The great historical maces, and the irrigation works, had been developed under the Scorpion king of the Aunu, and both may have originated much earlier. "Some of the most obvious public works of the Ist dynasty were the carrying on of earlier undertakings.
By the end of the dynasty, the two scepters were "united in peace" by Kho-sekhemui". The IInd dynasty came to terms with the earlier Aunu people, and the first king took the name Hetep-sekhemui, "peace of the two powers." By the middle of the dynasty, the Aunu people began to control the rule, and Set appears on the royal name instead of Horus. They made the earliest attempts at writing, for the whole Egyptian tradition attributes this art to Thoth, the great Hermes an Anu like Osiris, who is called Onian in Chapter XV of The Book of the Dead and in the Texts of the Pyramids.
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They knew how to use metals, at least elementary metals. They evidently knew the crafts necessary for any civilization and were familiar with the tools those trades required. I would add almost all the philosophical systems then known and still called Egyptian. To this people we can attribute, without fear of error, the most ancient Egyptian books, The Book of the Dead and the Texts of the Pyramids, consequently, all the myths or religious teachings. "These Anu were agricultural people, raising cattle on a large scale along the Nile, shutting themselves up in walled cities for defensive purposes. The subject ramifies too doubtfully if we include all single-pillar names, but looking for the Aunu, written with the three pillars, we find that they occupied Southern Egypt and Nubia, and the name is also applied in Sinai and Libya. Besides these types, belonging to the north and east, There is the aboriginal race of the Anu, or Aunu, people (written with three pillars), who became a part of the historic inhabitants. Petrie, excavations at Nagada and Ballas in Upper Egypt nearly 100 years ago unearth nearly 2200 ancient graves. Petrie, famously known as "The Father of Pre-history". Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) in the early temple at Abydos underneath the dynastic temple.
The "Tera-neter" tile is predynastic being found by British Egyptologist W.M. The dispute is settled by their father, Shu who advises that Nut gives birth to the stars each time so they might live. In the cenotaph of Seti I at Abydos, we find a text reporting a quarrel between Geb and Nut because she is swallowing their children, the stars. The text labeled Dd through FFf explains migratory birds and their nests. These captions tells us the decans work and their periodic invisibilitey, including thier transit through the meridian. A list of decans that may orginate in the Middle Kingdom are provided in Text S through X. They have no bounaries or cardinal directions. For example Text L provides a definition of the "Far regions of the sky", that are in the primeval darkness and waters, not touched by the sun. Neugebaum set out and coded the various captions within the depiction. The brief captions augment this understanding and are distributed over the entire scene, describing its detail as well as the actions of the sun god, the decans and other divine beings. The book itself is intended to provide both a topography of the sky and greater understanding of the sun's daily course. The captions on the scenes are also accompanied by a longer appended text. Other motifs within the scene includes several sun disks, a winged scarab in front of the knees of the goddess, a vulture atop the heraldic plant (lotus flower)of Upper Egypt behind her legs, and nest of migratory birds next to her arms. Interesting, in the tomb of Seti I, she is oriented correctly for the swallowing and birth of the sun, but not in tomb of Ramesses IV. Nut is shown as a woman supported by God Shu who holds her body aloft. The commentary from the Roman Period was published by H.O. These, and some investigations that followed, were all from the versibauer on found in the tomb (KV2) of Ramesses IV, for the Osireion in Abydos, for it had not been discovered at that point. It was Jean-Francois Champollion and Hippolito Rosellini who published the earliest drawing of the representation of the sky goddess. The longer appended text that accompanies the captions was reproduced in the Papyrus Carlsberg in Demotic script. The only other evidence of this book is a commentary written in the Roman Period, and an incomplete version in the tomb of Mutirdis (TT410) dating from the 26 Dynasty. There are exanples in the cenotaph of Seti I at Abydos and the tomb of Ramheesses IV, through the latter is abbrieviated. We have a few examples of the Book of Nut.
There are brief captions that seems to overwhelmed by the huge image of the sky. This book itself is pictured in nature, and resembles to some degree the Book of the Heavenly Cow.