Mysteries of Ancient Egypt with Dr. Kara Cooney
Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma
The Importance of the Sun in Kingship
The sun is associated with kingship in any culture. The Egyptians are taking the thing they're most afraid of, that monster, right? They're co-opting it, containing it, domesticating it and demonizing it. And then when they do that, they often add a human component to it. So my question is like, what's going on with cats? Because it seems like Egypt and cats?"
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