Note 24 — V THE HYMN TO THE ATON
Reading edition
Egypt, essentially rainless, received its water from the Nile. Foreign lands, however, received water from rains, hence the reference to a “Nile in the sky.”
Reading edition
Egypt, essentially rainless, received its water from the Nile. Foreign lands, however, received water from rains, hence the reference to a “Nile in the sky.”