This temple is actually not one alone, but the largest temple complex in all of Egypt encompassing 55 acres. You see here one of the entranceways flanked by an avenue of ram-headed sphinxes and the bathing pool of Hatshepsut, which was filled and emptied daily with fresh water from the Nile. There was a also a statue of a scarab beetle next to it that she used to circumnabulate 10 times after bathing to cleanse her heart as her body had just been cleansed. Grace and I
didn't bathe, but we did walk around the statue 10 times in hopes that our hearts might be purer.
This temple is actually not one alone, but the largest temple complex in all of Egypt encompassing 55 acres. You see here one of the entranceways flanked by an avenue of ram-headed sphinxes and the bathing pool of Hatshepsut, which was filled and emptied daily with fresh water from the Nile. There was a also a statue of a scarab beetle next to it that she used to circumnabulate 10 times after bathing to cleanse her heart as her body had just been cleansed. Grace and I
didn't bathe, but we did walk around the statue 10 times in hopes that our hearts might be purer.
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