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This parallels the emergence of the Third Dynasty of Ur , when A mosaic Royal Standard from royal graves of Ur . previously independent Sumerian cities were subsumed in one political body ruled by kings who assumed quasi - divine status ...
This parallels the emergence of the Third Dynasty of Ur , when A mosaic Royal Standard from royal graves of Ur . previously independent Sumerian cities were subsumed in one political body ruled by kings who assumed quasi - divine status ...
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HELIOPOLIS ( THE CREATION ) AT HELIOPOLIS , ' the City of the Sun ' , Atum was alone on a muddy bank that had emerged from the primeval Waters of Nun that covered the world ( like the inundation of the Nile ) . Realising that he needed ...
HELIOPOLIS ( THE CREATION ) AT HELIOPOLIS , ' the City of the Sun ' , Atum was alone on a muddy bank that had emerged from the primeval Waters of Nun that covered the world ( like the inundation of the Nile ) . Realising that he needed ...
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... was at Hermopolis and not Heliopolis where the primeval mound had emerged from the Waters of Nun . From an egg lying on the The ibis - headed Thoth , god of wisdom , before a bronze obelisk . a mound emerged the sun god or , in an.
... was at Hermopolis and not Heliopolis where the primeval mound had emerged from the Waters of Nun . From an egg lying on the The ibis - headed Thoth , god of wisdom , before a bronze obelisk . a mound emerged the sun god or , in an.
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