Personally, lately I have been noticing that works of nature impress me far more than anything that humans can build. Nature does not shove its beauty in your face, it just sits there waiting for you to discover it. People pay tribute to their vanity and desire to amaze the rest of the world.
Enough of whining, picture time!
This is just a teaser for the rest of splendid Luxor - a snap of foggy ridges of Upper Egypt. Funfact: Did you know that Egypt is divided according to the flow of the Nile? Cairo is in Lower Egypt because Nile ends there, and Luxor and Aswan are in Upper Egypt, close to the Nile's origin.
Statues of rams guard the doors to the entrance of Karnak temple. Ram was chosen to be the it animal of the pharaoh who built it, because of ram's ability to copulate for up to ten times a day. Yes, everything is about sex.
Sex and money. But sex and money are connected in way that people strive for wealth in order to get more sex. So here you go. While shuttled to and fro between various temples and tombs, we stopped to see a masonry souvenir shop. The fella holding an alabaster jar demonstrates the process of working with it. First, the stone is roughly processed to give it conical shape, or whatever shape you want. For the second step the stone is drilled from inside in case if you are making a jar, then polished for a little while and then polished until it's perfectly smooth. But that is not as note-worthy as amazing artistic impressions on the walls. I kid, I kid. I was troubled by the way the workers were treated. The jar-holding fella would yell at and boss around the guys in a totally dehumanizing way, which he apparently thought to be funny and entertaining. See how happy those guys are?
Alright, done for tonight. Wait for more awesomeness and embarrassment!
1 comment:
Damn, it is tough to live in the third world - so easy to forget it here. Nice picture with jar-makers.
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