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Worship of heavenly bodies. The worship of heavenly bodies is the veneration of stars (individually or together as the night sky), the planets, or other astronomical objects as deities, or the association of deities with heavenly bodies. In anthropological literature these systems of practice may be referred to as astral cults.
Biblical astronomy. Biblical Astronomy broadly encompasses the views expressed within the Biblical texts concerning the Earth's placement in the cosmos, the recognition of celestial bodies such as stars and planets, and the associated belief systems. The scriptural sources, particularly the poetic passages, offer limited and often enigmatic ...
In Egyptian mythology, the Milky Way was considered a pool of cow's milk. The Milky Way was deified as a fertility cow-goddess by the name of Bat (later on syncretized with the sky goddess Hathor). The astronomer Or Graur has suggested that the Egyptians may have seen the Milky Way as a celestial depiction of the sky goddess Nut.
Sistine Chapel, Vatican City. The Creation of the Sun, Moon and Plants (sometimes The Creation of the Sun, Moon and Vegetation or The Creation of the Sun and the Moon) is one of the frescoes from Michelangelo 's nine Books of Genesis scenes on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. It is the second scene in the chronological sequence on the ceiling ...
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature is a non-fiction book by C. S. Lewis. It was his last book and deals with medieval cosmology and the Ptolemaic universe. It portrays the medieval conception of a "model" of the world, which Lewis described as "the medieval synthesis itself, the whole organization of ...
Ilúvatar created Arda according to a flat Earth cosmology. This disc-like Arda has continents and the seas, and the moon and the stars revolve around it. Arda was created to be the "Habitation" (Ambar) for Elves and Men. [16] This world was lit by two lamps created by the Valar: Illuin ('Sky-blue') and Ormal ('High-gold').
St. Augustine (354-430) believed that the determinism of astrology conflicted with the Christian doctrines of man's free will and responsibility, and God not being the cause of evil, [1][2] but he also grounded his opposition philosophically, citing the failure of astrology to explain twins who behave differently although conceived at the same ...
Opora. In Greek and Roman mythology, Sirius[a] is the god and personification of the star Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, also known as the Dog Star, the most prominent star in the constellation Canis Major (the Greater Dog). [1] In ancient texts, Sirius is portrayed as the scorching bringer of the summer heatwaves, who intensifies ...