Christiaan Barnard
Bouto is the name in the ancient Egypt of current the Such el-Farâˁûn (litt. the hill of the Pharaons ), pertaining to the sixth names Low-Egypt, “the mountain bull”. It was a capital of pre and proto-dynastic ().
Ouadjet (or Ouadjyt) was the protective guardian goddess of Bouto and its area. Protective cobra of the red crown of Low-Egypt, it was a very important symbol of the sovereignty of the Pharaon on “the Two Grounds” (south and north).
The town of Bouto, very old, consisted of two cities, EP and EPD which faced, separated by one of the arms of the Delta of the Nile. These two twin cities were the residence of the Hearts of EP, kinds of divine ancestors who with the Hearts of Nekhen (Hiérakonpolis) accompanied the king and the gods in their processions.
The principal sanctuary dedicated to Ouadjet is in ruin and present today some vestiges, statues and elements of architecture, the majority dating from the Nouvel Empire.
In the mythology osirienne, it is Ouadjet which protected the young child from Isis and Osiris, Horus, against the anger of Seth. The city was a stage important symbolic system in the funerary rites of which a representation was deposited in the tomb of Pharaon. The shape of its primitive sanctuary quickly symbolized the standard temple of Low-Egypt and remained to us just like that of High-Egypt to Hiérakonpolis.
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