. They probably used a form of tungsten in their rocket skins to resist the high temperatures product by the rocket thrust exhaust.
Watch this 10 and a half minute video -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8-WWVlk_3E. Start at about 6 and a half minutes, and watch through minute 8 to see what I mean. It's all there, the rockets with their engines, pointed to the skies above.
What do you think?
That you're high? I take it you're talking about the pillars inside that temple dedicated to astronomy? You're just seeing what you want to see there. It just looks like a normal pillar with heads decorating the top to me. You know, like you can see all over the place. But that's art, not rocket science.
What?! You didn't see the rocket engines in the headdresses adorning the heads/faces atop the pillar rockets? Well... thanks for your post anyway.
Of course the whole pillar rocket is going to be different than a real rocket would be. The ancient Egyptians who built the temple were only imitating the rocket builders, who were ancient even to them. They were imitating, like a small child imitates his father, as he plays with his little toy tool bench, attempting to get each of the wooden imitation tools into its proper hole in the bench.
Look up at the bottom of the headdresses. Notice how they are more or less round at their bottoms. The real ones would have been perfectly round. There would have been indentations in the sides of the rocket below the engines, so that the effect of the blast of the engines would have flowed smoothly. The indentations would have been lined with some form of heat-resistant material.
Why aren't the rocket engine indentations shown? For the same reason that the bottoms of the headdresses don't curl in a perfect circle. The headdress has been changed over time by the various rulers of Egypt, who were only mimicking the rockets of the ancients. Some distant ancestors of the Egyptians had seen the rockets, handed down what they saw, and over time it was all changed into a head on top of the body (rocket body/ruler body), but the basic picture has been handed down over the millennia rather well.
Look down the side of the rocket pillars, several feet below the head. Notice the carved ring that circumnavigates the exterior of the rocket pillar. There are windows built into that ring. It's where the rocket passengers sat, below the engines.
In the real rockets, the pilot probably sat at a somewhat conical point above the heads, in a crystal dome of some sort. The dome isn't seen because the pillars are built to hold up the roof of the temple, which has been carved and painted with images of the constellations... the sky where the rockets of the age-old ancients blasted off to, with far more ease than we stumble around through the heavens with our silly bottom-blast rockets.
