#ZIGGURAT 2 PLATFORMS TRIAL#

The top of the ziggurat was crowned by a temple containing the statue of the god, and representing his or her home. Ascent of the platforms was often restricted to the priests, and was achieved by climbing vast stairways, some stretching out perpendicular to the platform, with others attached to the walls or spiraling around the platform. The huge stepped temple mound-often as long as a football field and generally oriented to the cardinal directions-occupied a prominent place in the courtyard. Ziggurat complexes often included storehouses, residences for priests and kings, and altars for sacrifice. A courtyard surrounded by a sacred enclosure wall-as large as 500 yards square-generally encompassed the ziggurat, creating a ritual plaza for religious ceremonies. The great ziggurat at Khorsabad, for example, had seven different stages each was painted a different color and represented the five known planets, the moon, and the sun.Īlthough the specific architectural details of ziggurats differ, they all exhibit a similar overall structure. The priest’s ascent up the stairway to the temple at the top of the ziggurat represents the ascent to heaven. Symbolically, however, the ziggurat represents the cosmic mountain on which the gods dwell. Functionally, temples were placed on raised platforms to give them prominence over other buildings in a city, and to allow more people to watch the services performed at the temple. Since no such natural heights were available in the flat flood plains of Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), ancient priests and kings determined to build ziggurats (Akkadian ziqqurratu), square or rectangular artificial stepped temple platforms. Most religions have attempted to build their sanctuaries on prominent heights. This would persist for many hundreds of years, allowing archaeologists to discover the different periods of civilization in the first cities formed by humans, starting from 6000 BC onwards.Ziggurats: Temple Platforms of Ancient Mesopotamiaīy Daniel C. Throughout history, these buildings would either be demolished or incorporated into foundations to raise the Ziggurat even higher, with a new set of buildings built on top of this extension. It was normally a large rectangular foundation, upon which multiple buildings would be constructed for individual purposes.

A Ziggurat is a Mesopotamian building of worship, built as a platform upon which Mesopotamian cultures believed the gods dwelt.

They depart for Savathûn's Throne World and concludes that The Lunar Pyramid and the neighboring Europan Pyramid are the stronger points in the Egregore network while the Glykon and the Leviathan are the weaker points. She concludes that the Egregore is connected to 4 different signal points, 2 of which are stronger and the other 2 are weaker. Eris uses the Ziggurat to examine the properties of the Egregore sample recovered from The Derelict earlier. Much later, as the Guardian deals with the Nightmare threat aboard the derelict Leviathan, Eris Morn travels with The Drifter to investigate the hidden nature of Egregore only to discover that Elsie Bray is gone and her companion takes her stead.

#ZIGGURAT 2 PLATFORMS TRIAL#

She finally reveals her identity as Elsie Bray before beginning the quest.Īccording to the AI of Clovis Bray I, the Ziggurat (or a similar structure) has been present in the system since the Golden Age, as he used his former staff to create a simulation trial based on a much larger iteration of the Ziggurat. Upon the retrieval of the final Splinter from Eramis, the Ziggurat acts as locus for allowing the Guardian entry to the Europan Pyramid, where they commune with the statue to gain the ability to wield Stasis outside of Europa and unlock Stasis aspects through its mastery by assisting the Exo Stranger on her quest to decrypt her grandfather Clovis Bray I's journal. The Guardian interacts with the Ziggurat for the first time after acquiring the Splinter of Darkness from the Exo Stranger and return to it after acquiring the other Splinters of Darkness from Phylaks, Praksis, and Eramis respectively. Atop the central platform of the Ziggurat are 4 Stasis Locks with different symbols, which are unlocked by The Guardian through the Splinter of Darkness to gain some understanding of Stasis and eventually wield it against the Barons of House Salvation. It was projected by the Europan Pyramid, and self-assembled into a stepped pyramidal structure embedded near the campsite in the Beyond area of Europa. The Ziggurat is a structure on Europa affiliated with the Black Fleet.

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