The winter solstice is a special day at the Ancient Egyptian temple complex at Luxor on the Nile River ... it enters the Holy of Holies which houses a statue of Amun, the god of air and fertility.

Nesyamun was a priest at the temple of Amun in the Karnak complex at Thebes (modern day Luxor).Nesyamun was a ... therefore permitted to approach the statue of Amun in the most sacred inner ...