The yearly Abu Simbel event

From Egypt State Information Service:

Some 7,000 tourists and Egyptians witnessed Friday 22/2/2008 the phenomenon of the sun falling perpendicular on the face of Ramses II statue in Abu Simbel temple, south Egypt. Happening twice a year, the first rays of the rising sun reach 60 meters into the sacred inner sanctuary of the temple in Abu Simbel on February 22 and October 22 to illuminate the back wall of the innermost shrine and the statues of the gods seated there. For twenty-four minutes, the sun shines on the statues of Ramses II, Amon Ra (the sun god), and Ra-Harakhtye, god of the rising sun. Ptah, god of the netherworld and darkness, seated at the far left of the row of gods, remains dark on these occasions. The Abu Simbel temple was cut into rock in the 13th century B.C. by the famous pharaoh Ramses II in honor of himself and the triad Amon-Ra, Ptah and Ra-Harakhte, together with a smaller temple dedicated to Ramses' wife Nefertari and the goddess Hathor.

Below are the statues in question.

Amun image

Well u know my fascination for Egypt probably. Found this great image of the god Amun :)

Moving Luxor

An image of what i think is Luxor temple in Luxor Egypt. The camera was not held still obviously, giving this interesting effect.

Goddess images

These are from Luxor, Egypt as well. First one is the goddess Mut from the Luxor museum. Mut is known as consort of the god Amun. She has her own precinct in the temple of Karnak basically "next to" Luxor. The other one is from the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir-el-Bahri, Luxor on the other side of the Nile. This is a representation of the goddess Hathor (Hethert) in her chapel of the mentioned temple.

A line of Spynxes day and night

2 Images of a line of sphynxes in Luxor Egypt. First in dark and then as most see it, in daylight.

Sunrise at Karnak

Can one get more symbol? Sunrise at Karnak, Egypt. You look through the axis of the temple. The ramheaded sphinxes in the foreground. Combining towards Amun-Ra to which most of the complex is edicated.

Rays of light

This is Egypt. Abydos to be exact. This is taken inside the Temple of Seti I. Here sunbeams come in through the ceiling.

Seti I was the father of Ramesses II of which you find monuments and statues everywhere in Egypt. Ramesses reigned about 4 times longer than his father Seti. Both mummies can be found in the Egyptian museum in Cairo.

Casas Rosadas

I was looking at pictures from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and i had all forgotten it was pink! Una casa rosada! And what do we have in Buenos Aires? La Casa Rosada! Nice to put together in one post!

1. The Egyptian Museum
















2. La Casa Rosada