A vast technical curriculum, encompassing widely different subjects, a center for administrative and economic
management, the main center for worship, a publishing center for scribes---these functions were regarded as belonging together,
constituting that body of knowledge which kept life on societal and individual levels within the temple complex in Ancient
Kmt. Therefore, the temples and the House of Life (perankh) within them filled the important function of a meeting place between
heaven and earth, science and morality, research and pedagogy, initiation and education. Scribes published findings
from these research houses. In effect, they along with the building that they worked within became the backbone and
center of society. Whether a engineer, construction worker, priest, clothes maker, cook, ship captain, or its humblest peasants;
whether it was the teaching of the children of the nobles or the children of workers---this was a "House for Life"
in all shapes and forms.
'The House of Life' could well be called a library, research
center, or publishing house all in one. It was that part of the temple where all records and texts were kept and stored.
These papyri encompassed many different fields of learning as well as the accountings on the daily and yearly economics and
proceedings that went on in the temple compound.
This position of the House of Life emphasized
the temples to be not only a center of worship of the local or national African heroes. They were also the seat of teaching,
education, instruction, and initiation:
Medu-Netru (hieroglyphs):
The symbolic nature of the Medu-Netru; the four divisions of the Medu-Netru; pronouns; types of sentences; conjugation of
verbs; translation of original texts
Natural Medicine: the
healing sciences, sacred anatomy and medicine; the vital organs and their functions; the causes and healing of disease; diagnosis;
nutrition and healing; herbology; physical management; purification, fasting and cleansing.
Mathematics: ancient Kmt mathematics; geometry, trigonometry, algebra, the Pyramid of justice, Maat
Principles, Character of the Divine Triangle; definition and function of music.
Engineering:
All building trades, civil and construction engineering, architectural drawing
Astronomy:
The mapping of the universe, galaxy, and solar system and the basic foundation of the KMTian astrology
Precise
records and all kinds of texts were stored, from the ancient myths of creation to the everyday accounts of grain. Thereby
they served both as the community archives and the center of science, morality, the arts and culture as well as provided the
highest center of education. African researchers must replicate this aspect of their culture today.
