Hi cladking and Steve et al

cladking Wrote:
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> Most people would be amazed to know how few means
> there are for water to get upward. For the main
> part almost all water that moves up is through
> evaporation (discounting currents in bodies of
> water) which the pyramid builders well
> understood;
>
> 1140c. (he is dried) by the wind of the great
> Isis, together with (which) the great Isis dried
> (him) like Horus.
> ...
> 1146a. N. is the pouring down of rain; he came
> forth as the coming into being of water;
>
> In this utterance they describe the hydraulic
> cycle;
>
> 1146a. N. is the pouring down of rain; he came
> forth as the coming into being of water;
> 1146b. for he is the Nḥb-kȝ.w-serpent with the
> many coils;

Why does this make me think of an Archimedian screw?

Cheers!