Here is a picture that you see many variations of it is the Pharaoh making offerings to Hathor the cow goddess. The Egyptians were very serious about their duties to the gods and this is seen everywhere in the temples, the gods are everywhere and generally you don't have to look far to see offerings being made.
All about the small island there are miniature temples that were relocated to this island along with the main Philae temple. Well you can't say the Egyptians didn't think big!
If you look closely you can see a cross at the top of the ledge built into the wall and there is also one on the altar. Once Christianity was introduced to Egypt the early Christian's saw no reason why they couldn't use what they already had, so a lot of temples were used as churches. This caused problems as the Egyptians would get confused as they had worshiped many gods for thousands of years but now there was only one, to fix this they defaced the carvings by chiseling out the features and body parts of the figures in the carvings. It is strange as it is only the people that they marked nothing else.
Yes, yes, I'm getting there Ange
And this is looking to one of the neighbouring islands, to you left is where we docked after approaching the island from behind me.
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