Templo de Kom Ombo, Dios SOBEK | EGIPTO #6

There, in this city, two kilometers away, we have the highest staircase in Egypt. We've landed now in Konombo, which is an area that's very much in the center of Egypt. In fact, this is the hottest area in all of Egypt. Now, luckily, it's November, but here if you come in the middle of summer it must be pretty awful. From what we've been told, you can only last an hour on the street. The heat and the noise outside. So, this is where we have the temple of Konombo, which you see is very pretty, although it's made of dust. 70% of what was the temple is destroyed. Here where I am now, if you've noticed, the temples have like three parts. The first is the minarets, which are the entrances to the temple. In this case they would be here, that has disappeared. And here would be the door in the middle. And here where I stand now would be like the main square. This is the part where the pueblo could access to worship their gods until they let them in. And I don't know if you hear the prayers, but they're already ringing in the evening, because the sun is covering. And here we would have access to what is the Column Courtyard. As you know, these temples are dedicated to different gods. And in this case, this temple is dedicated to the god Sobek, who was represented with a cocoteril. Many times with a coconut head. Here you see, this would be Sobek. And this is how the coronation of a new Pharaoh is represented. By the way, I take the opportunity to comment that when you finish the videos of Egipto, I'll make a video telling my experience. Because all this I did was take a pack with Mara, which we took a tourist pack. That come from all the different trips we've been paying for to go on. So we don't have to worry about anything, because we found a good offer. Let's talk about all this. Because it's a lot better to take it on your own. But many times by ignorance, as it has happened to us, At last, he's got to pack everything to forget you. But really, I'm taking advantage of that. You come here with everything pre-purchased and then you have to go adding things. So don't miss this video, because I think it's going to be very interesting if you want to come to Egypt and you don't know how to do it. Well, one particularity of this temple is that unlike the temple of this morning, El de Edho, who he dedicated to Horus, who was totally Greek, It's the first Greco-Roman temple we're seeing. That means that it started to build in the Greek era and was finished in the Roman era. A peculiarity of this temple is that you can see the techniques that were used in the Ancient Egypt to join the different blocks they used to build the temples. And it's the same technique that was used to build the temples, to build the other buildings, For example, the pyramids of Egypt, those of Giza. And the technique they used was to lay the concrete blocks, There was no cement, no mortar, nothing. Because they made a cavity between the two contiguous blocks And in that cavity they put a piece of cedar, like the one you see here, The peculiarity is that it is the only piece of cedar that remains, They put a kind of cola in it by a mixture they made at home with products they had at the time. This morning you told me that these had culillo y demás, Because that's what he told us before that these have more form, Because they are middle Greco-Romans, not Egyptians like that. It's been overnight here in the temple, well we have the crucero there next door, it's not too bad, But the bad thing is that it's been night, we've started eating mosquitoes, And less badly that we were repellent, and they've left us in peace, So this is for the video of recommendations and tips from Egypt I'll tell you. Here's the altar where he prayed, what he told you before, that all the temples had as the three parts, the main square, Then the Hall of Columns, and finally the altar where they prayed. In this case there are two altars because this is really a double temple, There were two temples at once, and for the same reason there are two entrances, Each one protected by the symbols also that he commented, Del Sol, Las Cobras and El Vulture, it's all by duplicate. And the part of the sanctuary where he prayed was a little higher, Because God could see what the people were doing, if they were good. If they made the necessary offerings, etc., etc. The Mummy, which is a very famous film by Brendan Fraser, There was a character, the principal, the evil principal, who was called Imhotep, That is a person who really existed here, in ancient Egypt, He was an architect and a doctor, in fact he designed the first pyramid, right? The oldest. Yes, he was an architect before he was a doctor, then he was also a doctor and he had quite a lot of advances. Yes, the first pyramid is the stairway, which we will see when we are in Cairo, That's the design he has, and in fact his technique is to use concrete, right? Because until then you used... It's just the adobe. Adobe, the Lomo is in Adobe. Adobe is not because it is the... Adobe is. Yes, it is. The Photoshop. They were made of adobe, weren't they? Like the rest of the houses of the pueblo, which is why today they no longer exist, right? Because it's a very weak material and it doesn't keep well over time, And he's the one who started making the techniques of using this type of material much more resistant, And then you're the only person who's been deified without being a pharaoh or a priest, Because thanks for your advance, right? Both in architecture and medicine. As the god of medicine. - I know. And in fact, as you can see here in the image, you see some hieroglyphics that are typical medical tools, Like saws, forceps and styling utensils. Look at what happened when we saw the temple and there was the moon, the full moon. In person you've been super great. It looks like a lighthouse, but it's super, super cute. How many more data so curious, so that no sea so historical, I don't know if they're getting bored or not. If you're getting bored, I'm sorry, but it's all history, right? O sea, I come here and see that I don't know much of history, But it's that I tell these things and I'm passionate, So I guess being here is more passionate than just watching and being told, right? And more than I can explain, fatal. But something curious he also told us is the way they had to know if a woman was pregnant, The sea, the predictor, the pregnancy test, or to know if there was a pregnancy the baby, I was going to be as a man or as a woman. And the curious thing is that to find out if I was pregnant a woman, What they were doing was... What a disgrace! They put an extra in the uterus... In the womb? Look at that cat. They put him in a box, where was he? Vale, yeah, in the potoro. But not in the womb, not like this. Well, they put it in there and then they smelled the breath. And if the air smelled like it, it was because I wasn't pregnant. And if not I'd smell the air a little... Also. And if I didn't smell the breath, it was because I was pregnant because everything that was there, All the aroma of the ajo, it stayed in the uterus, a half way. And to know if the baby was going to be a boy or a girl, what they did was... How? They put the woman's urine in two vases. Then in one there were barley seeds and in another there were wheat seeds. If the barley seeds grew, then I would be a chick. If I grew up with wheat, I'd be a kid. And if they both grew up, then I was going to have twins. Un andrógino. Oh, yeah, a caracol too, all right? I just got here from the Museo del Copodrilo. It's a free museum that's next to the East Conombo Temple. It's very famous because it's full of mutilated crocodiles, But they're over 2,000 years old. O sea, son of crocodiles that saccharize the Nile. I think they're one a year or so. In the old Egypt, right? It was a very impressive animal and represented one of their gods. Yes, indeed the temple is dedicated to Sobe, who is the crocodile god. They refer to animals, but not to the animal itself. Because, well, they were referring to... what was it? All animals and all. But the Cazaban would eat them easily. There was nothing that you... Look, here you see the mutilated crocodiles. And these are over 2,000 years old, impressive. So, well, the crocodile didn't have anything special. A good fighter, is he not? Oh, the sea, it's impressive. O sea, what size are these crocodiles? You can easily hold three meters with the cola. Son of the giants. You have 2,000 years. And what Mara did, O sea, that here did not adore in itself an animal, Like they do in India with the cow, they don't eat it. But they adored the qualities that the animal itself had. Well, there it is. Yes, there we have the god Sobe. Here you have more crocodiles. Also, there's a priest with his mask on. We're back in the cabin. We've had a little moment of stress. A little one, almost killed you. I ran with the four bottles of water and on top of it without the boat. Mother of God. Oh, see, the problem is we were up late taking pictures and stuff of the temple when... No worries, if they had left the tripod you had to recover it. Well, but we've been up all night taking pictures. And as I entered, the security guard took my tripod away because they think it's like... You do it as a professional, then they charge you extra. Then because he didn't pay the extra he took the tripod and left it at the entrance. And then when we finished, because he had to go back to the uncle who was at the entrance, He's been all over the place. It's getting late and then we stop there to buy water and stuff. And then it was time and we didn't see the crucero. We thought we'd lost him. And the result, of course, is that the cruise ships here sometimes dock so many that they don't all get to the shore, But he put that one on the shore and our boat was parallel to him. Then you enter through the puerta del medio, which is being used as a walkway. Then of course, from outside you couldn't see the name of our boat, which is El Princesara. And then one of the vendors told us that he was the second one, so we calmed down. Well, no, then there was the beetle, which is what the boat, boat, said back there. But if not... But, well, it was an intense moment, it was interesting. So now let's rest a minute and a half and go to the cocktail like yesterday. Alcohol is sin. Yes, the tumitos.