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My photos of the goddess Isis Nursing Horus (Egypt, 664-332 BC), Nubia Museum in Aswan, Egypt. IYKYN.

Isis (or Eset) was from Lower Egypt and she represented motherhood, love, magic, medicine, peace and children. She is feeding her son Horus. Here she is wearing a headdress of 2 cow horns with the solar disc and a cobra in the middle. She is also depicted wearing a throne on her head, her name means "seat". Her husband Osiris was also her brother.

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My photos inside the Crododile Museum right beside the Temple of Kom Ombo in Aswan, Egypt.

What do you see in a crocodile museum?

"The Crocodile Museum is located next to the Kom Ombo temple, north of Aswan. This museum has highlighted the crocodile-headed god Sobek since it was opened in 2012. Its main exhibition hall displays the mummified mummies of Nile crocodiles. The longest crocodile was 4.30 m, while the smallest was 2 m.

In addition to a collection of crocodile fetuses, eyes, and golden and ivory teeth of mummified crocodiles. The museum also shows statues of different sizes of the god Sobek and a tomb model that simulates what was discovered in the Shutb cemetery. It shows the burial methods and the pottery coffins that contained this sacred animal's mummy." --- Ministry of Tourism & Antiquities, Egypt.

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My photos at the Temple of Kom Ombo in Aswan, Egypt. So far, this temple has the most tourists out of all the temples we have visited. It was crowded!

"The Temple of Kom Ombo is an unusual double temple in the town of Kom Ombo in Aswan Governorate, Upper Egypt. It was constructed during the Ptolemaic dynasty, 180–47 BC. Some additions to it were later made during the Roman period.

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. Meanwhile, the northern part of the temple was dedicated to the falcon god Haroeris ("Horus the Elder"), along "with Tasenetnofret (the Good Sister, a special form of Hathor or Tefnet/Tefnut) and Panebtawy (Lord of the Two Lands)". The temple is atypical because everything is perfectly symmetrical along the main axis." --- Wikipedia

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My photos of the sanctuary inside the Temple of Edfu / Temple of Horus was the most sacred and important portion of the temple. It contained the sacred barks of Horus and Hathor, used in processions, as well as the permanent shrine for the sacred image of the god which was likely a wooden falcon statue. The shrine, made of black granite, is located at the rear of the sanctuary and is one of the few remnants of an older temple of Horus. The shrine was made by Nectanebo II (360-343 BCE), around a hundred year before the beginning of the construction of the current temple of Horus. The door frame of the sanctuary is inscribed with hymns which were sung in the morning before opening the bronze doors of the sanctuary to wake up Horus and the other deities sleeping in their chapels.


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