Thoth Astrology: Time, Astronomy and the Astrological Priests - Sky Watching in Ancient Egypt 

Thoth Astrology: Time, Astronomy and the Astrological Priests - Sky Watching in Ancient Egypt.
The priests of Thoth were the Astronomers of ancient Egypt. Thoth, Time, Astronomy and the Astrological Priests were engaged in Sky Watching in Ancient Egypt. They were astrologer priests, but they did not predict the future; their focus was time. The primary concern of the Egyptian culture was to preserve and transmit a sense of Ma'at, or cosmic order, which was intimately related to celestial cycles: sunrise and sunset, the succession of hours, days, months and years, and the appearance of key stars.
The astrologer priests fixed the dates of religious festivals and determined the hours of the night. The temple astronomers did this by watching the stars and observing the conjunctions and risings of the Sun, Moon, and planets, as well as the phases of the moon.
The cosmos gives the order, and order transforms space into sacred space. First of all, the cosmos provides orientation. A privileged axis, the axis Mundi, springs naturally from the fact that the stars rotate around the celestial pole. This privileged direction is associated with the sun at the culmination to the south. To the east and to the west, the direction can be found connecting the rising and setting points of the sun or of a star over a flat horizon. In short, the ‘‘world of man’’ is naturally divided into four equal quarters in accordance with the celestial cycles.
A major Egyptian myth surrounds the Sun’s trek across the sky. They believed that the Sun goes into the Duat at sunset, not the underworld but rather cosmic space, and spent the night going from east to west. Re, the sun god, joined Osiris, who was known as the lord of eternal life, to become young and be born again at dawn. In Egyptian minds, Re was not a physical manifestation of the sun. He is often described as travelling across the sky in the sun boat.
The Moon, Mercury, and Venus were defenders of the Sun. They were associated with gods Thoth, Seth, and Osiris, respectively, and were thought to “ determine Re’s course, to repel Re’s archenemy Apep, and to restore and renew the sun god himself. Similar to Re, Thoth, Seth, and Osiris are not the Moon, Venus, or Mercury physically. Rather, the planets represented the gods.
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