Karnak Lake, Luxor, Egypt
The sacred lake, which is located in the heart of the Karnak Temple, is considered one of the secrets of ancient Egyptian life. It contains stable water that does not dry out throughout the year, and its level has not been less for 3000 years, and its length is 80 meters, and its width is 40 meters. It is located in the heart of Karnak Temple on After a great distance from the Nile River, King Thutmose III excavated it, and a huge wall in the past surrounded it, but it was destroyed with time. The second is from the western side, and on each side are stone stairs that help in going down and out of the water.
The miracle and secret in that lake are that its water is still present and has not dried up yet after 3000 years. Perhaps this is what puzzled archaeologists, that the water in this lake is constant. The water level in it does not increase or decrease so that the level of the Nile River changes and the water level of this lake. The lake has not changed, but perhaps this indicates the extent of the strength and genius of the great Egyptian engineer who took into account the factors of leakage, evaporation, and others…….
It is said that the lake was used in the past in the era of the pharaohs for purification and washing, before the religious rituals of kings and priests. Still, there is another opinion that says that birds, ducks and poultry were released and placed around the lake and inside it for swimming and drinking to be in good health before slaughtering to prepare duties at the tables of kings, The priests and the royal family are favoured by the god Amun…
It is said that the lake is visited by many Luxor residents asking for miracles, as some women in Luxor believe in its blessing. Hajj Mahmoud Ali, one of the guards inside the Karnak temples, says that he has been working inside Karnak for more than 30 years as a child with his father. Before them, his grandfather and they were. They watch daily the women coming from Luxor to obtain blessings through rituals they perform around the lake, as they believe that the water in the lake helps treat incurable diseases, including infertility and childbearing, and achieving dreams. Mahmoud Ali explained to one of the sites that he witnessed more than once women circling in 7 They lap around the sacred lake and then go down to get water from it, to bathe and drink from it after that, she and her husband, which he and her husband think is very strange and contrary to religion and belief, as it is a superstitious ritual that has nothing to do with reality. They perform these rituals around the pharaonic scarab facing the holy lake For the sake of wishing………..
As for Najwa Al-Baron, a researcher in archaeology, confirmed that the Holy Lake was associated with many stories, perhaps the most prominent of women’s dreams of pregnancy and recovery from infertility. However, this matter has no scientific basis; the women of Upper Egypt still looking for motherhood find in it their refuge and their way to motherhood. To float around the lake 7 times, wishing to have children and treatment of infertility. She added that in the near present and during the past years, the sacred lake in Karnak had become a demand for many people in Luxor, as some women believe in its blessing. They come to it to obtain blessings through rituals they perform around the lake, as they believe that the water in the lake helps treat diseases. The incurable, including infertility and childbearing
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Three whole years, during which security officials at Luxor International Airport tried to explain the phenomenon of some European tourists taking some bottles filled with the water of the holy lake at Karnak Temple while they were returning to their country. Still, it seems that the time has come to decipher it, as an Egyptian citizen named Omar Ibrahim was found by chance. Abdul Jalil from Luxor, married to a girl in the German city of Hamburg, came to the lake in the afternoon and got a bottle of its holy water, which he hid in his clothes to present as a gift to his wife, who will visit her hometown in Germany. By asking him, he said that there are some European sects with certain beliefs, these Sects believe that the waters of this lake are sacred, and have a great ability for spiritual and psychological treatment, and to expel evil spirits from homes and places, and also expel goblins and elves from human bodies. Their presence inside homes has a great blessing. It brings happiness to the owners of the house, but obtaining it according to their beliefs requires several Conditions, including that it be on the odd days of the month, and during the perpendicularity of the sun on the temple and the lake, and a single individual may not have more than 100 millilitres, and after it goes out. From the lake, you must not be exposed to the sun again.
He said, “Although my wife does not believe in these beliefs, at the insistence of a friend of hers, I came to get a quantity of them.” He explained that these sects who predict the future and treat people with spiritual medicine and extract elves and orcs from human bodies use this holy water as a kind of treatment. Some athletes even put drops of holy water on their bodies to be blessed with it before confrontations, as well as some Actresses and models and that this matter first began in England among the children of the middle class, and soon reached some European countries, such as Germany, France and Italy. Still, this matter increased after the Chinese knew this secret, and it spread in China and some Asian countries, and according to their interpretations, the most sacred water is obtained during the last month of the string years.
But Egyptologists say that as soon as the tourist enters the heart of Karnak, he finds the sacred lake and stands in front of it enchanted. As they believe in the sacred scarab, the lake represents to them the same belief, that behind it many secrets in treatment and archaeologists describe that the holy lake in Karnak Temple is a secret of The secrets of ancient pharaonic life, which King Thutmose III excavated, and was surrounded by a huge wall in the past. Still, it was destroyed with time.