Word: bastet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...studies the language, tries to under stand the complex religion of "the refined and fortunate and vulnerable land of Egypt," and makes himself valuable to his master by his ability to write and calculate. From the great fortress of Thel, through the religious centres of On and Per-Bastet, on a nine-day voyage up the crowded Nile past Memphis and the pyramids, he gives himself up to observation, impressed and depressed at the grandeur of a civilization of which, as a child of the desert, he has heard only evil...
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