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Title: Egypt and its monuments
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Hichens, Robert Smythe, 1864-1950
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Publisher: New York, Century Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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were theTheban triad to whom the holy buildings of Thebes onthe two banks of the Nile were dedicated; and thistemple of Luxor, the House of Amun in the SouthernApt, was built fifteen hundred years before Christ byAmenhotep III. Rameses II, that vehement builder,added to it immensely. One walks among his traceswhen one walks in Luxor. And here, as at Denderah,Christians have let loose the fury that should have hadno place in their religion. Churches for their worshipthey made in different parts of the temple, and whenthey were not praying, they broke in pieces statues,defaced bas-reliefs, and smashed up shrines with avigor quite as great as that displayed in preservation byChristians of to-day. Now time has called a truce.Safe are the statues that are left. And day by day twogreat religions, almost as if in happy brotherly love,send forth their summons by the temple walls. Andjust beyond those walls, upon the hill, there is a Copticchurch. Peace reigns in happy Luxor. The lion lies 96
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LUXOR down with the Iamb, and the child, if it will, mayharmlessly put its hand into the cockatrices den. Perhaps because it is so surrounded, so haunted bylife and familiar things, because the pigeons fly aboutit, the buffalo stares into it, the goats stir up the dustbeside its columns, the twittering voices of womenmake a music near its courts, many people pay littleheed to this great temple, gain but a small impressionfrom it. It decorates the bank of the Nile. You can seeit from the dahabiyehs. For many that is enough.Yet the temple is a noble one, and, for me, it gains adefinite attraction all its own from the busy life aboutit, the cheerful hum and stir. And if you want fullyto realize its dignity, you can always visit it by night.Then the cries from the village are hushed. Thehouses show no lights. Only the voices from the Nilesteal up to the obelisk of Rameses, to the pylon fromwhich the flags of Thebes once flew on festal days, tothe shrine of Alexander the Great, with its vu

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