NATS 1745 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Celestial Pole, Nabta Playa, Duat
8 May 2017
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Mood stage: new mood you cant see it. Stages of understanding the sky: worship stage; Astronomical phenomena viewed as actions moons + warnings of g-ds -> myth based cosmetology: astronomy used for terrestrial purposes: Calendar agriculture, ritual timings, navigation: study sky to gain knowledge. Ancient egyptian cosmology: world has three parts. Flat earth surrounded by great ocean: above earth is atmosphere ended. Held up by 4 supports: beneath the earth. Duat - was the realm of the dead in ancient egyptian mythology. It was the realm of the deity osiris and the residence of other gods and supernatural beings. To the egyptians the underworld what very important. It contained things absent from visible world. Timeless universe always existed in this way. Universe + components were living entities personified by gods. Cosmology was mythological -> did not try to rationalize causes of earth.
