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Wednesday, 24 November 2010

Elephants through the centuries

Constructed temples "elephants" in the origin of the worship of the goddess "Isis"In all the centuries, elephants have gained a special place in worship to the extent that a crowd of followers that worship were meeting to revive the story of the death and sent the god Osiris.The great temple was built during the third century BC was followed by the temples of Amenhotep and Orsnovis. The Temple of Hathor, it is the impact of last Ptolemaic and completed its construction before the year 116 BC by Iiorgits II. He added Btalmp other inscriptions to Philae, which is one of the masterpieces of the temple. From Egypt, the worship of the goddess Isis spread to Greece and Rome and in various parts of the empire, even when applied to Roman rule in Egypt's rulers tried to beauty the island has the Holy Emperor Augustus Caesar built a temple in the northern end of the elephants in the ninth century BC. The Tiberius and others have added edifices and inscriptions, was built as Claudius and Trajan and Hadrian and Diocletian new buildings on the island continued to work there until the fourth century AD.To control the intensity of the worship of Isis on the island of Philae led to the extension of such worship for many centuries in defiance of the decree of Emperor Theodosius I, issued in 391 AD and which impose the Christian religion throughout the empire of Romania. In 550 AD, under the rule of Justinian and Christianity arrived to the island of Philae and started a new page in its history. The population of New Christians in the island of Philae and turned pillared hall to be suitable for the practice of the new religion. Stones were taken from some of the effects of the construction of Christian churches on the island. The new village grew around the temple of Isis [2].When Islam came, considered a bastion of Philae, represented in one of the legendary story of the Thousand Nights and gained the name of Anas being named after a hero of the stories of these stories a thousand and one nights.