| The sun passes over the face of Ramses |
Of the most important aspects that characterize the Abu Simbel temple from other temples of the ancient Egyptians enter the sun in the early morning to place inside the so-called "Holy of Holies" and access to the four statues, Vtdi this place deep in the rock and away from the entrance at about sixty meters. !!
In the fifth hour and fifty-three minutes on October 22 of each year sneaks sun beam down over the face of King Ramses flood of light fills the facial features Pharaoh inside his room in the Holy of Holies in the heart of the temple, and then multiplies Sunbeam quickly forming a beam of light shining faces of the four statues inside the Holy of Holies. It is worth mentioning that the incidence of the sun passes over Ramses statue was happening on October 21 and February 21, 1964 before, except that after the transfer of Abu Simbel temple after the cut to save him from drowning under the High Dam Lake water at the beginning of the sixties from the old location, which were carved inside the mountain to its current location, has become a phenomenon repeated on October 22 and February 22, so as to change the latitude and longitude after the transfer of the temple of 120 meters to the west and at altitudes of 60 meters, where the sun enters from the front of the temple to go a distance of 200 meters to reach the Holy of Holies to light up three statues of the four in the inside, and they Statue Re-Hor sister of the sun god, and the statue of Ramses II, who is equal with God, and the statue of Amun good god in that era, and the statue is the fourth of the god Ptah, Lord of Memphis and patron of art and artists and the god of the underworld does not get to the sun, because it has to be to remain in the darkness like condition in the underworld and then cut off the sun another 60 meters rays perpendicular to King Ramses II and the statue of Amun-Re statue of the god of Thebes, maker of a framework around the statues 355 cm long and the width of 185 cm. astronomical explanation for the phenomenon that offers the ancient Egyptians in Science Astronomy .. confirms the full benefit of public manifestation in their lives and they knew the sunrise and sunset and the timing and location and the length of the solar year properties.
Vtaamd sun on the Abu Simbel temple twice a year based on the scientific fact discovered by the ancient Egyptians is that the sunrise perfectly East Point and sunset perfectly West Point on atheist and the twentieth of March, and then almost sunrise point changes by a quarter degrees every day to the north, where up at sunrise to a point away by 23 degrees and 27 minutes north east in the twenty-second of June. The sun returns again to rises in the east point in exactly the same moves toward the north rate to reach quite the Middle point in the atheist and the twentieth of September, and then changed almost sunrise at a rate of a quarter degree point to the south to become just 23 degrees and 27 minutes south east in the Twenty-second of the month of December of each year and then come back at the same rate to reach quite the Middle point in atheist and the twentieth of March. was based on the ancient Egyptians in their discovery to that the sun passes on each point during sunrise and sunset twice each year, and that the distance of time between them vary depending on after every point completely East Point. and that the sun passes over the face of Ramses II twice a year, on the twenty-second of October, and the twenty-second of the month February, came as a result of choosing the ancient Egyptians point in the path of the sun away from the points of course with a time of four months to comply with on October 22 and February 22 of each year and then they built the temple so that the direction of the path that the intervention of which the sun on the face of Ramses II from the east from the narrow opening. And that the ancient Egyptians made this narrow aperture so that if the sun entered the day fell on the statue's face it the next day deviate small deviation of a quarter of the degree of radiation and this fall the next day on the wall of the hole does not fall on the face of the statue.  Finder phenomenon discovered this phenomenon in 1874 where she explored Amelia Eduarz and her team to monitor this phenomenon and recorded in her book, published in 1899 (thousand miles above the Nile), which states: become statues of the Holy of Holies high-impact and surrounded by beautiful aura of prestige and dignity at sunrise the sun and the fall of its rays on them, and went on saying that any viewer if you do not watch the sun fall this entertains doubt strong impact accurately calculated by astronomy and Ancient Egyptian mathematics, where as accurately and directed towards a certain angle so that the fall of these rays on the faces of the four statues. |
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