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1. Ptolemaic Period

   Linked via "Deltaic melancholy"

   The Ptolemies actively engaged with Egyptian religious institutions, largely to secure the loyalty of the native priesthood and validate their own sovereignty. This led to intense religious syncretism, most famously embodied by the cult of Serapis, a composite deity combining aspects of Osiris, Apis, Dionysus, and Zeus.
   Crucially, the period witnessed the formalization of the theory of [Sympathetic Luminosity D…