 Welcome back everyone. I'd like to begin by briefly talking about how my blog began for those who are new visitors to my site. My earliest recollection of my facination of Egypt and its history goes back to my school days when we did a school project where I first learnt about the Great Pyramids and the world of the Pharaohs. Little did I know that some years later... definately to many to mention, that I would be blessed to visit this wonderous and mystical country.  In 2007 I met and began studying Isis Lotus Healing with Elisabeth Jensen, Founder of the Isis Mystery School in Adelaide South Australia www.isismysteryschool.com and later that year I went on my first Sacred Journey with her and seventeen other people. We visited some amazing places and of course took lots of photo's. On my return my interest in Egypt's ancient history and its people past and present, just grew and grew.  In 2009 I went on my second Sacred Journey to Egypt with Elisabeth and on my return undertook the Isis Lotus Healing Teacher's Course - read more at isisblessings.com  We were very lucky to have our own Egyptologist Dr Morad who travelled with us throughout our tour. He was very happy for me to record his stories and upon my return I transcribed them. I began my blog to allow others to read and learn more about this incrediable country and its Ancient Mythology (see previous blogs) Dr Morhad will once again share his knowledge beginning with the city of Aswan. The name of the city in Ancient times was called the ivory market and to pronounce it by the Egyptians language in this time was Swan...then it became Aswan now a days. But the original name is Swan. And that island...we are going to...it was a big market because they were coming by boats...bringing all these ivory...and not only ivory but ivory was the famous thing. They were bringing lepard skins and wood for arrows and arrow bows and all the stuff...was brought there.  Then the island was the island of the market of the ivory. Then it was called Elephantine Island accordingly. But this island before being a market it was a place of very famous Ancient God in the Egyptian mythology.  That God was Khnom...and Khnom in Egyptian mythology is the one who makes the mankind from the clay...you remember that at the beginning of the creation by his hands he took the clay....he makes the statue of the man on a potter wheel and the creation of the human appears.And he is one of the big Gods in the Egyptian mythology and he was known in this area since the history of Eygpt was known. And Isis was known as well in the same area. Then two big temples were here...one for Khnom and one for Isis. Even sometimes we found problems between the priests about the properties ...no those are ours....no they belong to us and those kind of problems... and sometimes they fight with each other till a contract was signed between them in front of the Gods and written on a island on a big rock of granite.  When they build the Temple of Isis they left it as it was...in the wall is a big piece of granite...it doesn't match with the design but this is the old contract about the properties. Of course every temple from now on we are going to visit...belong to three Gods...Father..Mother and son...always like that...we call it the Triad which is the Trinity in English...then every temple must have Father, Mother and son. And sometimes one temple have a chapel for the wife.. a chapel for the son and a big one for the owner of the temple as a God. All three rooms in the back...a big room for the owner of the temple and husband and son... if she is a female or wife and son if he is a married God like that. This is something that you have to know every temple must have this Triad...this family...Father, Mother and son. Here the temple like any temple I mentioned to you before was rebuilt and rennovated and rebuilt and rennovated through the history. It never continued the same building in more than three thousand years but it was rebuilt several times till the Greek time. When the Greek came our official memory...the Greek here in 300 BC...the Greek actually brought their own religion and they did not understand the Egyptian religion in the beginning.  People...the Egyptians are worshipping animals...they have cows and they have rams because Khnom is a ram...by the way ram headed human...body...then you'll find the Egyptian Gods are human bodies and different animals head and they were not animals....they were connected to these animals but they were not animals in their belief.The Greek thought they are animals and they closed the temples and those people who were shipping animals all over the temples....when they did so they lost Egypt. The Egyptians never obeyed them or listened to them. Then one called Bartholomew the second who was the second Greek King of Egypt...advise to reopen the temples and he did...when he reopened the temples all the Egyptians obeyed them.. and then they respected the Egyptian beliefs...even though they did not believe in it and in this case even they encourage the priests to continue because by this way...they could control the whole people who are big believers. Then in the Greek time these temples were funded or allowed to be funded under the Greek orders and gifts and everything like that. Then we'll go there we see the remains of this temple from the Old Kingdom...we'll see the remains specifically in the Greek time and we'll see the remains in the New Kingdom time and different Kings. This means this place was Holly all these three thousand years and many more coming here and there. By the way that King Bartholomew...when he did reopen the temples the Egyptian's priests thanked him because he is Greek...they couldn't understand the language...then they wrote him a thanking letter on a big stone...to thank him in Greek. They wrote it in Greek language but their own language is in hieroglyphics and it was written in hieroglyphics and Greek... this is what we call a presenter stone...a stone which was used to decipher the language. Because of that thanking letter this King in particular ...thanking him in Greek and Egyptian... then we know the this language... Greek is known. Egyptian wasn't known... then one French archaeologist could read the Greek and said this must be the transcription of that and this was the beginning of deciphering the language. The big stone is kept in the British Museum now and is called the Rosetta Stone. Coming soon ....we go inside the temples with Dr Morad |
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