EGYPT: Kom Ombo Temple
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2019
- The Temple of Kom Ombo is an unusual double temple in the town of Kom Ombo, along the river Nile, in Aswan Governorate, Upper Egypt. The building is unique because its 'double' design meant that there were courts, halls, sanctuaries and rooms duplicated for two sets of gods.
The southern half of the temple was dedicated to the crocodile god Sobek, god of fertility and creator of the world with Hathor and Khonsu.
The northern part of the temple was dedicated to the falcon god Haroeris ("Horus the Elder").
It was constructed during the Ptolemaic dynasty, 180-47 BC. Some additions to it were later made during the Roman period. The temple is atypical because everything is perfectly symmetrical along the main axis.
Much of the temple has been destroyed by the Nile, earthquakes, and later builders who used its stones for other projects.
Visitors can observe a non-operational nilometer, a structure used by the ancient Egyptians to measure the water level of the river in order to predict floods. The nilometer features a channel leading from the riverbank to a well. However, water now no longer reaches the well.
The Crocodile Museum, near the Kom Ombo Temple, displays 22 mummified crocodiles of various sizes to have been discovered in the vicinity. It is Egypt's first museum devoted exclusively to crocodiles, inaugurated on Januari 31, 2012.
March 14, 2019
Impression of the original temple:
jeanclaudegolvin.com/en/kom-ombo
Amazing place 💛💛
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It is of Greco-Roman structure, dating back to the year 119 BC when Ptolemy VI built it out of limestone.
The temple was mainly dedicated to the god Sobek, the crocodile god, together with his wife.
seems 1 wk isn't enough to go over these majestic structures of every corners of Egypt....
Perhaps the crocodiles which we have seen there in an ancient building have been taken to a museum
I remember the mummified crocodiles piled up behind an iron gate, it was 1985, that year the Egyptian pound was equal to 1 American $ which rate was equal to 70 Belgian Frank. To enter the pyramids was 3 Egyptian pound equal to 210 Belgian Frank in those days, I refused to pay so much and enjoyed the pyramids from outside. I seemed to me that the mummified crocodiles were not much cared for.
JoJo reference
The bird serves as an image of the soul, the falcon shows the time of the rebirth of the soul of Osiris, in these birds the time of the birth of chicks coincides with the time of the new birth of the soul of Osiris.
A bird is born from an egg and a soul is born from an egg, all animals that are born from an egg are used in the symbolism of rebirth.
The image of a crocodile shows that conception was performed without the use of a sexual organ, in crocodiles the sexual organ is not visible as if it does not exist, and conception occurs very quickly.