Luxor Temple

Luxor Temple:

The modern city of Luxor located in Egypt, lays

beautifully along side the Nile. The name Luxor

is our modern version of a much older name.

Through the centuries the city have had many

names, but even thou the name has changed, its

ancient meaning has stayed intact- namely meaning

city of Light.

There are many temples in Egypt, but not one is

alike. The Luxor temple is a rather odd name for

the temple, if we go a couple of hundred of years

back in time, it would be referred to as the

Theban temple.

The beautiful city grew up around the temple,

hereby making the temple the center point of this

city.

The Luxor temple is actually several buildings (

temples) that have been connected to one big

temple, much like we find at Karnak. Luxor temple

is dedicated to three ancient gods, where the

foremost god is Amun.

As you stand at the temples entrances, you will

defiantly be taken by the two great Ramesses II

statues. The great pharaoh Ramesses II lived (

1279-1212 B.C) and he as his father ruled for a

very long time. He surpassed 11 of his sons,

hereby making the 12.th son the next pharaoh, his

son was around 60 years of age when he came to

rule. Ramesses II had over a hundred sons, and on

the walls of the Luxor temple, you can see many

of these sons.

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This was a festival temple, where people gathered

to celebrate the passing of one year and the

coming of a new year.

There are many things about this temple which are

rarely spoken of one of these fascinating things

is about the temples construction and its walls.

In the most holy rooms, which are the chambers

located at the back of the temple, you will find

odd spots everywhere, but only in there.

These spots are from Bat's, which fly around at

night. There is something magical about these

inner chambers, they are build in such a manner

that the Bat's inner radar system (which it uses,

because the Bat is born blind), does not work and

so they crash into the walls. The walls material

does that the radar are reflected and spins off

towards another wall (-pretty much like a bullet

inside a bulletproof room).

Recourses;

A Magical Guide to Luxor temple ISBN: 87-991527-3-

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