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... Egypt : as Frankfort puts it , " the trust which people put in their ' shepherds ' was . . . that Pharaoh should wield to the full the absolute power to which his divinity entitled him , and which en- abled him — as nothing else could ...
... Egypt : as Frankfort puts it , " the trust which people put in their ' shepherds ' was . . . that Pharaoh should wield to the full the absolute power to which his divinity entitled him , and which en- abled him — as nothing else could ...
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... Egypt , the companions and chief dragomans , the chief prophets of Upper and Lower Egypt , and the Chief Bureaucrats were [ each ] at the head of a troop of Upper or Lower Egypt , or of the villages and towns which they might rule ...
... Egypt , the companions and chief dragomans , the chief prophets of Upper and Lower Egypt , and the Chief Bureaucrats were [ each ] at the head of a troop of Upper or Lower Egypt , or of the villages and towns which they might rule ...
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... Egypt , 166 ; crises in , 178 Egyptian kingship , 171 Egyptian magistrate , 193 Egyptian Pharaohs , power of , 182 , 184 Egyptian pyramid , cave- like interior of , 120 Egyptian Sakieh , [ 25 ] Egyptian tombs , endow- ments for , 215 ...
... Egypt , 166 ; crises in , 178 Egyptian kingship , 171 Egyptian magistrate , 193 Egyptian Pharaohs , power of , 182 , 184 Egyptian pyramid , cave- like interior of , 120 Egyptian Sakieh , [ 25 ] Egyptian tombs , endow- ments for , 215 ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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