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  2. Temple of Edfu - Wikipedia

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    The Temple of Edfu is an Egyptian temple located on the west bank of the Nile in Edfu, Upper Egypt.The city was known in the Hellenistic period in Koine Greek as Ἀπόλλωνος πόλις and in Latin as Apollonopolis Magna, after the chief god Horus, who was identified as Apollo under the interpretatio graeca. [1]

  3. Horus Temple - Wikipedia

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    Horus Temple is a 6,150 ft elevation summit located in the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County of Arizona, Southwestern United States. This butte is situated as the central landform in a 3-series line of peaks southwest of the Shiva Temple (forested)-tableland prominence.

  4. Edfu - Wikipedia

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    The smaller temple, sometimes, but improperly, called a Typhonium, is apparently an appendage of the former, and its sculptures represent the birth and education of the youthful deity, Horus, whose parents Noum, or Kneph and Athor, were worshipped in the larger edifice. The principal temple is dedicated to Noum, whose symbol is the disc of the ...

  5. Temple of Kom Ombo - Wikipedia

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    Meanwhile, the northern part of the temple was dedicated to the falcon god Haroeris ("Horus the Elder"), along "with Tasenetnofret (the Good Sister, a special form of Hathor or Tefnet/Tefnut [3]) and Panebtawy (Lord of the Two Lands)". [2] The temple is atypical because everything is perfectly symmetrical along the main axis.

  6. Edfu-Project - Wikipedia

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    The main entrance of Edfu Temple showing the first pylon. In 1986, Professor Dr. Dieter Kurth of Hamburg University initiated a long-term project that is devoted to a complete translation of the hieroglyphic inscriptions of the Temple of Edfu [2] [3] in Upper Egypt (Temple of Horus) that meets the requirement of both linguistics and literary studies.

  7. Hathor - Wikipedia

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    The endpoint of the journey was the Temple of Horus at Edfu, where the Hathor statue from Dendera met that of Horus of Edfu and the two were placed together. [145] On one day of the festival, these images were carried out to a shrine where primordial deities such as the sun god and the Ennead were said to be buried.

  8. Horus - Wikipedia

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    The Festival of Victory (Egyptian: Heb Nekhtet) was an annual Egyptian festival dedicated to the god Horus. The Festival of Victory was celebrated at the Temple of Horus at Edfu, and took place during the second month of the Season of the Emergence (or the sixth month of the Egyptian calendar).

  9. Mammisi - Wikipedia

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    A mammisi (mamisi) is an ancient Egyptian small chapel attached to a larger temple (usually in front of the pylons [1]), built from the Late Period, [2] [3] and associated with the nativity of a god. [1] The word is derived from Coptic – the last phase of the ancient Egyptian language – meaning "birth place".