Article: BRAZIL: CARNIVAL COMES FROM EGYPT.

According to anba: Four thousand years before the birth of Jesus Christ, the populations that lived close to the Nile gathered to sing and dance by bonfires and celebrate the arrival of the season considered good for planting foods: summer. The festival was offered to Apis, bull worshipped as god by the Egyptians, and Isis, considered the mother-goddess. It was the season when the floodwaters receded and the riverbanks were left uncovered and fertile for agriculture. The feast that the agriculture population held didn't have samba or elaborated parade cars, but is considered the origin of carnival. Defending this thesis is the researcher Hiram Ara?jo, director of the ...

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