With the lingering thoughts of the ages past, when I entered the temple, I was greeted by eight huge pillars depicting the Ramses in Osirid position which is basically a typical posture of god Osiris (the god of the Underworld) with hands crossed over the chest and the entire body wrapped like a mummy. Now again here Ramses went out of the way and constructed the temple in a very different way temples used to be built in Egypt. Normally till then the Egyptian temples always followed a structure of pylon, hypostyle hall and a courtyard. These basic 3 elements are repeated n number of times before the inner sanctum wherein the deity resides. At Abu Simbel, we do not have the above pattern. It is a very small temple, with just two chambers before the
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