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By Martini Fisher Posted on 20 Mar 202020 Feb 2021

Sol et Luna: Creation Myths of the Sun and the Moon

A solar creation myth from Japan contains a reference to a floating cloud in the midst of infinite space, before matter had taken any other form. This also nicely describes … Continue reading Sol et Luna: Creation Myths of the Sun and the Moon

Categories: mythologyTags: creation, creation myth, japanese mythology, legends, moon, myth, mythology, peruvian mythology, sun

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Granite statue depicting Ptolemy II in the traditional canon of ancient Egyptian art. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. c. 280 BC.

Cycles of nature were at the core of the ancient practice of divination to decipher the will of the gods. Many different methods of divination were practiced in antiquity, such as dream interpretations (oneiromancy), interpreting the entrails of slaughtered animals (haruspicy), and augury (ornithomancy) which interprets the movements and activities of birds. Augury in particular became famously influential in the Roman empire.

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