Temple of Stabbing | Luxor/Aswan 3

On Wednesday, we traveled a lot. We took two stops in between Luxor and Aswan.

Edfu Temple

We got off the boat, and took a horse and carriage to the Edfu Temple.

Horse booty

Edfu, means stabbing. I went to the stabbing temple. The idea behind it is there was Horace, the son of Isis and Osirus. Horace's uncle, Set, killed Osirus, his father. The temple of Edfu is the place where Horace could get his revenge on his uncle. (Hamlet, anyone?) Horace couldn't kill Set exactly because then he'd be evil, so he stabbed him, but only enough to drag him to the judgement. They found him guilty of killing Osirus, and killed him. The End.

Edfu Temple, the stabbing temple.

Horace lived in one temple/palace and his wife lived in another one. Once(?) a year, they would get together for 21(?) days and there would be a festival. This is a picture of the boats Horace used to get his wife and bring her to his temple.

I don't remember what this is, but it looks cool.

The Stabbing scene.

Cute Corie with cute hieroglyphs.

Story time: Ancient Egyptians couldn't touch statues f the gods or they would die, so they used boards like this to carry them around. Everyone and their mother was trying to get a picture of this deity board. All I remember thinking is: this better be the coolest piece of wood I've ever seen. I mean, it's a pretty awesome piece of wood, even though it's a crappy picture.

And that was the Edfu Temple!


Temple that I can't remember the name of but it was cool

After we got back to the boat on the horse and carriage, we set sail once again. Then we docked at another place that exists. We then walked to another temple. The temple was for Horace and Set. People didn't really like Set, so they built a temple for both and when they brought sacrifices, it would be split between them, even if you only brought it for Horace.

A somewhat blurry picture of a nameless temple.

This was a well that they used to measure the level of the Nile. The higher the water level, the higher the taxes were.

If you can see it, this is the Ancient Egyptian Calendar. It is very similar to ours.

I thought this was cool looking.

This temple had a crocodile museum. These are old, mummified crocodiles.

These are statues they made for the crocodile god, Set.

After this, we continued on our way to Aswan!


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Corie.