[NoraSpinnor]

If you start an additive series with 2 and 3—then keep summing each new term from the prior two—you get 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610… In modern classrooms that progression is usually called “Fibonacci,” but Egyptian design literature treats it plainly as a summation series that predates Fibonacci by millennia. In that framing, you begin with the first two numbers of the Egyptian system (2 and 3) and iterate: each figure is the sum of the two preceding ones.

Why start with 2 and 3? Two reasons show up in Egyptian sources. First, the series ties directly to how Egyptian mathematics operated—practically and additively—by reducing multiplication and division to sums of duplications. Second, the series was treated as a growth rule visible in the world: counts of petals and seeds, pine-cone spirals, and the familiar nautilus growth are all introduced as recurring expressions of the same additive pattern.

Designers then mapped that growth rule into measure. Temple and tomb plans repeatedly show runs of dimensions—measured in cubits (≈0.523 m)—that line up with consecutive terms of the 2, 3, 5, 8… series along the long axis and across the transverse axis. A classic example is the Pyramid (often called “mortuary”) Temple of Khafre at Giza (c. 2500 BCE): key points of the plan step through ten consecutive terms, with the total length reaching 233 cubits.

Mathematically, the importance isn’t just the list of numbers—it’s the ratios between neighbors. As the series progresses, the ratio of successive terms (e.g., 233/144) converges toward what Egyptian sources call the Neb (golden) proportion. In other words, by building with an additive growth rule, you naturally approach the same limiting proportion that later Greek-named φ describes. Egyptian writers also note the “pulsation” in those stepwise ratios (jump, slight dip, rise, settle), using it as a conceptual bridge between living rhythms and built proportion.

Pulling it together: the 2, 3, 5, 8… series matters because it links three layers—nature’s growth regularities, an additive computational culture, and architectural proportioning. Starting from 2 and 3 keeps the arithmetic in the same additive grammar Egyptians used elsewhere. The effect within their temples is partly due to the precision of their measurements. They are carefully calculated embedded nodes within with Net which, when activated, can launch a practitioner into a new state of. consciousness.

Were you aware of the Egyptian origin of the Fibonacci sequence?
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[BlackFernMoon]

So 2 and 3, cool… 4 some reason 233/144 stands out to me. like a powerful code.

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