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Date Posted: 05:42:14 10/16/08 Thu
Author: Ian
Author Host/IP: cpc1-darl6-0-0-cust743.midd.cable.ntl.com / 82.1.142.232
Subject: Cycles of Life

One of things that surely attract us to Ancient Egypt is the richness of it's Religion and Cults. Tied to the rising and falling of the Nile, father of Rivers. We can sense that this gave an ordered rythmn to life. Their feeling of who they were, where they might possibly be going spiritually were naturally bound to the natural cycles they observed, of birth, life, death and rebirth. The Nile and Sun, marked the seasons of change, the passing of time, and of course they seemed endless. Of course, modern man has seen to change the Nile, and the very essence of Ancient Egypt has been lost, perhaps forever, but man made structures do last forever, given enough time even the Great Pyramid will crumble into dust.

In the West now, we are governed by the clock more than the natural ebb and flow of the Solar and Lunar years. Are we poorer for this ?

Ian

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