Magical Bricks and the Bricks of Birth

Large Mud Brick Enclosures of Egyptian Temples سور المعبد المصرى من الخارج فی عصر الدولة الحدیثة

“…And the bricks were a symbol of birth Meskhenet was the goddess of childbirth and the creator of each child's ka she was sometimes depicted as a brick with a woman's head 43 In ancient Egypt women delivered babies while squatting on a pair of bricks known as birth bricks. 44 Temples with their rectangular sacred area was separated from the surrounding secular space by outer mud brick enclosure wall, they were seen symbolically as boundary providing essential protection against the forces of disorder, temples were fortresses against chaos.…”