The Welcome to Spirits podcast, a boosy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore.

Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world.

I'm Amanda.

And I'm Julia. And I'm

Julia. And Amanda, welcome to the final episode of Denial isn't just a river in Egypt. It's what

we've been doing by keeping an Egyptian mythology series from you on Spirits Podcast by Spirits Podcast.

You know, it's been a long run out here on the Nile River, and it seemed appropriate to me to finish out this series on that Nile.

I love that. It is the defining feature. It is in our title, which thanks to Friend of the Pod, Yvonne, rudely laid off by the government coup here in the U.S.

And newly employed by Spirit's podcast to help us make all of our titles gorgeous and readable

and sexy.

You can now search your podcast feed for Nile and listen to them all at once.

Hell yeah.

Hell yeah.

And Amanda, I'm so excited because this week we are going to discuss several of the

gods who are associated with the Nile, which is obviously one of the most important aspects

of ancient Egyptian life. Because think about it. The Nile was, and in a lot of ways, still is,

this life-giving but also life-taking body of water.

And because the Egyptians relied heavily on the annual flooding of the Nile for the crops

and their fertility of the land, the ancient Egyptians saw the Nile as this complex, sometimes

frightening, sometimes awe-inspiring body of water.

Of course, you're going to have gods for that.

So when we are talking about the gods that we are discussing this episode, the gods of the Nile,

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