Bigeh

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Bigeh (Arabic: بجح, ancient Egyptian Senem[1]) is an island in the first cataract of the Nile River, Egypt, close to the island of Philae. Its fortification controlled the access to Nubia [2].

Bigeh was sacred to the ancient Egyptians.[3]. There was a belief that Osiris was buried on the island[4]. The god Thoth bore the epithets of "Great and Splendid God in Bigeh" and "He that Pacifies the Nsr.t in Bigeh" [5] and it is thought that he may have had a temple on the island.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Heinrich Karl Brugsch, Reiseberichte aus Aegypten, Olms 1855, p.268
  2. ^ Yale University Publications in Anthropology, Yale University 1936, p.96
  3. ^ The Island of Bigeh, www.philae.nu, date unknown, (accessed 22 January 2007)
  4. ^ Anne Burton, Diodorus Siculus, Brill 1972, p.95
  5. ^ Patrick Boylan, Thoth Or the Hermes of Egypt, 1922, p.169


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