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The tale of the rex Nemorensis appears in a number of ancient sources.Ovid gives a poetic account of the priesthood of Nemi [4] noting that the lake of Nemi was "sacred to antique religion"; its priest "holds his reign by strong hands and fleet feet, and dies according to the example he set himself."
The word nemesis originally meant the distributor of fortune, neither good nor bad, simply in due proportion to each according to what was deserved. [citation needed] Later, Nemesis came to suggest the resentment caused by any disturbance of this right proportion, the sense of justice that could not allow it to pass unpunished. [citation needed]
The cult of Nemesis at Rhamnous came to a formal end with the decree of the Eastern Roman emperor Arcadius in 382 AD that ordered the destruction of any surviving polytheist temples in the countryside, [11] but the remains of the sanctuary and the fortress were never entirely buried and have remained visible ever since.
Nemesis is a hypothetical red dwarf [1] or brown dwarf, [2] originally postulated in 1984 [3] to be orbiting the Sun at a distance of about 95,000 AU (1.5 light-years), [2] somewhat beyond the Oort cloud, to explain a perceived cycle of mass extinctions in the geological record, which seem to occur more often at intervals of 26 million years.
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Apep below the barque of Ra with seven knives, Book of the Dead of Amenemsaouf, 21st Dynasty, Louvre Museum, Paris The hieroglyph for Apep's name showing a serpent stabbed with five knives, Temple of Edfu , Ptolemaic period