Sanatoria

Plan of the Sanatoria at Dendera
Source for the map: Nunn (J. F.), Ancient
Egyptian Medicine, University of Oklahoma
Press, 1996, P.111.

Sanatoria was essentially the very ancient close of a medical (or magical) clinic (with hospital properties), where the sick or injured could come to seek therapeutic from the gods and maybe, the wisdom of the priests and scholars of the temple. Regrettably, few much structures remain, though there are ruins at various temples that are thought to perchance be sanatorias (accepting one at Hatshepsut's temple on the West Bank at Thebes (contemporary Luxor). Nevertheless, in the Graeco-Roman Period temple at Dendera dedicated to Hathor we do find a clear instance of this structure. In fact, that sanatoria was plausibly very great and it broken a reputation for healing, getting people from great aloofnesses due to Hathor's report as a goddess of pity.

The sanatoria at Dendera consisted of many chambers where the sick rested while they expected the dreams that might bring divine prescriptions for their recovery. Within this sanatoria was a central courtyard where temple priests would pour water finished statues that had been sliced with magical texts, allowing the magic to pass into the water. This was then given to the unstable for drinking or bathing.

It is entirely potential that the Sanatoria may have been part linked with the "house of life", for there we get the study of music in ancient Egypt.

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Achaemenians

Iran in the age of Achaemenian Dynasty
from ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA

Achaemenians or Achaemenids was a royal  house  of  Persia.  This  dynasty  of  Persia  (contemporary Iran)  ruled  Egypt  as  the  Twenty-seventh  Dynasty  (525-404  B.C.E.)  and  as  the  thirty-basic  dynasty (343-332 B.C.E.).  The  Achaemenians  were  descendants  of  Achaemenes,  the  ruler  of  a  liege  kingdom  in  the  Median Empire  (858-550  B.C.E.).  Cyrus the Great (590-529 B.C.E.), a related of the dynastys founder, overturned the Median line ruling Persia and expanded his control of connected lands. His son, Cambyses, taken Egypt in 525 B.C.E. The  Achaemenians  taken:  Darius I, who  came from a alternative branch of the royal line; Xerxes I; Artaxerxes I Longimanus; Xerxes II; Darius II Nothus; Artaxerxes II Memnon;  Artaxerxes III Ochus Arses; and Darius III Codomanus,  who  fell  before  the  regular armies  of Alexander III the Great about 330 B.C.E.

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Kebawet

Kebawet was an early goddess in Egypt, worshiped only locally and disappearing as the divinities of the land assumed  roles  in  the  government  and  in  daily  life, Kebawet was visited the goddess of cold water libations, an  factor  taken  vital  for  paradise.  She  was  thus role  of  the  mortuary rituals, representing  desired properties of Amenti in the West.

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