“freedom” is the restoration of the individual to his home and to his inheritance. The Sumerian term for “freedom”, amargi, literally means: return to the bosom of the mother: ama (= mother) ar-gi4 (= return). Likewise, freedom is defined in Leviticus 25 as the return of each man to his property and to his family (v. 10). In Egypt, proclamation of “liberation” begins with the statement that the prisoners and the guilty ones are to return to their cities, their homes and their inheritance (see below,