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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Canopus
		Two miles east of Canopus was the famous heathen temple of Manouthin, afterwards destroyed by monks, and a church on the same spot dedicated to the Evangelists.
		Cyril of Alexandria solemnly transported the relics of the holy martyrs Cyrus and John into the church, which became an important place of pilgrimage.
		Canopus formed, with Menelaus and Schedia, a see subject to Alexandria in Aegyptus Prima; it is usually called Schedia in the "Notitiae episcopatuum".
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03297b.htm (364 words)

	85.06.07: Egyptian Tomb Art: Expressions of Religious Beliefs
		Early scholars thought that jars with humanheaded stoppers were proof of the existence of Canopus, pilot of Menelaus, buried at Canopus, Egypt.
		Canopus had been worshipped locally in the form of a jar with a human head and a swollen body.
		Upper Egypt is actually located in southern Egypt, but is so named because it is nearer the source of the Nile, which flows from south to north.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1985/6/85.06.07.x.html (6559 words)

	AMMON - LoveToKnow Article on AMMON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		His consort was sometimes called Amaune (feminine'of Amun), but more usually Mut, " mother ": she was human-headed, wearing the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt, and their son was Khons (Chon or Chons), a lunar god, represented as a youth wearing the crescent and disk of the moon.
		The cult of the supreme god spread throughout Egypt and was carried by the Egyptian conquerors into other lands, Syria, Ethiopia and Libya, and was accepted by the natives both in Ethiopia and in the Libyan cases, where civilization was low and Egyptian influence permanent.
		Such was its reputation among the Greeks that Alexander journeyed thithers after the battle of Issus, and during his occupation of Egypt, in order to be acknowledged the son of the god.
	www.1911ency.org /A/AM/AMMON.htm (820 words)

	ancient egypt city (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The past of Egypt is truly captured in the words of Omm Sety and the photography of...
		This was the capital of Egypt during Dynasties XXII and XXIII.
		Cairo, the capital of Egypt, is the largest city in Africa with a population of well over 15 million people.
	www.ancient-web-resources.com /top_10_websites/ancient_egypt_city.html (2242 words)

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