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Histories
Herodotus
book · c. 440s BCE
Herodotus, Histories.
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Egyptian religion · Nile valley
The Giza plateau holds the famous Old Kingdom pyramids. The place is a cemetery; the silhouette later travelled without the burial.
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Pyramid belongs to Egyptian religion.
Pyramids are Old Kingdom royal tombs. Herodotus describes them as a Greek visitor; he is not the building inscription.
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Giza appears in Nile valley.
Giza is a cemetery plateau of the valley. Tourism and occult silhouettes come later.
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Pyramid is associated with Stone.
Pyramids are piled stone. A building fact before it is a silhouette of mystery.
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Giza is associated with Stone.
The plateau is worked limestone and casing stone. Herodotus’s visitor-account is not a quarry ledger, but the material is stone.
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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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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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Hellenic religion
Athena is associated with Olive.
Athenian story makes the olive her gift in the contest for the city. A local aetiology of oil and prize, not every Mediterranean grove.
from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE; Walter Burkert · Greek Religion, 1977 German; 1985 English
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Griffin appears in Hellenic religion.
Herodotus reports northern gold-guarding griffins in Greek ethnographic speech. A Hellenic traveler’s monster report, not a Mesopotamian guardian and not every hybrid.
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Hyperborea appears in Hellenic religion.
Herodotus reports Hyperboreans as a far-north people in Greek ethnographic speech, including offerings said to reach Delos. A Hellenic far-country report, not Atlantis and not a later occult north.
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Oak appears in Hellenic religion.
Herodotus reports the oracle at Dodona as a speaking oak of Zeus. A named Hellenic oak-oracle, not Pliny’s Druid oak, and not Yggdrasil.
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Hellenic religion · Nile valley
Isis is a counterpart of Demeter.
Herodotus says that Isis is, in the Greek language, Demeter, locating that name at a temple in the Egyptian Delta. A Greek traveler’s identification of an Egyptian goddess, not a single being and not the Homeric Hymn’s grain-mother.
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Egyptian religion
Phoenix appears in Egyptian religion.
Herodotus Histories 2 reports the phoenix as a sacred bird of Egyptian Heliopolis that renews itself after long age. Egyptian temple lore told to a Greek traveler, not a rebirth slogan for every culture.
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Herodotus describes a principal Egyptian festival of Isis at Busiris where the people lament after sacrifice. A Greek traveler’s report of Isis as the dedicatory focus of a named rite, not the Demeter interpretatio edge and not a Book of the Dead spell.
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