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Edfu: Charles Bray took this picture of The Falcon god at Edfu. The shape of a Falcon was worshiped in Hierakonpolis in Upper Egypt (north of Edfu). Archaeologists found a golden head of a Falcon inside the temple in Hierakonpolis, and the name of the city means City of the Hawk. Another temple was built for Horus in the city of Behdet (now Damnhour in the Nile Delta), where Horus was represented in the shape of a winged Sun disk. The modern name Damnhour itself town of Horus derives from the ancient Egyptian dmi-Hor. The facade of the first hypostyle hall has images honoring Horus and Hathor, and there is an immaculate ten foot tall colossi of Horus as The Falcon God as you see in the picture (a matching colossi was destroyed).
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North Africa/Middle East
