As we passed the side of Luxor Temple one evening, I was inspired by its vision of radiance and light, its pale golden columns of the Festival Hall of Amenhotep 111 glowed against the early evening deep blue sky, the floodlights seemed to increase the size of the columns almost helping them to touch the heavens,
and then I remembered an evening walk I had taken through the Temple with Hamde, who had worked in the temple for seventeen years, he told me of the ancient beliefs that the stones of the temple had a soul, and that when darkness falls the light of the stars illuminates them again, and they are filled with the luminous Ka’s of the Pharaohs, then like Nut the god of the sky who comes to meet her husband Geb the god of the earth each evening, the stars came down to earth to fill the ancient containers in the temple with incense and myrrh. The columns had a stream of light reflected through them, and Hamdes beautiful story seemed so real, I looked at the Columns and I felt the magic of the temple and I was so grateful to be alive and experience my emotions that had become so entwined with this ancient culture.
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