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Title: Africa of to-day
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Goodrich, Joseph King, 1876-1948
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Publisher: Chicago, A.C. McClurg & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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s col-umns support, at the height of sixty-three to sixty-six feet,a ceiling of ponderous flagstones. At New Years, onfete-days of the seasons, and on days set apart for divineor royal worship, the crowd of devotees had access tothis part of the building, in order that they might seethe procession of the gods or of the king. Before enteringinto the court, ablaze with sunshine and flooded withlight untempered by any kind of awning or screens,it must have been pleasant to linger in the freshnessand dimness of these high covered halls. But beyondthis court no human being would dare venture unlesshe were of divine race, either in his own right, by birth,or by initiation. Only the high priest and the kinghad access to the sanctuary, a central chamber, lowand massively constructed, with no other opening thanthe door. There was installed behind the bolted andsealed panels, in complete darkness almost, the statueof the god, placed in an ark or granite naos, waiting H >spi t/5 WCS H EPICBPI
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EGYPT: THE MYSTERIOUS LAND 87 for the celebrant who was to summon him to activityby force of secret rites.* There are some temples which have been but littledamaged by the weather, and because they were sunkin the living rock, so that they were not attractive asresidences for human beings, have suffered less thanmany others at the hand of man. At Deir-el-Bahrifthe underground part of the temple is practically unin-jured; as is also the large speos of Abu Simbel,) whichis lighted to its very depths by the rays of the risingsun, and whose entrance is guarded by four colossichiselled from the solid rock. Some of the superterrene temples, also, are in remark-ably good state of preservation. Those which wererepaired or entirely reconstructed by the Ptolemies andCaesars at Edfu (on the left bank of the Nile in latitude240 59/ N.), Philse (an island in the Nile sixty miles southof the last mentioned), Denderah (on the river, a hun-dred and thirty miles north of Philae) were built abouta thou

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