Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
HOLY ISLAND PHILAE OF THE NILE
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As the rocket probe, "Philae" from its mothership, "Rosetta," approaches its fateful rendezvous, in minutes, with a comet in outer space, it would be well to learn of the holy and original Philae Island in the Nile River, dividing Egypt from Ethiopia,at the 1st cataract. Dedicated to Osiris, Isis, Horus, and Hathor, eons ago prior to invasions by successive imperialists from the Greeks to the Romans to the early Christians to the Western Europeans to Turks to Arabs and Muslims, after Africa's fall. Britain's Aswan Dam flooded it in 1902. Scavengers and antiquaries looted it.