The New York Obelisk: Cleopatra's Needle - With a Preliminary Sketch of the History, Erection, Uses, and Signification of Obelisks

Chapter II. (Page 12.) The goddess Nekheb, the tutelary deity of kings, represented as a vulture carrying the Atef-crown on its head and holding a flabellum or fan of feathers and a signet-ring in each claw. Chapter IV. (Page 26.) The symbol of the god Horus of Edfu, represented as the winged disk of the sun encircled by two Urus-snakes or cobras. The oldest nation on the globe sends her greeting to her youngest sister. The "Setting Sun" has shed its last rays on the Old World from Egypt's sunny land and now appears on this western shore as a brilliant "Rising Sun". In the metropolis of the Western Hemisphere one of Egypt's grandest treasures meets our eyes and, though silent, reminds us of her former greatness. Here stands a monument of two of her greatest Pharaohs, lords and conquerors, scourges of their people, and a terror to their foes. It tells the story of serfs and teems with cringing words and the praise of despots. Yet it was a glorious time when this monument was erected and inscribed, a time of power, pride, learning, greatness, conquest for the lords, but for the people a time of abject subjection, misery, and hardships. Pharaoh was master of all. But the sun of his grandeur has set and vanished, and our obelisk, that proud monument of Pharaonic times, now sees a spectacle which the greatest flight of fancy could not have pictured to any man of those by-gone days. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 47273
Author: Moldenke, Charles E.
Release Date: Nov 3, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English