Show temple built to honor great egyptian goddess the templo at Den derah Is one of the most farious famous temples la in all egypt according to the historical facts which the scientists have been able to dit die out of the hieroglyphic records it was waa restored by pharaoh dept 1 I who lived four thousand years ago in the sixth dynasty there is a high wall round the tempie temple with a majestic gateway en towny and to walk through this gateway la Is to be awed by the majesty of the columns of the entrance hall the capitals of th se aa columns are graven in the image of cathor the goddes z to whom the temple Is in dedicated sho she Is represented as a woman with the ears of a helfer heifer and with hair flowing down both sides of her head bead A center aisle aide leads through the nail of columns to the shrine proper on each side of this alala aisle are chambers which are arc identified by hieroglyphic inscriptions denoting their particular uses also thero there Is ft a gallery encircling the shrine and from this still till other chambers open on the roof of the temple Is a shrine to osiris and here there are hieroglyphics describing the ritual of the osiris cult |