region
Nile valley
The inhabited course of the Nile. Egyptian temple and funerary facts belong to this geography before they belong to later Europe’s Egyptomania.
Egyptian religion · Nile valley
Nile valley contains Nile.
The inhabited valley is the river’s course. Egyptian facts belong here before they belong to Egyptomania.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972; Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE
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Giza appears in Nile valley.
Giza is a cemetery plateau of the valley. Tourism and occult silhouettes come later.
from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE
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Egyptian religion appears in Nile valley.
Temple and funerary religion of the valley. Later European fashion is another century.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972; Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE
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Green appears in Nile valley.
Osiris’s green face is an Egyptian image of restored life. Keep it off Islamic green and off leaf-green.
from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE
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sources
- Book of the Dead · Raymond O. Faulkner (translation)
Raymond O. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.
- Histories · Herodotus
Herodotus, Histories.
- On Isis and Osiris · Plutarch
Plutarch, On Isis and Osiris (Moralia).