Atlantis, Georgia has an interesting kind of step pyramid benben (far left) a more standard benben to the right of it and yet another eight-sided -or octagonal benben to the right. Don't know if the Atlantis Hawks basketball team or the Atlantis Falcons football team tie into any of this symbolism.
Boston, home of America's first Masonic lodge, has an interesting truncated pyramid roof and a glowing light above it. If you're thinking "all seeing eye," I got your back. The Monolith next to it is the Hancock Tower. Note: The Atlantis Braves were originally the Boston Braves.
Chicago has an illuminated benben obelisk.
As does Cleveland, largest city in the 17th state of the US.
Des Moines is no slouch in the illuminated benben department.
Here's a surprise- Dubai has an illuminated-benben obelisk. Or maybe that isn't a surprise.
Neither is Frankfurt, the financial capital of Germany.
By that token, neither should Kowloon's Asian twist on the step pyramid and heavenly beam.
Reader Mark alerted me to this illuminated pyramid at London's Canary Wharf.
Minneapolis has a green illuminated capstone.
What's more, the ever-reliable Yahoo! News put up a beauty shot of it on its front page while I was preparing this article. How about that for Synchronicity?
Montreal has a obelisk without an illuminated capstone. What's that about?
Of course, we all know about the illuminated pyramid at the Louvre in Paris from The Da Vinci Code.
New York's got all sorts of interesting architecture, including the illuminated-benben obelisk on the left there.
As does Philly, the new City of the Sun.
Heading for the West Coast we see another truncated pyramid (this one eight-sided) and floating all seeing eye, similar to Boston's.
San Francisco is famous for its pyramid, which is actually more of an obelisk. Appropriately ambiguous for a city with so many gender-bending citizens.
Seattle has its own space age conflation of the obelisk/dome motif. Kind of like the Masonic lodge that George Jetson would belong to. There's an interesting green benben stone behind it, but the Space Needle is interesting for another reason...
...the Heavenly Beam it shoots out from time to time.
Shanghai goes for the obelisk/dome motif with an unbelievably phallic looking building in the center there.
Toronto also does the whole illuminated obelisk/dome thing, both of which reflect on Lake Ontario. Quite an interesting array of examples of this type of symbolism. What could it possibly all mean? Are they trying to tell us something?Maybe the people who create these buildings aren't trying to tell us anything. Maybe they're only talking to each other. Maybe they don't care what you think about it at all.
There's a thought, huh?