...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.
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...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
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...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
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...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
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...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
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...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
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...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
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...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
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...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.
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Tannin, as well as Rahab, was a name applied to Egypt after the exodus of the Israelites from that country.
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...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
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...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
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...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
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...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
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===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-
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...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
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This name was also applied to Egypt, and the destruction of the Pharaoh after the Exodus of the Israelites from
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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
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-- 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
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...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
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