NMC253H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cleopatra, Middle Egypt, Hermopolis
13 Jan 2020
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Cosmology 1 creation accounts: unity and diversity. Borders: med coast, to aswan where the first cataract makes the nile narrow and difficult to navigate. The rock is harder so has not widened. Lower egypt, the delta, associated with the red crown of lower egypt: delta cities: memphis, political capital of just after unification, early period; Heliopolis, city of the sun god, where the earliest creation myth of egypt originated; buto, egyptian culture moves from upper to lower here, cultic centre of the goddess of the red crown. Middle egypt: cities: hermopolis, [hermes, equated with thoth who is also a messenger]; Luxor, major cult and admin centres, several ruling families ruled from there, religious centre; esna, Upper egypt, aswan area; nubia/kush: south of aswan: cities: aswan, border town where the nile narrows, egyptian believed that this is where the source of the nile is located [it"s not] but makes it an important area.
