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Mit Rahina

Heri-tep a'a: * SenenAnep Meritamen   

If you plough, and there's growth in the field,
And god lets it prosper in your hand,
Do not boast at your neighbor's side,
One has great respect for the silent man. (Ptahhotep)

"Praise to you, O Nile, that issues from the earth, and comes to nourish Egypt ... That waters the meadows, that Re has created to nourish all cattle. That delivers water to the desert places, which are far from water; it is his dew that falls from heaven ... lord of fish, that makes the waterfowl to go upstream ... that makes barley and creates wheat, so that he may cause the temples to keep festivals."

Prayer to Hapy

Crowded along a narrow strip of black soil, rich and fertile from the yearly innundation of the Nile, the village of Mit Rahina settles in beneath a thatch of date plam trees. As the floods recede, the annual miracle of the Nile is about the commence, when the earth is reborn. Fields turn green and gradually yellow before the harvest, laying out the bounty of the black soil - the Black Earth that is Kemet.

At the Feast of the Nile, the village headmen and priests throw food into the waters. The Nile itself is the shrine to Hapy - God of the Nile. Although the main center of worship to the creator Ptah is only a short walk away, without Hapy, the Nile would not run cool and clear, nor would the healing waters of the Nile come to enrich the land.

Livestock run free through the village with children chasing after them with sticks, herding from one field to another. Oxen, sheep, goats and pigs are used to tread in the grain with their hooves as young men coax them across with succulent sprigs as reward. An oxen regards you for a moment - seeming to ponder your presence before it heads off with the rest of the herd.

Life is always busy in this tiny village. There are always plants to tend to, grains to harvest, animals to feed and houses to repair. It is surely a busy life, but in the evening, when the Breath of Amun - the northern wind - picks up and blows across the smooth waters of the Nile, there is no other place you want to be.

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