NMC101H1 Quiz: Notes for the Term Test
27 Nov 2012
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Beetles feed on poo and are born in poo, egyptians thought of the sun as a big ball of poo being pushed through the sky by a beetle. The horizon is a contact point, and the time when the sun sets or rises is magical and dangerous. Calendars: agricultural calendar, divided the year into 12 months and 3 seasons, axt-akhet: the inundation, from mid-july to mid-november, prt-peret: literally coming forth , the growing season, from mid november to mid- Climate and historical framework: during the paleolithic period around 400,000 bc in north east africa the climate is very wet. Personification of pharaoh as a guy who lives in the palace who is. Horus: 2 ladies name where the vulture represents upper egypt and the cobra represents. Lower egypt: golden horus name, which only comes into play in the 4th dynasty, prenomen which is written in a cartouche.
