On 23/08/2011 10:58, Caroline Tully wrote:
The history/mythology is many layered - its a question of integrating
the archaeological "memory" with the textual.
"North" & "South" started in the preformal as two towns both in upper
Egypt and not that far apart.
Hierakonpolis (City of the Hawk) and Egypt's oldest city versus Nubt
(Citadel of Seth) -
Hierakonpolis is a prehistoric city about 100km south of Nubt (Nagada) -
Important events are recorded in the archaeological record for
Hierakonpolis circa 4000bc -
both settlements more or less abandoned in antiquity, the cult of Horus
relocated to
Edfu (which itself is rather odd ideological move).
More fascinating info here:
http://www.hierakonpolis-online.org/
bb/senebty
Mogg
> What about the idea that Osiris represents fertile green land, while Seth
> represents the desert - and that's what their opposition is about?
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> ~Caroline.
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