Cobras

One of the neat things I got to see in Egypt were two live cobra snakes in the open. The picture above shows what I got to see. I don't know if this man was what you would call a snake charmer. But, it was something to see him and his snakes. We encountered him when our group arrived in Kom Ombo, Egypt. Kom Ombo is interesting in that it has the only temple dedicated to an evil god side by side with a temple dedicated to a good god. The evil god was Sekhmet who had the head of a crocodile. The good god was Greater Horus which was different from the Horus the rest of Egypt worshipped. Another interesting aspect of the Horus temple is that there was a secret passageway at one time where a priest could remain hidden and yet speak. This passageway was next to the holy of holies where the high priest and Pharoah would worship the god. It was possible that the priest could trick Pharoah into believing that it was the god speaking to him in the holy of holies. Kom Ombo ended up being a neat port of call and was our last before we reached Aswan.