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Bosporus or one of the Aegean Islands.

"Geb, who presided over


the territorial dispute, decreed that the two lands should be divided
equally between Horus and Seth. Horus was bequeathed the
governorship of Lower Egypt while Seth was appointed ruler of
Upper Egypt/' Note that the traditional previous area of Horus had
been southern Egypt. VVeche says that Seth's followers displaced
Horus to the north. The High Priests of Ptah of the new northern
capital Memphis devised The Memphite Theology (i.e. the
theology of the Egyptian Delta region, Memphis was near Cairo),
with the god Ptah as its central deity. Ptah gave life to all things
through his divine speech, or logos. The characteristic Ennead
features of Ptah are the tongue, lips and teeth giving rise to all
things, whereas those of Amun-Re (Ra) were his fingers and
semen. Ptah transmits life by thinking and commanding.192
In terms of the three social divisions reconstructed for PIE society,
the god of the followers of Seth, Amun-Re (Ra the sun god), had
essential qualities of creation associated with fertility (semen) and
handiwork (fingers), which we would probably classify as showing
association with the third PIE fertility/ agricultural function: the
Vanir/Devas. On the other hand, Ptah, the god of 1 lorus'
followers, bestowed creative activity through his lips and teeth,
i.e., by thinking and speaking.193 We would associate these
attributes with the PIE first class of priests and kings: with the
Aesir/Asuras living in "lower Egypt", which would be the
lowlands and northern coast of the Black Sea Basin. Seth, on the
other hand, was granted "upper Egypt", or control of the Bosporus
complex and its environs before the myths were exported to
historical Egypt. Thus, the royal brothers Seth and Osiris (with his
son Horus) are perhaps associated with distinct identifiable
elements of our reconstructed PIE society. This strongly suggests a
cultural mixed marriage between PIE social functions within the
ruling household. Notably, Geb (agricultural goddessworshipping
Vanir/ Deva) was of the earth while his bride Nut (pastoral sun-
worshipping Aesir/Asura/De Danaan) was a sky goddess.
Assuming that the Fomorians imposed a system of matrilineal
ascendancy to the kingship (through the female lineage) upon the
otherwise patrilineal De Danaan, an aspiring fertility class
contender for the throne would have to marry

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