| Ras Kasaroun | |
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| Highest point | |
| Coordinates | 31°9′34.02″N 33°5′17.53″E / 31.1594500°N 33.0882028°E / 31.1594500; 33.0882028 |
| Geography | |
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Ras Kasaroun (Arabic: راس كسرون) or El-Kas (Arabic: القاس), also known as Casius Mons in Latin, or Kasion Oros (Ancient Greek: Κάσιον) 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". 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.
References
- "Carte geographique de l'Egypte et des pays environnans by Pierre Jacotin". PAThs – Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature. 1818.
- "TM Places". www.trismegistos.org. Retrieved 2023-03-24.
- Lane Fox 2009:253-56.
- "SOL Search". www.cs.uky.edu. Retrieved 2023-04-19.