Returning to the ancient Egyptian artist, who was inspired by the legend of the creation of the world, seeing the Milky Way in the sky, and his belief in the god Ra, he represented the sky as a beautiful woman whose body was marked with stars, naming her Nut. He also envisioned the World as a reclining man named Geb; both were the offspring of Shu, the god of wind and air, and of Tefnut, the goddess of humidity. Osiris, Isis, Set, and ed a man with his hands holding the sky, wearing a crown with a symbol of a feather.
The ceilings are painted with the color of water at night in many ancient Egyptian tombs and studded with stars, as if the mother was shielding the dead in their graves with her body. You will note this hierarchical form that the ancient Egyptian artist imagined as the hand of Ra spreading goodness and development on Earth if you look at the sky on a winter day with the clouds filling the sky and sunlight entering them. This was also the inspiration behind the building of the Great Pyramids, one of the Ancient World's Seven Wonders; some scholars affirm the continuity of the construction of the Pyramids with the location in the sky of some stars. Numerous obelisks which stand vertically with pyramidal tops, as if pointing to the sky, were also carved by the ancient Egyptian artist.
The human belief and comprehension of God originated with the descent of Abrahamic scriptures through the Prophets, establishing the World, the Sky, and Adam-peace be upon him-and how Adam and his wife descended from Heaven to Earth, confirming the human belief that heaven is in the sky, which increased the affinity of human beings to and bond with the sky. As a result, the sky is pierced by cathedral towers and mosque minarets, as if lifting the voice of the people to it; perhaps the "Malwiya" minaret in Iraq is the best-known example and is considered one of the most significant ancient Iraqi antiques. The minaret of the Great Mosque of Samarra was constructed in 237 AH by Al-Mutawakkil Billāh Abbasi. Its name was derived from its cylindrical spiral shape; it is constructed of clay at a height of about 52 meters and surrounded by a 2-meter-wide spiral staircase with 399 stairs from the outside, wrapping the body of the minaret counterclockwise. There is a layer that the people of Samarra call the "Gown" at the top of the minaret, which the muezzin ascends to call for prayer.
Inspired by this spiral minaret was the famous minaret of the Ahmed Ibn Tulun Mosque in Cairo. Numerous minarets elevating the voice of the people to the sky were included in the paths of Old Islamic Cairo, the most prominent of which is the minaret of Al-Azhar Mosque, the double minaret constructed during Qansuh al-reign, Ghouri's closely resembling the form of human hands held up for dua. Similarly, the Al-Hussein Mosque minaret, which is a cone-ended cylindrical minaret, is similar to a pencil or rocket, as if it were waiting for the sky to depart. Maybe what most reflects the urge to connect with the sky is the balconies that adorn mosques. Those in the Ahmed bin Tulun Mosque, which resemble paper dolls "arais," raising their hands in prayer and supplication to God, as well as the balconies of Sultan Hassan and "Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah," which represent decorative patterns symbolizing the Sky-Earth relation, are the most appropriate and most popular of these balconies.
The relationship between Sky and Earth continues to inspire artists until now; one of the most famous of these artworks is the work entitled Endless Column by the Roman artist Constantin Brancusi, since it is the best proof of the artist's passion for the bond between Sky and Earth. The artwork is a 30-meter-high column composed of 17 geometrical forms of similar angles, as if bearing and linking the Sky to us.
Today, we are experiencing an enormous number of enormous architectural buildings known as skyscrapers, in which nations strive to create the highest buildings; perhaps the most prominent is the Burj Khalifa in the United Arab Emirates with a height of about 828 meters and the Mekka Clock Tower in Saudi Arabia with a height of 601 meters (you may be interested to read the list of the tallest buildings in the world on Wikipedia). As time passes, we know that people are still trying to reach out to the sky and link it to the earth.