Every year he would put a written note into the Nile to make sure the waters flooded for harvest. ... During the Old Kingdom, the Egyptians believed that the king was the living embodiment of their god. ... During the Old Kingdom, everything prospered and many great things were achieved during this period. But, by the end of the Old Kingdom, the Nile failed its duty and most things failed in return. ... The Old Kingdom did not prosper because of flaws of nature, whereas the Middle Kingdom saw its problems through man itself in the loss of the kings" authority and a less technologically advan...

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I think that if the Devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness. ... Brenk notes that in Homer's Odyssey, "the daimon acts very much like a god, except that it tends to be unidentifiable and evil" (Brenk 1986, 2074). ...

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