The demons of the air and the water of the Nile: Saint Anthony the Great on the reason of the inundation
As early as in the fifth century BC Herodotus has considered Egypt as the gift of the Nile, because, as it is a widely known fact, without the yearly inundation of the river and its fertilizing mud the country would remain the same as its direct neighbourhood: an uninhabitable desert. Obviously, dur...
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Bar Publishing
2011
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| الملخص: | As early as in the fifth century BC Herodotus has considered Egypt as the gift of the Nile, because, as it is a widely known fact, without the yearly inundation of the river and its fertilizing mud the country would remain the same as its direct neighbourhood: an uninhabitable desert. Obviously, during the thousand-year history of Egypt, the inhabitants of the Nile valley has found several ways and methods to ensure and also to predict the future inundation of the river. So from the Old Kingdom onwards there was a considerable number of priests who were closely connected with the Nile, its observation and also with its religious cult. Henceforward the religious worship of the river and its water was so closely connected with the inundation that in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt the cult of the Nile with its ceremonies and rites has remained more or less the same as it was in the age of the Pharaohs. |
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