Nuns

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Nuns

There were nuns in ancient Egypt as well as in Peru and old Pagan Rome. They were the “virgin brides” of their respective (Solar) gods. Says Herodotus, “The brides of Ammon are excluded from all intercourse with men”, they are “the brides of Heaven”; and virtually they became dead to the world, just as they are now. In Peru they were “Pure Virgins of the Sun”, and the Pallakists of Ammon‐Ra are referred to in some inscriptions as the “divine spouses”. “The sister of Oun‐nefer, the chief prophet of Osiris, during the reign of Rameses II.,” is described as “Taia, Lady Abbess of Nuns” (Mariett e Bey) (TG).

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Shortly: There were nuns in ancient Egypt as well as in Peru and old Pagan Rome. They were the “virgin brides...