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Query: 10. Social Justice Sanctified, From Inanna and Nanshe to Nemesis{{Article buttons|override=The Creation of Order/Winter: The Archaic Order in Motion and Its Collapse/10. Social Justice Sanctified, From Inanna and Nanshe to Nemesis|DeepArea=The Creation of Order/Winter: The Archaic Order in Motion and Its Collapse/10. Social Justice Sanctified, From Inanna and Nanshe to Nemesis}}
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[Omitted text: Astronomy was a key to sanctity. Egypt’s sed festival was named specifically for the star-covered garment worn by the pharaoh for his coronation (Bleeker[1] 1967; see also Griffiths[2] 1955). It had four threads, representing the four directions and thereby making the pharaoh ruler of the four quarters.]

Sun-gods almost universally were associated with overseeing honest weights and measures, fair prices, fines and punishments, the supervision of commerce, and, on the highest plane, social justice and equity. After all, it was the sun’s movement through the seasonal solstices and equinoxes—and later the 12-month zodiac—that divided the year into fractional periods, which were reflected in ration-weights and measures, tribal divisions, and so forth as described in the preceding chapters. The sun-god’s abstract social function was depicted as being that of measurer, apportioner, and lawgiver, that is, ruler in both senses of the term.

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Astronomy was a key to sanctity. Egypt’s sed festival was named specifically for the star-covered garment worn by the pharaoh for his coronation (Bleeker[3] 1967; see also Griffiths[4] 1955). It had four threads, representing the four directions and thereby making the pharaoh ruler of the four quarters.]

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  1. ↑ C.J. Bleeker, Egyptian Festivals (Leiden: 1967).
  2. ↑ F. Gwyn Griffiths, “The Costume and Insignia of the King in the Sed Festival,” The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 41 (1955).
  3. ↑ C.J. Bleeker, Egyptian Festivals (Leiden: 1967).
  4. ↑ F. Gwyn Griffiths, “The Costume and Insignia of the King in the Sed Festival,” The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 41 (1955).