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Day 8
Day 8
We were lucky to be a small group of very likeable characters.
From left: Corinne, Noël, Patricia, Jacqueline, Marie, Catherine, Wael (our Muslim guide) and Moi.
We visited the Temple of Khnoum at Esna in the morning in the morning. Khnoum is the potter god who created humanity. Catherine became obsessed with the hands and voice of our guide, Wael. He certainly had interesting ideas about the political situation in the contemporary Middle East.
Wael awarded points according to the quality of the questions we asked - we almost all ended the week with a negative score!
In the afternoon we cruised north on the boat, and saw a Son et Lumiere at Karnak in the evening.
Day 9
Day 9
Today we joined another caravan of 50 or so coaches to travel to Dendera, a temple dedicated to the goddess Hathor and dating from the Greek era.
In this photo we can see part of the ceiling of the hypostyle hall. It's unconventional to represent heads or faces on in the bas reliefs so to 'get around' this convention this face is a sculpture in a niche rather than a bas relief.
In the corner of the ceiling you can see the feet of Nut, the goddess of the sky. Her body curves around the ceiling and her head and arms are at the other side of the hall. Every evening Nut swallows the sun and every morning she gives birth to it again.
Always on the lookout for unusual hieroglyphs, I spotted these in one of the temples. It's interesting to compare the tools of ancient Egypt to their modern versions - I'm referring to the set square/plumb line device of course.
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