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Rich land made possible
a vast farming culture
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and a stable civilization able to
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turn from daily survival
to works of the mind:
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science, mathematics,
engineering and astronomy.
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They studied the heavens
and the seasons
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gave us the 24-hour day
and the 365-day calendar.
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Egypt, an old saying goes,
was the gift of the Nile.
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But the Egyptians believed
there was one thing
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even mightier than the Nile:
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the sun-the God they called Re,
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the God who created everything.
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Each morning with its rising
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the Sun God would be born.
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Each night in setting
he'd die.
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But the next morning
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he would rise again
never failing.
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He was eternal.
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When a king died,
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it was believed that
he became one with Re:
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His son
the new pharaon became Horus
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the falcon,
the living God on earth.