Philae in Aswan

After the establishment of the Aswan Dam, the old and the result of the high water tank with water, which are construction of the dam, the flood waters of the Nile island of "elephants" and temples for a period of 6 months each year. In the sixties of the 20 th century, with the near completion of the construction of the High Dam, the worsening of the situation and became the island and threatened by the effects of sinking completely and forever. In the process of saving a great and historic carried out by UNESCO was dismantled temple complex "Isis" Grand Island "elephants" (Temple of the "elephants"), and moved and rebuilt on the island of river nearby called the island "Ogelka" has been prepared so as to be similar to the island of "Isis" Holy ( Island "elephants") as possible.


This is because the oldest parts of the temple, "elephants" to the fourth century BC, but most parts of the existing was built by the Ptolemaic and Roman periods that lasted until the third century AD (ie after birth). The early Christians of the touches on the island and by transferring the hall of the main pillars of the temple to a small church, also built two churches at the site, and happened in their time a distortion of some of the inscriptions of the temple of idolatry, and they added themselves some of the inscriptions which Christianity had not been delivered is the other of distortion and factors of time in the centuries following.
 

He built the Temple, "elephants" in the original to the worship of the goddess "Isis", where they believe they found the heart of her husband "Osiris" (after he was killed and cut his brother's evil "six") and that on the island of "elephants", making the island so holy .. (See also: cultural and intellectual life and scientific in Pharaonic Egypt: The Legend of Isis and Osiris .. legend fictional shows us many of the beliefs of ancient Egyptians.) Today, up boats visitors to the island "Oglica", where the temple now, and leave them at the base of the hall "Nectanebo" , the oldest parts of the "elephants". And passes northbound courtyard outside the temple, which is bounded on both sides of the rows of columns, even up to the entrance of the temple, "Isis," where there are towers, the first edifice. In the central courtyard of the Temple "Isis" no "Almamesy" or "home birth", which is dedicated to the god "Horus", and was conducted old ritual "Almamesy" to mark the birth of the god, the Kings had been keen to participate in this ritual emphasis on belonging to a strain of the god "Horus ".


And leads the second edifice of the temple to the vestibule and the inner sanctum of the sacred "of Isis." And there is peace aspect Bank climb to the rooms, "Osiris," which rooms are decorated with scenes of Nadben, and inscriptions to "Isis" and her husband and son and the other gods, with - as usual - inscriptions of the kings of the Ptolemies and Romans, who built or contributed to the building and decorating the temple.

And on the northern side of the island "Oglica" There is temple "Aozhustos" The Gate "Diocletian", as there are eastern edifice Second Temple delightfully "of Hathor," decorated with carvings of musicians, and the south of that the visitor finds booth "Trajan" and inscriptions completed this kiosk depicting Emperor "Trajan", which provides advances to "Isis" and "Osiris" and "Horus".

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