I started this blog out by describing each constellation, somewhat through the Macedonian's (Greeks) point of view.
Their legends and myths change through each century and their rulers, and other factors.
- Now why did I go about it in this way, if I wanted to describe the ancient Egyptians point of view?
Simply because between these two Empires lies a truth, a distinct border between the 'old ways' and the new so-called 'modernized people', which we all descend from, as we also descend from the older ones of the 'older ways.'
Ancient Egypt could probably be called the last great civilization from the more ancient world. And through this great society, we have their surviving documents and monuments, which teach us much from a 'lost past.'
One thing which depicts the ?border-line? between the very ancient ones and the new world was the most basic to our nature, namely the writing systems, which became more like the Greeks.
But surely it must be the zodiac representation that is the defining border between them. For the Greeks changed this to the circle and inside they placed the symbols of the constellations. Where as the ancient Egyptians portrayed it in lines, just as they normally wrote. In those most ancient of days, all knew about the setting of the sun and the coming of the stars and the Lovely Moon, and much more.
I state that I believe that it is from the ancient Egyptians that the Greeks came to create their stories and legends about the constellation. Because in ancient Egypt they already had stories about the stars, they even gave them colors.
Upon the walls of their toms can be found; the names of the stars as just being a small part of their great understanding of both life and death. But there has not been found a star chart like we see in later Greek history, a circular one.
Other ancient cultures do have circular forms just like the Greeks came to have, but Egyptians wrote it different.
Their legends and myths change through each century and their rulers, and other factors.
- Now why did I go about it in this way, if I wanted to describe the ancient Egyptians point of view?
Simply because between these two Empires lies a truth, a distinct border between the 'old ways' and the new so-called 'modernized people', which we all descend from, as we also descend from the older ones of the 'older ways.'
Ancient Egypt could probably be called the last great civilization from the more ancient world. And through this great society, we have their surviving documents and monuments, which teach us much from a 'lost past.'
One thing which depicts the ?border-line? between the very ancient ones and the new world was the most basic to our nature, namely the writing systems, which became more like the Greeks.
Upon the walls of their toms can be found; the names of the stars as just being a small part of their great understanding of both life and death. But there has not been found a star chart like we see in later Greek history, a circular one.
Other ancient cultures do have circular forms just like the Greeks came to have, but Egyptians wrote it different.
They also have the 36 Decans in boats, and the heaven of Nut. The only place so fare known, where we find something from ancient Egypt, which look a little bit like the circular star chart from the Greeks time period, is in the Valley of the Kings.
One section of the tomb, gives illustrations which match the modern chart, which was to come later on.
This border gives clear evidence, that something major was happening behind the scenes in the days of Alexandria the great and his descendants.
The way that people 'saw' our universe was slowly changed, and subjects became separated, just as you see in the topic of Astrology vs. Astronomy - two sides of one coin. The creative force meets the scientific mind.
One section of the tomb, gives illustrations which match the modern chart, which was to come later on.
This border gives clear evidence, that something major was happening behind the scenes in the days of Alexandria the great and his descendants.
The way that people 'saw' our universe was slowly changed, and subjects became separated, just as you see in the topic of Astrology vs. Astronomy - two sides of one coin. The creative force meets the scientific mind.
Karima Lachtane
Published: 25.Jan. 2009