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Setne I (Setne Khamwas and Naneferkaptah)

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Hiding is not enough: in both traditions the primal book is assigned a DEATHLESS GUARDIAN · a pair of appointed angels, an eternal serpent · and in both the deposit sits with respect to water (preserved through the flood / sunk beneath the river) rather than destroyed by it. The guardian never reads or takes the book; it only keeps it. Feeds the archive's serpent thread and canon finding 9 (the serpent examines and departs, never takes).

The book Thoth 'wrote with his own hand' lies underwater at Coptos in six nested boxes (iron, copper, juniper, ivory-and-ebony, silver, gold), ringed by 'six miles of serpents,' and 'there is an eternal serpent around this same box.'

set against 2 Enoch 33

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