Ferguson and mystical toponomy
Ferguson MysticaFerguson, Missouri (northeast St. Louis), sits precisely midway between Cairo, Illinois ("Little Egypt") and Hannibal, Missouri (the Hannibal name is related to Baal as well as the archetypal enemy of ancient Rome). Ferguson is also precisely in the middle of two alignments of Route 66, the I-270 frontage road to the north, and I-70 to the south. Ferguson is the only city on the Great River (the Mississippi River, which in Little Egypt lore is seen as symbolic of the Nile), thus situated. St.
