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Even today you can still feel the full might of the pharaoh-god in this edifice dedicated to masculine prowess and military power and, equally, the love of his wife and children, symbolized in the flowers and femininity of the smaller temple. Superb relief's detail the Battle of Kadesh, and Ramses and Nefertari consorting with the deities and performing religious rituals. 

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And the rays of the sun still penetrate to the Holy of Holies deep in the rock of the main temple on the same two days of the year: the 20th of October and the 20th February. This timing is probably connected to the symbolic unification, via the rays of the sun, of the statue of Ra-Herakhty and the statue of Ramses the Second.