Lesliepatra alights the barge

Subject: Cruising

We are now on the Alexander. Only three other guests on the boat (plus us makes 5). We just had a six course meal. Tomorrow I am going trim down to three courses. The food is very good.
I am hoping to lose weight too.  I am getting lots of exercise walking. Tomorrow we will do some yoga, sail to Kom Ombo and visit the site, sail to and visit Edfu (Horus temple), tour the engine room, go to cooking glass, and go to a galabeya party.


I am laying on a deck chair watching the Egyptian country side go by. The weather is warm and sunny
I have seen temple ruins, farms, water buffalo grazing.

I think you would really enjoy this trip.

This morning the boat moored at Edfu where we walked to the amazing temple
dedicated to Sobek and Horus.

I got some great pictures for Sophy. This was also the centre of medicine. I took a picture of some of the medical instruments for Jeff.

It is almost time for our barbeque lunch.

After we dock at Esne and take a horse-drawn carriage to the site.

Joc has become a Boggle fan.

Miss you. Love. Les

Notes for the strident student of Egyptology

This is sobek at Kom Ombo who was god of fertility and creator of the world. (The guy sitting on the left)

The temple at EDFU was called both "House of the Crocodile" and "Castle of the Falcon". An imaginary line divides the temple longitudinally into two parts, each with its entrance, hypostyle halls, chapels, etc. The right part of the temple was consecrated to Sobek, the left to Haroeris (Horus), whose winged disk that protects from all evils is depicted over all the entrance portals.

Horus of course is the son of Osiris and Isis. He was conceived magically after the death of Osiris, and Isis hid him away on an island to protect him from Set. In this form he is worshipped as an infant and is beseeched to gain his mother's protection for the worshipper. Here at EDFU he was God of the noontime sun and was first worshipped in the western Delta and spread south, a cult center being established at Edfu. He is represented by a winged sun or as a lion with the head of a hawk. Horus Behudety fights constantly against Set and an army of darkness to ensure that the sun rises each day.