Edfu
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Sep 28, 2026
John CavarroHOST
From Aswan to the ship, the ship sails north onward towards two more temple sites.
John CavarroHOST
So that would be Komombo and Edfu.
John CavarroHOST
So tell us a little bit more about the temples at Komombo and Edfu.
BethanyHOST
Yeah, so Kamanbu is kind of unique.
BethanyHOST
It's one of the only, it is the only temple in Egypt that was dedicated to two kind of contrasting gods side by side.
BethanyHOST
And so it's a unique temple in that regard.
BethanyHOST
So Sobek was closely tied to the Nile itself, which again makes Camombo a fitting place to remember that very first plague where, you know, the river turned to blood.
BethanyHOST
And then from there, continuing on to Edfu, you'll go to the home of one of the best preserved temples in all of Egypt.
Freddy SilvaGUEST
It's when you lose the plot that they had to put the information on the walls to make sure that no one would forget.
Freddy SilvaGUEST
And this is why when the Greeks rediscovered Edfu and took the stones, started putting them back together, they recognized that they had actually found a whole bunch of books that were left there.
Freddy SilvaGUEST
And they figured, well, this is going to be lost.
Freddy SilvaGUEST
So let's just hammer all the information onto the walls, lest anybody forgets the information that's here.
Freddy SilvaGUEST
It's a huge favor.
Freddy SilvaGUEST
So you go to Edfu and you spend three hours there, or at least I do with my group anyway.
Freddy SilvaGUEST
I can't spend less than three hours there.
Freddy SilvaGUEST
And we would take a packed lunch just to not waste any time.
Josh SigurdsonGUEST
And it shows that you have this apocalyptic event, a great flood, which the Egyptians talked about.
Josh SigurdsonGUEST
The Edfu building texts talk about this in the previous homeland, the homeland of the primeval ones that they lived in.
Josh SigurdsonGUEST
The Greeks talk about Atlantis.
Josh SigurdsonGUEST
Hopi Indians talk about this.
Tyler EngleGUEST
He's awesome, and he's kind of the one that, that has pushed the, the, the boundaries of reading this stuff.
Tyler EngleGUEST
'Cause when you go to Edfu, the building texts of Edfu are...
Tyler EngleGUEST
Um, so building texts are on the walls of the temple, right? The building texts of Edfu are actually the first records of Atlantis that we have, that's not Plato.
Tyler EngleGUEST
The, the story of, of Atlantis is on Edfu, and you can see it everywhere.
Tyler EngleGUEST
There's, there's boats coming in with the, with the gods.
Tyler EngleGUEST
They're carrying him in, and he walks through the entire outer, outer wall of the temple, and it'll show you all the stuff.
Joe RoganHOST
And where is this?
Tyler EngleGUEST
Edfu.
Andye MurphyHOST
Because for me, oh,
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Ed Fu.
Andye MurphyHOST
The first time I walked into Ed Fu and I'm like, leave me here.
Andye MurphyHOST
I don't ever want to leave.
Andye MurphyHOST
It was so, so much information there.
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Andye MurphyHOST
And somewhere in the middle of all of that, the invitation moves from possibility into inevitability.
Andye MurphyHOST
You stop asking whether it's sensible and start realizing how much energy you're spending trying to pretend you don't already know.
Andye MurphyHOST
That's the sacred fuck yes.
Jill BartonGUEST
... um, and refusing to or, to even organize it.
Jill BartonGUEST
There's a notorious place along the Nile River when you do the Nile cruise called Edfu, and that's very notorious with their horses and carriages.
Jill BartonGUEST
They say it's the only way to get off from the boat to the temple.
Jill BartonGUEST
And so these poor horses are all so skinny and starved, and I have to say, it's another thing that they do.
Benjamin BosterHOST
The stretch of the Nile between Cairo and Aswan has long been a popular destination for tourists.
Benjamin BosterHOST
During celebrations surrounding the opening of the Suez Canal in 1870, a large group of tourists took a boat ride on that stretch of the river, and visited Luxor, Dendera, Saqqara, Edfu, and Philae.
Benjamin BosterHOST
The Aswan High Dam also benefited the cruise industry because the river from Aswan to the delta became safely navigable all year.
Benjamin BosterHOST
The cosmology of the ancient Egyptians was cyclic in nature.
Graham HancockGUEST
It certainly sounds like that.
Graham HancockGUEST
And then on the other side of the world, in Egypt, we have the Edfu building texts, astonishing body of texts, which almost perfectly summarize the story of Atlantis.
Graham HancockGUEST
You know, Egyptologists say there is no reference to Atlantis in ancient Egypt.
Graham HancockGUEST
And strictly speaking, that's true.
Graham HancockGUEST
The word Atlantis never appears in any ancient Egyptian text.
Graham HancockGUEST
But there is a homeland of the primeval ones.
Graham HancockGUEST
described in the ancient Edfu texts, which is an island which is inhabited by the quote unquote gods, which is destroyed by some object that comes streaking down from the sky, described as the great leaping one and pictured as some kind of snake.
Graham HancockGUEST
And then there's an enormous flood and the majority of the inhabitants are drowned and made clear that there are a few survivors and they make it their mission to try to restart the world of the gods, or in my language, the lost civilization.
speaker_0HOST
In Egypt, encircling was considered a powerful act.
speaker_0HOST
The temple dedication ritual at Edfu involved the king and priests circumambulating the building.
speaker_0HOST
This action, explains Egyptologist Robert Rittner, simultaneously purified the site, delimited its sacred space, and protected it from external forces.
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The Egyptian verb pekher, to encircle, also came to mean to enchant.
Andrew GoughGUEST
I've been all over Egypt, and I know you have, and there's no place that talks, there's no place in Egypt where Egypt is bowing down to some other ancient civilization.
Andrew GoughGUEST
Sure, there's there's the the text, the Edfu text that talk about, you know, Zep Tepi.
Andrew GoughGUEST
But there's no place where they talk about another great culture.
Andrew GoughGUEST
It's all Egypt, right? Pharaoh smiting the enemy.
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