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Marsh

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An open wetland of reeds and soft ground. Not swamp as wooded wet, and not fen as a near twin under a second id this pass.

Egyptian religion

  • Marsh appears in Egyptian religion.

    Herodotus’s Egyptian logos sets marshy Delta margins among the land’s wet borders. A named marsh margin in that traveler’s account, not swamp as a thicker wet waste and not oasis as a watered pocket.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

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