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The Chamber of Secrets
2012
Overview
Ancient Egypt provides the curious case of a theology in which deep caverns play a central role, but without the presence of natural caves upon which theologians could draw for inspiration. Egyptian cosmology is filled with cave symbolism. For example, Egyptians believed that the life-giving annual flood, personified by the androgynous god Hapy, flowed forth from a cave located among the granite outcrops of the first cataract of the Nile (figure 7.1). Caves and grottoes play a central role in Egyptian solar cosmology and funerary theology, providing secretive, hidden realms where the divine was made manifest and the dead journeyed
