Show temple built to honor great egyptian goddess the temple at Den dorah derah to Is one 0 of f the tha most famous temples in all egypt according to the historical facts which the scientists have baye been atile able to dig out of the hieroglyphic records it was restored by pharaoh I 1 who lived tour four thousand years yeara ago in the sixth dynasty there Ls Is a high wall round the temple with a majestic gateway and to walk through this gateway Is to bo be awed by the majesty of the columns of 01 the entrance hall ball the me capitals of these columns are graven in the image of hathor the goddess to whom the temple Is dedicated she la Is represented as a woman with the ears of a heifer and with hair flowing down both sides bides of her head A center albie leads leada through the hall of columns to the shrine proper on each side olde of this aisle are chambers chamb cra which are identified by hieroglyphic inscriptions denoting their particular uses osea also thero there Is it a gallery encircling the shrine and from this still other chambers open on the roof of the temple Is a shrine to osiris and here there are hieroglyphics glyph ica describing the ritual of the tha osiris cult |