"Inundation" genre: Reggae
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	"I dreamed about the Inundation and the waters of re-creation."
	Story Behind the Song There were three seasons in the year of the Ancient Egyptians. The first of these seasons was Akhet, or the Inundation. The Inundation was a natural phenomenon that swelled the river Nile with rainwater from monsoons in Ethiopia, bringing life-giving water at the hottest time of year. It came every year in the burning days of mid-July, the Dog Days, when Sirius appeared above the horizon at the same time as the sun. The Nile, rising up, covered the plains with water nearly five feet deep for over six hundred miles, soaking the dry, cracked earth with rich, moist soil, and transforming Egypt into a sea, likened to the primordial waters of Nun. During the Inundation, the Egyptians went about on the Nile in boats of papyrus. It was a time for relaxation, for repairing tools or making new ones for the plowing that would come in the following season (Peret, or the Emergence), when the flood waters would recede and the land would emerge, enriched and ready for planting. The Inundation was a natural and predictable return of the forces that soften the hard, dry soil, enabling it to grow food for the next year. In the eyes of the Ancient Egyptians, the Inundation appeared to be a tangible sign of the divine activity which alone was capable of such a life-giving miracle. The Nile was thought to have two sources, one in Heaven and one in the Duat (the Other Side). The Inundation was a part of the great cycle of nature, of the principle of eternal return, the flow of natural fertility emerging from the underworld into this world, the upwelling of the power of the Duat into the world. Each year it recalled the mystery of the creation, when all existence suddenly emerged from the cosmic ocean by virtue of a single divine impulse. The Inundation was also the occasion of a national festival that brought Egyptians to the banks of the Nile into which they cast offerings of food and flowers. Lyrics Inundation I dreamed about the Inundation I dreamed about regeneration I dreamed about the Inundation And the waters of re-creation Summer days and the sun is strong Summer time and the days are long The ground is hard and the earth is dry Women stir and babies cry I dreamed about the Inundation I dreamed about regeneration I dreamed about the Inundation And the waters of re-creation Summer days and the sun is strong Summer time and the days are long People taking shelter from the sweltering heat The time is near for the cool and the sweet I dreamed about the Inundation I dreamed about regeneration I dreamed about the Inundation And the waters of re-creation Four days coming Dog star rising Sirius, Sirius, Sirius It was wet dream It was a wet scene And dreams flowed Dreams flowed And dreams flowed Dreams flowed

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