Ras Kouroun

Ras Kasaroun
Highest point
Coordinates	31°9′34.02″N 33°5′17.53″E / 31.1594500°N 33.0882028°E / 31.1594500; 33.0882028
Geography
Ras Kasaroun Egypt

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.

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]

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This page was last edited on 6 December 2023, at 20:44