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A 20 page research paper that addresses various topics pertaining both to Egyptian mythology and to the societies that flourished in Mesopotamia. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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period of history, to be either the son of the Sun god or his incarnation. This located the pharaoh as indispensable to the prosperity of the country, which depended on
the flooding of the Nile for its fertility. This role of the pharaoh and how this was represented in the symbolism of architecture derives from the basic template of the
Egyptian creation myth. One of the earliest Egyptian creation myths pictures the first emergence of earth from the primordial ocean to be a mound of earth (Winston). A mound
became associated with the origins of life and this icon ultimately assumed the shape of a "small pyramid", which was carved from a "single block of stone, known as a
bnbn (benben)" (Winston). This name comes from the root, bn, which means to "swell forth" (Winston). To ancient Egyptians, this shape took on the meaning and the energy of the
life itself and "even the force that made it possible for new life to emerge after a period of dormancy" (Winston). Therefore, it is not surprising that the Egyptians
incorporated the power of the benben, i.e., the pyramid shape, in to their funerary monuments (Winston). The benben was incorporated into the structure of the bom and thereby provided the
"power for the spiritual rebirth to take place" (Winston). The first known pyramid was built during the time of the third dynasty and the first true pyramids were built during
the fourth dynasty (Winston). Snefru, the first king of the fourth dynasty is credited with building the step pyramid at Maydum, which was later modified to form the "first true
pyramid" (Suwellam). Amenhotep III who was part of the eighteenth dynasty decided that not only was he the son of sun god Amun, but he was also the "incarnation
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