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6. To unite Upper and Lower Egypt into a single great county could not have been an easy task. What happens if you mix 'fire' and 'water'? The result will be devastating, mutual annihilation with nothing left.
 
The solution is therefore to keep them apart:

Space is Mother Nature's way of keeping things apart so they can recycle forever in Time.
 
In time it is done by inserting an interrex, a feeble substitute king, between 'fire' and 'water'. In the calendars it corresponds to 'one more', for instance in 14 * 26 + 1 = 365 or in 14 * 21 + 1 = 295.