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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] ^ Lioness is correct. What is Kmt, and what is not Kmt?? As already explained Kmt was originally known as Sinwaj Tawy meaning the 'Two Lands' because it was originally two countries-- Ta Mehu (Lower Egypt) and Ta Shemau (Upper Egypt). My point is that the southernmost part of Ta Shemau was culturally part of Ta-Seti, the 3rd country just south of Ta-Shemau. [IMG]https://isac.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/shared/images/archive/museum/nubia/Agroupmap.jpg[/IMG] Again, this shows how cultural borders do not always follow political borders because the A-Group/Setiu people of the 2 southernmost nomes came under the hegemony of Nekhen/Hierakonpolis which was one of the 3 confederacies that lead to the formation of Ta-Shemau. [IMG]https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d8396d6e57474059d685116/1571245774233-0VQS5T4Z0XPW5ZKGH9YL/Nekhen+Map.JPG[/IMG] Once Shemau was united it conquered Mehu and unified into a single kingdom of Kmt, they made the 1st Cataract their southern border marker and the land to the south became the region Ta-Nhsy which is 'Nubia'. The problem is that because the rival kingdom Ta-Seti originally lay in Ta-Nhsy there was obviously confusion between the rival kingdom of Ta-Sety Khast vs. the 1st nome Ta-Sety Niwt. Egypt's unification was not only political but religious in nature since it is the story of Kmt's founding gods or rather the followers who represented them-- the proto-dynastic kings expanding their polities and assimilating rivals. Many of these wars are poeticized and metaphorized with the kings as their patron gods waging war against enemy gods who were enemy kings. Once Kmt was unified under the sun god Re and sky god Heru (Horus), they went south to vanquish their opponents of Ta-Sety Khast. Again, this is NOT Ta-Sety Niut which was already part of Shemau. This is why in that poem that Doug cited, they translated Ta-Seti as 'Nubia' because that was the rival khast kingdom and NOT the 1st Nome. And once the Khastu Setiu were defeated, there were some who evaded capture and continued to conspire against Kmt. The Egyptian word for conspirators is 'uaua/wawa' hence Lower Nubia became known as Wawat! [/QB][/QUOTE]
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