Egypt Initiation Pilgrimage 2023: Pyramids Temples Nile Cruise

20/10/2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13970951/dog-descends-Giza-pyramid-paraglider.html

A clip shows the pup racing down the side of the pyramid as he casually navigates the large chunks of limestone

02/06/2024

The excitement is still there each time I climb up to the King’s Chamber in Khufu (Great) Pyramid. Anti-gravity? Giants? How did they lift these massive blocks into place with such precision? Such technical accuracy that it couldn’t still be achieved today? The granite sarcophagus was no tomb - it was a vehicle for transformation. For connecting with Source and all that is. For the initiates it meant death and rebirth. The pyramids are giant generators. In my Egypt tours we have 3 hours(!) private time inside the King’s and Queen’s Chambers here. It’s out of this world. ❤️

01/06/2024

The enigmatic Sphinx lies guardian on the Giza Plateau… Host to the fabled Hall of Records? Did she once have a lion’s head on her lion’s body? Certainly for me, the current Pharaonic head seems oddly out of proportion. And how old is she? Certainly much older than we are led to believe. And what civilisation created her? There are entrances on the top of her head, at her rear left flank, on her back and elsewhere. The authorities as usual are staying schtum…

30/05/2024

Home! There is nowhere on the planet like Giza! Whenever I’m here I feel at home and so happy. This is the view from my B&B 😍😍 Highly recommend the Great Pyramid Inn - wonderful people, super clean, comfy beds, great aircon - and pyramid view rooms. The most amazing location…. ❤️❤️❤️

29/05/2024

Saladin’s Citadel en route to Giza from Cairo airport. A different route to normal as the Egyptian Govt is in the process of constructing a metro line from Cairo airport out to Giza. Amazing!

28/05/2024

The children in Egypt are adorable! ❤️

28/05/2024

South of the main precinct of Amun-Re at Karnak is the precinct of Mut. An entrance pylon leads to a narrow court. Another pylon opens into the inner core. This temple is famous for the black granite statues of Sekhmet that Amenhotep III placed there. Scholars believe he may have dedicated 700 of these statues. Most of which have been destroyed or sold off to international museums.
The precinct’s sacred lake encloses the temple on three sides. It was once clear, but is now completely filled with bulrushes.

27/05/2024

Queen Hatshepsut’s red chapel at Karnak is a beautiful place for meditation. The guards here just let you be - with a firm la shukran!
Located inside the Karnak Open Air Museum, it was originally constructed as a barque shrine during the reign of Hatshepsut. She was the fifth pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt and ruled from approximately 1479 to 1458 BCE.
The chapel here has been reconstructed with many of the original blocks.

26/05/2024

An unusual felucca sail to Banana Island on Karnak’s West Bank that involved a baby donkey, baby camel and baby crocodile!

25/05/2024

More from Khonsu Temple, Karnak, originally constructed by Ramesses III on the site of an earlier temple.

25/05/2024

More from Khonsu Temple, Karnak, originally constructed by Ramesses III on the site of an earlier temple. The circling birds in the vid appeared from nowhere and were the exact image of a vision I had a week before coming here. You’ve called in the birds he said…

24/05/2024

Karnak Temple of Khonsu: This wonderful guide showed me around. ‘Khonsu was the son of Amun and Mut and is a moon god depicted as a man with a falcon-head wearing a crescent moon headdress surmounted by the full lunar disc. Like Thoth, who was also a lunar deity, he is sometimes represented as a baboon. Khonsu was believed to have the ability to drive out evil spirits. His temple, within the precincts of Karnak, was built by Ramesses III it consists of a peristyle court which is bordered by a portico of twenty-eight columns.’

23/05/2024

When the heat gets too much at Karnak - 111F the other day! - I head for the lake and the air-conditioned cafeteria adjacent with its little cat family. Just sitting there imagining the activity at this sacred bathing site thousands of years ago is mesmerising. Karnak Temple Sacred Lake is the largest of its kind and was dug by Tuthmosis III (1473-1458 BC). It measures 393 feet (120m) by 252 feet (77m) and is lined with a stone wall and has stairways descending into the water - where wild dogs now come to drink.
The lake was used by the temple priests for ritual washing and ritual navigation. It was also home to the sacred geese of Amun and was a symbol of the primeval waters from which life arose in the ancient Egyptian’s idea of creation.

23/05/2024

There are many hidden away chapels and temples
to see at Karnak - the site is massive. A case in point is the magnificent Osiris Temple with its 7 doorways/gates. Ancient Egyptian mythology says that when the soul leaves the body it must pass through 7 gates to reach the afterlife. Osiris is the deity who receives the souls after they have passed through these gates. A very special place.