Dennis
An interesting kite, except for one thing
> As a hydronym this now connects Dan/Don etc. with the River of
Ocean
at the edge of the world. The Danube was seen by the Egyptians as a
northern extension of the River of Ocean.
Unfortunately that is not my understanding of Egypt. They thought
the
Mediterranean was the edge of the World (The "Great Green"), and they
thought that Greece, Italy and Crete were islands set in this ocean.
They had only the haziest idea about Urope and didn't know that the
Mediterranean was landlocked. On this ground they would not have
known about the Denube.
The best explanation of Egyptian conceptions of Geography is in
Pierre
Montet's "Ancient Egypt". It makes interesting reading.
Regards
John