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Showing respect

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 15:25:08 +0000

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Temple of Abu Simbel
Egypt

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A gift of lotus flowers

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 15:26:10 +0000

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Temple of Abu Simbel
Egypt

Sunday Challenge - Inspired by a book.

I am currently reading the book, Empress of the Nile, a biography of Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, a French Egyptologist who battled with chauvinism throughout her career. She helped save the treasures of the Louvre during the Nazi invasion and raised awareness and funds to save the temples along the Nile that would otherwise have been lost due to the building of Aswan Dam.

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Pharaoh Ramesses II

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 15:25:05 +0000

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Temple of Abu Simbel
Egypt

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The Temple of Abu Simbel

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 15:25:01 +0000

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Temple of Abu Simbel
Egypt

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Churches and Temples

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 18:32:23 +0000

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Roman Forum East

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Looking down on early civilization

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 18:32:52 +0000

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View from the Palantine Hill - Rome

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Temple of Antoninus and Faustina

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 03:05:18 +0000

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Roman Forum East - Temple of Antoninus and Faustina

"The temple was begun in 141 AD by the Emperor Antoninus Pius and was initially dedicated to his deceased and deified wife, Faustina the Elder. When Antoninus Pius was deified after his death in 161 AD, the temple was re-dedicated jointly to Antoninus and Faustina at the instigation of his successor, Marcus Aurelius.

The building stands on a high platform of large peperino blocks. The later of two dedicatory inscriptions says, "Divo Antonino et Divae Faustinae Ex S.C." meaning, “To the divine Antoninus and to the divine Faustina by decree of the Senate.”

The ten monolithic Corinthian columns of its pronaos are 17 metres (56 ft)=tall. The rich bas-reliefs of the frieze under the cornice, of garlanded griffons and candelabri, were often copied from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Antoninus_and_Faustina

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The Oculus (Explored)

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:35:51 +0000

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Rome - The Pantheon

Pantheon, Rome

"The Pantheon . . . is a building in Rome, Italy, on the site of an earlier building commissioned by Marcus Agrippa during the reign of Augustus (27 BC – 14 AD). The present building was completed by the emperor Hadrian and probably dedicated about 126 AD. He retained Agrippa's original inscription, which has confused its date of construction.

The building is circular with a portico of large granite Corinthian columns (eight in the first rank and two groups of four behind) under a pediment. A rectangular vestibule links the porch to the rotunda, which is under a coffered concrete dome, with a central opening (oculus) to the sky. Almost two thousand years after it was built, the Pantheon's dome is still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome. The height to the oculus and the diameter of the interior circle are the same, 43.3 metres (142 ft)"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon,_Rome

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Titled upwards

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:35:38 +0000

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Marbled walls

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:35:23 +0000

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Rome - The Pantheon

"The Pantheon . . . is a building in Rome, Italy, on the site of an earlier building commissioned by Marcus Agrippa during the reign of Augustus (27 BC – 14 AD). The present building was completed by the emperor Hadrian and probably dedicated about 126 AD. He retained Agrippa's original inscription, which has confused its date of construction.

The building is circular with a portico of large granite Corinthian columns (eight in the first rank and two groups of four behind) under a pediment. A rectangular vestibule links the porch to the rotunda, which is under a coffered concrete dome, with a central opening (oculus) to the sky. Almost two thousand years after it was built, the Pantheon's dome is still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome. The height to the oculus and the diameter of the interior circle are the same, 43.3 metres (142 ft)"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon,_Rome

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View of El Purgatorio and an adobe pyramid

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 19:02:26 +0000

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"Túcume is a pre-Hispanic site in Peru, south of the La Leche River on a plain around La Raya Mountain. It covers an area of over 540 acres (220 ha) and encompassing 26 major pyramids and mounds. The area is referred to as Purgatorio (purgatory) by local people.

This site was a major regional center, maybe even the capital of the successive occupations of the area by the Lambayeque/Sican (800-1350 AD), Chimú (1350–1450 AD) and Inca (1450–1532 AD). Local shaman healers (curanderos) invoke power of Tucume and La Raya Mountain in their rituals, and local people fear these sites. Hardly anyone other than healers venture out in this site at night."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BAcume

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View from El Purgatorio (197m)

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 19:02:19 +0000

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Dancing men

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 23:29:58 +0000

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Wall murals at Huaca de la Luna. Huaca de la Luna, which is located near Trujillo, Peru, was built between 600 and 900 AD by the Moche people.

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Spiders

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 23:29:52 +0000

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Wall murals at Huaca de la Luna. Huaca de la Luna, which is located near Trujillo, Peru, was built between 600 and 900 AD by the Moche people.

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Ai apaec

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 01:36:35 +0000

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Carving of Ai apaec at Huaca de la Luna near Trujillo, Peru.

"Ai apaec (from the Mochica Aiapæc [a.ja.pøk] or [aiapøk]), also called decapitador was the chief deity of the Mochica culture, was one of their gods punishers, the most feared and adored, is also called the headsman. Ai Apaec was worshiped as the creator god, protector of the Moche, a provider of water, food and military triumphs. Aiapaec means 'doer' in Mochica language.

The most common representation of Ai Apaec is that seen in the murals of the Temples of the moon and sun (picture), which presents an anthropomorphic face with feline fangs and surrounding ocean waves.

Ai apaec was represented in several ways, depending on the period, place, and support used. In metallurgy, for example, Ai apaec is often seen as a spider with eight legs and an anthropomorphic face with jaguar fangs. In ceramics the divinity is often more anthropomorphic, usually with his head in his hands and sometimes with two snakes sprouting from his head (hair??). In sculpture he is shown with a staff.

It is said that during human sacrifices, prisoners were decapitated and their heads given to Ai apaec."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_apaec

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Ai apaec

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 01:36:25 +0000

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Temple of the Sun

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 22:23:19 +0000

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Temple of the Sun (Santo Domingo), Cusco, Peru

"Qurikancha (Quechua quri gold, kancha enclosure, enclosed place, yard, a frame, or wall that encloses, hispanicized spelling Coricancha), originally named Inti Kancha (Quechua inti sun) or Inti Wasi (Quechua for "sun house"), was the most important temple in the Inca Empire, dedicated primarily to Inti, the Sun God. It was one of the most revered temples of the capital city of Cusco.

The walls and floors were once covered in sheets of solid gold, and its adjacent courtyard was filled with golden statues. Spanish reports tell of its opulence that was "fabulous beyond belief". When the Spanish required the Inca to raise a ransom in gold for the life of the leader Atahualpa, most of the gold was collected from Qurikancha.

The Spanish colonists built the Church of Santo Domingo on the site, demolishing the temple and using its foundations for the cathedral. Construction took most of a century. This is one of numerous sites where the Spanish incorporated Inca stonework into the structure of a colonial building. Major earthquakes severely damaged the church, but the Inca stone walls, built out of huge, tightly-interlocking blocks of stone, still stand due to their sophisticated stone masonry. Nearby is an underground archaeological museum, which contains numerous interesting pieces, including mummies, textiles, and sacred idols from the site. The site now also includes the Church and Convent of Santo Domingo"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qurikancha

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Hand carved interior Incan walls

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 22:23:12 +0000

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Temple of the Sun (Explored)

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 00:07:44 +0000

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Machu Picchu is believed to be the estate of a 15th-century Incan emperor. It is located at an altitude of 7,970 feet (2,430 meters) in the Andes mountains of Peru.

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Temple of the Three Windows

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 00:07:37 +0000

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Machu Picchu is believed to be the estate of a 15th-century Incan emperor. It is located at an altitude of 7,970 feet (2,430 meters) in the Andes mountains of Peru.

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