The Return Of The Muse

I’ve remarked in the past that it was always very difficult for ancient humans to survive on Mercury. It was very hot there (during the daytime) despite the fact that it was sheltered from the sun by a dust canopy, and had a breathable atmosphere. The ancient Egyptians first traveled there around 1600-1500 BC on wooden ships that they purchased from Mediterranean merchants. They tried sailing in papyrus ships first, but these caught on fire from the sun’s rays.

As I noted before, the ancient egyptians had to migrate around the planet during the daytime in order to survive. Thus they had to do a complete circuit once every 160 Earth days or so. This is why they rarely built cities near the equator until about 300 BC. By that time they had learned to dig so deep as to survive the sunlight during the daytime.

But at first migration was the only way to survive. Some of Mercury’s earliest pharoahs found this out. At that time the Sun was the Egyptian’s most revered god. Thus, in order to prove their sacredness, several kings decide to wait for the sun to rise instead of fleeing with the others. Six generations of pharoahs died this way. One managed to survive in a cave-but just barely. There is some dispute among scholars as to whether or not he really stayed there, or he just migrated away and came back before everyone else did.

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