“... The immensity of Yahweh is also in mind when the temple gates are summoned to "lift up their heads" (Ps 24:7, 9), so that King Yahweh can enter in. In Ps 24:7, the temple gates are designated pthy 'wlm, "gates of eternity" [...] Because the psalm itself is very ancient, the term could hardly apply to the actual temple gates. Rather it might imply that the gates (of heaven), to which the temple gates give visible form, have been located at this place from time immemorial (as at Bethel). [...] In Egyptian temples, a sun flanked by hooded cobras or the winged sun mounted on the lintel (221-22) were often used to identify the temple gates as the gates of heaven. [...] In Egypt, the following formula was uttered at the daily opening of the naos: "The gates of heaven are opened." The pertinent chapter bears the heading: "Utterance upon revealing the countenance of the god." A variant reads: "Utterance upon mounting the stairs" (which lead up to the naos). When entering the naos, the officiant says: "I enter into heaven to behold N (name of the god)." The temple of Heliopolis is called "the heaven of Egypt"; the temple of Karnak is "heaven on earth"; that at Dendera is "the heaven of Hathor." [...] The temple, as the locus of the presence of God, is identical to heaven. ...”