Desert River

Desert River Chaos Order

“The Egyptians believed that unity was emphasized by the complementary of its parts. Thus the king of a united Egypt still bore the title ‘lord of the two lands’ and ‘he of the sedge and the bee.’ Similarly, the county was divided into the black land and the red land, and split between the east (the land of the living) and the west (the realm of the dead). The earth was distinct from the heavens but the two together were the complementary halves of the created universe, while beyond the universe was the ‘uncreated,’ the chaos from which man and the gods had emerged.

“The duality is present at many levels of thought and symbolism, so that there are gods of Upper and Lower Egypt, and the gods of the living and the dead. The mythical struggle between Horus and Seth was essentially regarded as the universal struggle between good and evil, the triumph of light over darkness and the prevailing of order over chaos.” (The Dictionary of Ancient Egypt [1995], p. 88)

Lower Egypt Upper Egypt

The government of ancient Egypt was a “dual monarchy, the kingship of Upper and the kingship of Lower Egypt united in the single person of the ruler. This extraordinary conception expressed in political form the deeply rooted Egyptian tendency to understand the world in dualistic terms as a series of pairs of contrasts balanced in unchanging equilibrium.” (Henri Frankfort, Kingship and the Gods [1978], p. 19) The government of ancient Egypt was a “dual monarchy, the kingship of Upper and the kingship of Lower Egypt united in the single person of the ruler. This extraordinary conception expressed in political form the deeply rooted Egyptian tendency to understand the world in dualistic terms as a series of pairs of contrasts balanced in unchanging equilibrium.” (Henri Frankfort, Kingship and the Gods [1978], p. 19)

Crown of Upper Egypt

Crown of Upper Egypt

Crown of Upper Egypt Crown of Upper Egypt

Crown of Upper Egypt Crown of Upper Egypt

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Lower

This picture shows two goddesses Wadjet wearing the red crown of lower Egypt and Nekhbet wearing the white crown of upper Egypt.

Day 1 Without form and void; light and darkness; day and night ; morning and evening (vss 2-5) Day 1 Without form and void; light and darkness; day and night ; morning and evening (vss 2-5) Day 2 Divided waters (above) from waters (under) the firmament (vss 6-(above7) Day 2 Divided waters (above) from waters (under) the firmament (vss 6-(above7) Day 3 Dry land and Sea; seed and it’s fruit (vss 9-12) Day 3 Dry land and Sea; seed and it’s fruit (vss 9-12) Day 4 Lights in heaven for signs and for seasons; for days and years; the greater (sun) and lesser (moon) lights (vss 14-18) Day 4 Lights in heaven for signs and for seasons; for days and years; the greater (sun) and lesser (moon) lights (vss 14-18) Day 5 Sea life and fowl in the air (vss 20-21) Day 5 Sea life and fowl in the air (vss 20-21)

Day 6... animals and man; animals and man; God said unto mine Only Begotten; God said unto mine Only Begotten; Let us make man in our image after our likeness; Let us make man in our image after our likeness; Man is created male and female (vss ) Man is created male and female (vss )