"Hail to thee O Nile! Who manifests thyself over this land and comes to give life to Egypt!..."

By: vivian on quinta-feira, setembro 01, 2016

“Hail to thee O Nile! Who manifests thyself over this land and comes to give life to Egypt! Mysterious is thy issuing forth from the darkness, on this day whereon it is celebrated! Water the orchards created by Re, to cause all the cattle to live, you give the earth to drink, inexhaustible one…
Lord of the fish, during the inundation, no bird alights on the crops. You create the grain, you bring forth the barley, assuring perpetuity to the temples. If you cease your toil and work, then all that exists is in anguish. If the gods suffer in the heavens, then the faces of men waste away.”

- Hymn to the Nile, circa 2100 BCE.

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