Tag: Pyramid Texts
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Ritual Heavenly Ascents
Some priests, initiates and believers in the ancient world had visions and practiced ritual ascents to their gods. These ritual ascents were made by pagans, Christians and Jews alike. By the Roman era, they usually involved complex rituals and magical glyphs and passwords that had to be presented to the archons (a Greek word for…
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The World Axis as the Conduit Between Heaven and Earth
There’s a long and ancient tradition of religious belief in the world axis as a conduit between the sky and the earth, and the polar region of the sky as being a gateway to the divine realm. This belief goes back at least 4500 years, probably even longer. The ancient Egyptians believed that the soul…
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Ancient Cosmology
The first key to understanding ancient religion is realizing that the ancients had a vastly different view of the universe to ourselves. The earliest civilizations believed in a flat earth which was either a circle or a square, depending on the tradition. Above the earth, the heavens / sky was seen as being a dome.…
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