Abu Simbel

Fotoschlumpfs Abenteuerreisen geht heute nach Abu Simbel

On the west bank of Lake Nasser is one of the most beautiful UNESCO World  Heritage Sites. The rock temple of Abu Simbel. The great Ramses II had the temple  during the 19th Dynasty built some 1,300 years before the present era. Photo Smurf  Adventure has visited the temple in its Nile cruise in September 2011. From Aswan  by bus went of into the distant about 240 Abu Simbel. The descent was in the middle of the night at 2:30. When the bus arrived in Abu Simbel, the sun had just risen. The  view also on the Lake Nasser was really nice and peaceful.  The temple of Ramses the Great and his wife Neferitit is considered imposing and  magnificent. The images on this page do unfortunately a distorted impression again,  because the right size ratio, but especially the effect of this plant in the original  acts quite differently. At the time of the great pharaoh was the south side of the Empire, which was then  in his prime at this point. The Egyptian empire existed almost 3,000 years, ie longer  than the time elapsed from the founding of the Roman Empire until today. How  great but also awesome it must have been to start up the Nile from Sudan and then  coming to see these statues as a kind of guards at the second cataract of the Nile  for the old North African cultures.  In the 60s of the 20th century, Nasser was flooded by the dam at Aswan. Almost a  nice invaluable heritage of mankind would have been lost here. At least to prevent  the loss of this system, it was quickly transferred faithfully to its present location,  the shift was made at about 64 meters. Originally the temple of Abu Simbel was on  the west side of the Nile. The Swiss researchers Egypt Johann Ludwig Burckhardt discovered the temple on 22  March 1813, the almost completely covered by the sands of centuries temple  complex. This information he gave in Cairo to the Italian Belzoni on. This  immediately traveled to the temple of Abu Simbel. On Wikipedia the following quote  from him is to find:   "Our first impression is that it obviously was a fairly large building; our  astonishment grew when we discovered that it was an extraordinarily rich sanctuary, decorated with bas-reliefs, paintings and colossal statues of great beauty. " The temple has a fascinating uniqueness that has been obtained fortunately after  the transfer of the temple. In the inner sanctum of the temple there is the sun  miracle of Abu Simbel. Similar to Stonehenge or the solar observatory of Goseck the  sunlight in two days is a unique spectacle of the year. While in Northern Europe, the  sunny days were particularly appreciated in the spring and the beginning of winter,  the sun fell spectacle in Abu Simbel on 21 February (Peret) and 21 October, the  Achet tag. But what makes the sun miracle of Abu Simbel so special?  Photo Smurf Adventure explains it: In most sacred room of the temple of Abu Simbel four seated figures are placed.  This is around the sun Harachte of Heliopolis. Harachte is the god of light and sits to  the right of Ramses, the greatest of all the pharaohs. The right of the king has taken  place Amun-Re. Amun-Re is the omnipresent sun god and putative precursor of  today's religions in the Middle East, Europe and America. Right of Amun-Re sitting  Ptah. This deity of the Egyptian mythology is again the earth god. Connected to the  realm of the dead.  On Achet and the sun's rays Peret now come for a period of about 20 minutes to the  end wall in the center of the Holy Temple, the place where the three gods and  godlike Ramses have found their place. For a short period of time you will erhell by  the rays of the sun - with the exception of Ptah, whose left shoulder is illuminated  for a moment. However, Ramses II is in the center of the light frames the major  deities of the ancient Egyptian mythology. Is it possible to occupy a larger place in  history? The sun miracle of Abu Simbel takes place both at sunrise. Meanwhile, this festival  is celebrated like a funfair. According to reports coming in every tens of thousands  of people to the temple to witness this miracle of the sun of Abu Simbel. Egypt has so many cultural treasures. Much has been irretrievably lost over the  millennia. Some things were stolen, destroyed many in delusion. The still ongoing  iconoclasm of Christians and Muslims has been destroyed immeasurably great works  of art and monuments of human culture. We can only hope that the temples,  paintings and sculptures in Egypt but also in Jordan and Israel these days when so  very many works in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Mali are destroyed, will survive.