Thinis is believed to have been an ancient Egyptian capital city in Upper Egypt. In Manetho's chronological list, Thinis is attributed to being the home of the First and Second Dynastic kings, though no proof of this has been found. The location of the ancient city of Thinis is unknown, but there is the possibility it was located near or under the modern town of Girga. Map of Ancient Egypt Monumental Statue of Pharaoh. ... Manetho or Manethon of Sebennytos, (ca. ...
In ancient Egypt the tuft of papyrus was the coat of arms or symbol of the Northern Kingdom.
of Egypt) and often wore a double crown consisting of the white crown of the South and the red crown of the North; the arms of the United Kingdom were formed by a union of the lotus and the papyrus, the emblems of the two countries.
That ancient population of Egypt, referred to in later texts as the "Horus-worshippers", have recently emerged from the mythical obscurity to which their kings have been relegated before the days of Manetho, who knows them as the xxx, "the shades", i.e.
Certainly the predynastic inhabitants of Upper Egypt worshipped a composite animal as the cult object of the god Set, and the reverencing of the ram or goat, which was common in all periods of Egyptian religion, had its origin at this time.
Therefore, Amenhotep IV announced that Amon and all the other gods of Egypt, along with their ceremonies, were merely vulgar and empty idolatry and that such worship was now to be forbidden.
Then he moved the capital city of Egypt from Thebes and constructed a new capital at Akhetaton (the City of Aton), because he believed Thebes was unclean due to all its past idolatry.
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