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The Story of Re

“there arose out of the darkness a great shining egg, and this was Re.” In the beginning, before there was any land of Egypt, all was darkness, and there was nothing but a great waste of water called Nun. The … Continue reading

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The Story of Isis and Osiris

In the days before Re had left the earth, before he had begun to grow old, his great wisdom told him that if the goddess Nut bore children, one of them would end his reign among men. So Re laid … Continue reading

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Min – God of Fertility

Min (Menew, Amsu) was one of the Egyptian gods worshiped from predynastic times. The earliest forms of the god – his fetish – was of a barbed arrow or a thunderbolt. (The strange arrow, over time, became the first hieroglyph, … Continue reading

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