Show father nile long held sacred by egyptians to the ancient egyptian the annual flooding and fertilizing of their coun arv by the river was a special gift of the gods if indeed father nile ere not himself a god of special beneficence to the people who dwell on his shores all their wealth all their comfort all their precious water came from the ale and they worshiped it as their dearest benefactor when a pharaoh taw in a vision tat and lean cattle rising up from the sacred nile it was a portent not by any means to be als regarded when ahe daughter of another pharaoh found in the nile a baby floating in just such a boat of papyrus reeds daubed with bitumen or inside mud as ferryman ferrymen ferry men used of a size for crossing the river it seemed to her pious and maternal mind that this might be a special sift from father nile himself per haps it was meant to be a special blessing to the royal court even though the little one had its origin in a hebrew homel montreal family herald |