JUPITERASC
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5000 years ago
was around the beginning of the Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt.
That's when the Tropical Age of Scorpio became effective.
Maybe
they confused it
with tropical Virgo
which is earthy and dry?
Does this sound reasoning include the actual existence
and influence of gods, goddesses, and mythological creatures
as depicted by the Ancient cultures?
literary proof that the ancient Egyptians
associated the terrestrial Nile with a celestial Nile
is supported by the Ptolemaic-era “Book of the Faiyum,”
a mythologized map of the Faiyum region
where deities are paired with their cult centers
and specific localities are linked with cosmic equivalents (Tait, 2003).
This notion is reaffirmed by a hymn to the sun disk Aten
from the 18th dynasty pharaoh, Akhenaten
which makes reference to a “Nile in the sky”:
“For you have set a Nile in the sky, that it may descend for them
and make waves upon the mountains like the sea” (Simpson, 1973).
Not only did the ancient Egyptians align their temples to important stars
but perhaps they followed a guiding principle
when drawing the boundaries of the districts
and establishing the cult centers of the Egyptian pantheon
and thereby creating the Nile in the image of the heavens.