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Heritage of the Stars - by Deborah Houlding; Chapter 3 - Egyptian Deification of Time & Space (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Older authorities placed it at the 15th degree, so it is not beyond credibility that a symbolic association attached itself to the region that extended from the 15th degree of Libra, as the area of the Sun's seasonal 'death' at the Autumn Equinox. |
 | | The daily setting of the Sun, Moon and stars at the western horizon, led to that cardinal direction assuming a mythological connection with death, retreat and weakness. |
 | | The strength and permanence of their beliefs are shown by hieroglyphic writings on the meaning of the cardinal directions - and even intermediate directions such as north-west, north-east, etc., - being now five thousand years old, treasured as part of the oldest recorded literature in the world. |
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