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IN a recent number of the Bulletin de l'Institut Françis d'Archéologie Orientale (cxii.) of, Cairo, M. Georges Daressy, one of the foremost among French Egyptologists, treats of the knowledge of the constellations in ancient Egypt. His article is entitled “L'Egypte Celeste,” by which words he means the duplication of the geography of the Nile valley into the sky, for the priests mentally projected another Egypt into the northern heavens. By a kind of symbolic celestial geography the daily solar journey was considered as a descent or voyage of the sun upon a river, the duplicate of the Nile, but situate in the firmament.
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OFFORD, J. Egyptian Astronomy and the Zodiac . Nature 98, 7–8 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/098007a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/098007a0