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Egypt
2012
Overview
Egyptian cosmology is significant both as a study in itself and in view of its significant impact on later Western worldviews, especially in relation to its notions of a cosmos struggle between light and darkness, and elaborate views on the soul’s ascent to the stars, including a judgment of the dead.² Merged with Babylonian astral divination and Greek philosophy, Egyptian spirituality gave rise to the Western-Islamic-Indian tradition of astrology. If there is a single theme that lies at the heart of Egyptian spiritual astronomy, it is of the sun in its splendor as an image of monarchy and, in its
Publisher
NYU Press,New York University Press
Subject
ISBN
9780814717134, 0814717136
