The poet Hesiod, shepherding sheep upon mount Helicon, is gifted the sacred laurel staff by the nine muses; a symbol of poetic authority. Apollo and Pegasus rest near the pool of Hippocrene.

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What exists physically, exists first in thought and feeling. There is no other rule.
-Egyptian Book of the Dead-

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Detail of a Kokhlidoi fresco depicting the Four Primordial Stars, painted for Fragments of the Past

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Horus, son of Isis and Osiris, made it his mission to revenge his father's murder by Seth and regain reign over lower Egypt.

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