Ras_Kouroun

Ras Kouroun

Ras Kouroun

Promontory in Egypt

For the other Mount Casius on the Mediterranean coast near Antioch, see Jebel Aqra.

Ras Kasaroun (Arabic: راس كسرون)[1] or El-Kas (Arabic: القاس), also known as Casius Mons in Latin, or Kasion Oros (Ancient Greek: Κάσιον)[2] to Greek geographers such as Herodotus (who considered it to mark the boundary between Egypt and Syria), is a small mountain and a former town near the marshy Lake Bardawil, the "Serbonian Bog" of Herodotus, where Zeus' ancient opponent Typhon was "said to be hidden".[3] Here, Greeks knew, Baal Sephon was worshipped.

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The sandy mount stands out about the flat landscape, though it is a mere 100 metres above the sea.

Its name is given to the Catholic titular see of Casius.

Like the other Mount Casius in Syria, it was historically associated with a shrine to Zeus, one of whose epithets was Kasios.

The saying "Kasiotic knot", which in Medieval Greek meant "someone who are crooked in their ways", comes from the town's name.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "Carte geographique de l'Egypte et des pays environnans by Pierre Jacotin". PAThs – Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature. 1818.
  2. [2]
    "TM Places". www.trismegistos.org. Retrieved 2023-03-24.
  3. [3]
    Lane Fox 2009:253-56.
  4. [4]
    "SOL Search". www.cs.uky.edu. Retrieved 2023-04-19.
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