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...played an important role in the religious concepts of both Upper and Lower Egypt and are likely to have been designated as animals associated with protectio ...ding ceremonial slate palettes. Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 39: 5–25.

...لسلعوة in Arabic is an elusive dog-like creature in the modern folklore of Egypt. ...the 60s and 70s then reappeared in 1996 in the village of Armant in upper Egypt and in Cairo. It’s also claimed to be responsible for another short bout

...s a symbol of sovereignty, royalty, deity, and divine authority in ancient Egypt. ...e became the patroness of the Nile Delta and the protector of all of Lower Egypt, so her image was worn by the pharaohs as a head ornament, first as the bod

...desses, the other, [[Bast (goddess)|Bast]], being the war goddess of Lower Egypt. Consequently it was Sekhmet who was seen as the ''Avenger of Wrongs'', and ...became synonymous with doctors and surgeons during the [[Middle Kingdom of Egypt|Middle Kingdom]]. In antiquity, many of Sekhmet's priests were often consid

...hology). Hermanubis was popular during the period of Roman domination over Egypt. He is the son of Osiris and Nephthys. After the Greeks and Romans took over Egypt, the cult of Anubis became assimilated with that of the Greek messenger god

...ile eggs wherever it finds them. Pierre Belon, who traveled from France to Egypt two-hundred fifty years before Napoleon’s expedition published a narrativ <blockquote>This animal is the mortal enemy of the asp. It is a native of Egypt and when it sees an asp near its place, it runs at once to the bed or mud o

...dent that caused its rise. The story became popular around the 1950s where Egypt was less urban than it is now, and people would spend more time closer to t ...ghts, after which he would eventually leave late at night. People in rural Egypt believe that a man who is called for by El Naddaha is doomed, curing him fr

...Moses. Mastema is also said to have been chained while the Israelites left Egypt but then let go to encourage the Egyptians to chase after the Israelites an ...what the prince of Mastema wanted to do to you while you were returning to Egypt - on the way at the shady fir tree. Did he not wish with all his strength t

...o ancient Egyptian mythology, was also believed to be the ba of Re, and by Egypt's Late Period, the hieroglyphic sign depicting the bird was used to write t ...yptian name of Osiris). The Bennu was also sometimes associated with Upper Egypt.

Tannin, as well as Rahab, was a name applied to Egypt after the exodus of the Israelites from that country.

...tion of) the name given to the live crocodile at Crocodilopolis in Ancient Egypt, which was worshiped as a manifestation of the Egyptian god [[Sobek]] (Gree

...ing, Thoth, is described: "The story is that in the region of Naucratis in Egypt there dwelt one of the old gods of the country, the god to whom the bird ca

...t (as depicted in popular art), and the Egyptian god [[Ammon]], of Mendes, Egypt- an emblem (according to Levi) of fertility and sexual freedom. Levi's conn

...r Way or Path, and LAMA is He who Goeth, the specific title of the Gods of Egypt, the Treader of the Path, in Buddhistic phraseology. Its numerical value is

===Egypt Road, Salem=== Although the bridge is off of Egypt Road, it is actually on what used to be West Pine Lake Rd., which now dead-

...Geryon]] and [[Echidna]] while Chione was her daughter by the river-god of Egypt, Neilus. Meanwhile, to Poseidon, she borne Minyas, founder of Minyan Orchom

This name was also applied to Egypt, and the destruction of the Pharaoh after the Exodus of the Israelites from

Originally she was viewed as the protector goddess of Lower Egypt, and consequently depicted as a fierce lion. Thus, by the Middle Kingdom sh ...for Upper Egypt. Eventually, her position as patron and protector of Lower Egypt, lead to her being identified as the more substantial goddess [[Mut]], whos

-- Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt, R. T. Rundle Clark ...te deity, since he had been protector of Ra, and was associated with Lower Egypt, where their power base was. Consequently, because the foreign overlords we

...angers. Apis was the most popular of the three great bull cults of ancient Egypt (the others being the bulls Mnevis and Buchis.) Unlike the cults of most of ...ore prominent in Upper Egypt, which was not so popular with those in Lower Egypt, where the Greeks had stronger influence. Nethertheless, the Greeks had lit

The creature has been featured in myths from Egypt, where it appears on wall murals. It has also been found figured on ancient

...''' are mermen from Sirius who, according to some authors, visited Ancient Egypt.

...Egyptian; for I maintain that the Greeks took their shield and helmet from Egypt." - Herodotus, Histories 4. 180. 1 (trans. Godley) (Greek historian C5th B.

...e gods could withstand him as he attacked. In panic they fled to Aigyptos (Egypt), all except Athena and Zeus, who alone were left. Typhon hunted after them ...kes it clear that the Olympian gods are the heirs of the animal deities of Egypt. Typhon is then an avatar of the god Set.

...e Gnostic writings of Simon Magus, father of the Gnostics and Basilides of Egypt, an early 2nd-century Gnostic teacher. The Gnostics, a sect of the 2nd cent ...accordingly he it was who transferred the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt into the land of Canaan; affirming him to be turbulent above the other ange

* Massey, Gerald. 1907. ''Ancient Egypt, the Light of the World''. Unwin.

...she would "write only for the Lord." She called ''Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt'', her first novel in this genre, the beginning of a trilogy that will chro ...ef=pd_bbs_2/102-2305931-9420165?ie=UTF8&s=books ''Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt'' - Rice has suggested that there will be three sequels to this work]

...rusalem in the final days. Jerusalem will figuratively be called Sodom and Egypt at that time. At the end of times he is given the key to the abyss and rele

...ve'' in Cornwall, ''adderstanes'' or ''Gloine nan Druidh'' in Scotland. In Egypt they are called ''aggry'' or ''aggri''.

...e Mammon from Phoenician ''mommon'', benefit or Egyptian Amon-Ra (Amen-Ra, Egypt).

...ugh one may be hard-pressed to find a living Mummy in any place other than Egypt). ...ly understood today. Embalming is believed to have actually originated in Egypt, probably before 4,000 B.C. Although there are at least three different me

===Ancient Greece and Egypt=== ..."scoundrel") was captured in combat against tribes dwelling to the west of Egypt in Cyrenaica. To the unit of soldiers, according to the hagiographic narrat

...re said to live in Africa, in Nubia, Kush, or Ethiopia, generally south of Egypt.

...hrowing the water off roofs, when not conveyed in gutters, was adopted. In Egypt gargoyles ejected the water used in the washing of the sacred vessels which

...ca 1600 BCE where it represented the travels of the sun disk. From ancient Egypt it passed to Phoenicia and then to the Greek philosophers, who gave it the

Prayers to Anubis have been found carved on the most ancient tombs in Egypt; indeed, the ''Unas'' text (line 70) associates him with the Eye of Horus. ...and there is no doubt that even the earliest times his cult was general in Egypt; it is probable that it is older than that of [[Osiris]].

...ngs and nobility in wax, though this practice has never been documented in Egypt. The body of a Persian Princess which surfaced in 2004 in Pakistan turned ===Ancient Egypt===

...the title ''Tracking Satyrs'' (''Ichneutae''), was found at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, 1907.

...smissed the claim that it floated as merely the legend of Delos brought to Egypt from Greek tradition. The Romans called Leto ''Latona''.

In the Jewish tradition she is identified with [[Lilith]], in Coptic Egypt with [[Alabasandria]], and in Byzantine culture with [[Gylou]], but in vari

...escued Chiron accompanies Arkantos and Ajax on their adventures in Greece, Egypt and the underworld.

...his especially included nations warring against Israel such as Assyria and Egypt. (The Bible Knowledge Commentary, Old Testament,1985, SP Publications Inc. ...his especially included nations warring against Israel such as Assyria and Egypt. (The Bible Knowledge Commentary, Old Testament,1985, SP Publications Inc.

...t cinders, Tobias produces a smoky vapor which causes the demon to flee to Egypt, where Raphael binds him (viii.2, 3). From Media post to Egypt, there fast bound.

...)|Set]] ([[Egyptian mythology]] during the [[Second Intermediate Period of Egypt|Second Intermediate Period]])

...en in some vast fortress, is suggestive of the burial practices of ancient Egypt.

...as a female. When it was, it symbolized Isis and/or the reigning queen. In Egypt the intellectual faculties ennobled the bestial traits present in the physi ...slept, the Sphinx spoke to the young prince and promised him the throne of Egypt if he promised to clear away the sand, which covered him. Later, when his e

...is a boy, keep it, if a girl, discard it." &ndash; Naphtali Lewis, Life in Egypt Under Roman Rule.

The Griffin was known in Egypt before 3300 BC and is possibly more ancient still. Pliny believed griffins In Ancient Egypt, the griffin was depicted with a slender, feline body and the head of a fal

...corsetting it and preventing it from flying apart in splinters. In ancient Egypt, the snake biting its tail symbolised the sea as the eternal ring which enc

===Egypt=== ...e and its parent's sepulchre), and carries it to the city of Heliopolis in Egypt, and deposits it in the temple of the Sun."

...he wandered the earth. Eventually Io was driven to the ends of the earth, Egypt, where the Egyptians saw her and worshipped her as a goddess.

...itualism]], and art. Alchemy has been practiced in Mesopotamia, [[Ancient Egypt]], Persia, India, and China, in Classical Greece and Rome, in the Islamic e ...ancient Egyptian word referred to both the country and the colour "black" (Egypt was the "Black Land", by contrast with the "Red Land", the surrounding dese

===Khemet (Ancient Egypt)===

...gi]], were lands where expertise in magic was thought to be prevalent. In Egypt, a large number of magical [[papyrus|papyri]], in [[Greek language|Greek]], ...pean [[colonialism]], which put Westerners in contact with [[India]] and [[Egypt]], re-introduced exotic beliefs to Europeans at this time. [[Hinduism|Hindu

However in the magical papyri of Greco-Roman Egypt survive several hymns which identify Hecate with Selene and the moon, extol In the magical papyri of Ptolemaic Egypt, she is called the she-dog or bitch, and her presence is signified by the b

...gic users. Many examples can be found in ancient texts, such as those from Egypt and Babylonia. Where malicious magic is believed to have the power to influ ...and its practice seem to have been widespread in the past. Both in ancient Egypt and in Babylonia it played a conspicuous part, as existing records plainly

*Amen - Amen Ra was the last pharaoh of the 6th dynasty of Egypt, a handsome and wise ruler who had a secret life as an assassin murdering t

...ife, although, certainly demons per se did not exist specifically in pagan Egypt.

...antiseptic and antibiotic properties originates thousands of years ago in Egypt, where it was believed to possess healing powers. According to one source,

...rposes of Belial. Also, in 20:2, Joseph prophesies that when Israel leaves Egypt, they will be with God in light while Beliar will remain in darkness with t

...: The Titans''', Cerberus was a titan that had been freed and set loose in Egypt. It was defeated by the Egyptian stone Guardian.

...d'', worshipped in the city of Mendes, the Greek name of ancient Djedet in Egypt, as a he-goat, imagined as “copulator in Anep and inseminator in the dist

...human body, one for the head, one for the neck, and so on. In present-day Egypt, the ubiquitous jinn are believed to be so densely distributed that acts su

* In the [[Hebrew Bible]], [[Plagues of Egypt|plague]]s and other misfortunes are described as signs of [[God]]'s anger o

...serpents and mentioned reports of flying serpents flying from Arabia into Egypt but being fought off by Ibises.

...while the name was anciently thought to originate from the place Nysa, in Egypt (now Ethiopia).

...antiseptic and antibiotic properties originates thousands of years ago in Egypt, where it was believed to possess healing powers. According to one source, ...ins for the Vampire, the Vampire seems to originate back to either ancient Egypt or the Indus Valley (folklorists are debating as to the validity of these n

He said that a mystical experience in 1904, while on vacation in Cairo, Egypt, led to his founding of the religious philosophy known as Thelema. Aleister

...gel to protect the [[Hebrews|Hebrew people]] after their [[exodus]] from [[Egypt]], to lead them to the [[promised land]], and to destroy the hostile tribes

Cannibalism was documented in Egypt during a famine caused by the failure of the Nile to flood for eight years