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Saturday, 27 November 2010

The rest of the design of the temple

Small courtyard:Leads to the door on the eastern side of the room past and there on the north side of the courtyard limited reach them by ladder consisting of six grades and the columns with capitals vase and the landscape of the kings and Mlikat worship of King Ptolemy III and his wife, Arsinoe and see the roof of the courtyard landscape Anhorat seven bends brought luck and happiness, or bad luck on the birth of children). And on the western side of the hall there are limited to machine Maine god of fertility and birth control).


The most holy things:Is a large hall independent of the others were not allowed to venture into the high priest or king and was also lit by small openings in the roof and in the middle of the altar of low were placed above the compound sacred to Horus, and in the north side there is the sarcophagus made of granite, was named after King Nqttbo first was composed statue of the falcon, the holy master of Edfu and takes Bakds Holies ten rooms was performed in various rituals or ritual tools to save them.
Vestibule:There are external vestibule or corridor is going around the temple and about the internal structure of the internal walls have been charged scenes and Nqoucheh different views of the most important myth of the winged sun and anniversary rituals.

Measure of the Nile:Perhaps one of the milestones in the temple of Edfu, Nile, where we find a scale in the eastern corridor of the temple him supplements to the outside walls of the temple leads to a scale where the Nile was used in determining the ground rent to the public in accordance with the amount of flood water.

House of the birth of God:Because the creation of this Almamesy to Ptolemy VIII and IX is a small temple shrine next to the temple, but notes that Mamesy Temple of Edfu, a layout similar to the temples of Greek as well as columns surrounded by a feature of the architecture in the Ptolemaic period does not exist in Egyptian architecture and was a rectangular building consists of the front hall with two rooms and a ladder on the right and a large compartment flanked by the gallery of tycoons with different crowns and tycoons on the image of the goddess Hathor, a hit on the tambourine or playing on Alzhnik (guitar) and suckling Horus.

Holiday visit Hathor:Systems Egyptians annual visit carried out by Hathor to the headquarters of her husband to Edfu has become is the visit an official holiday since the days of Tuthmosis III, they called the meeting good and they celebrate a big ceremony and out of the priest of Edfu, a statue of Horus they encounter their fellow priests from the Dendera After thirteen days back priests Dandara statue of Hathor to the temple has been carved scenery that holy matrimony on the northern walls of the courtyard and that was the first festival being twice a year