Geographic Distribution of Religious Centers in the U.S. These maps were generated from the listings in the Pluralism Project's Directory of Religious Centers and reflect the distributions as of August 2006. Click on the thumbnail to view a printable, full-size map in a new window. Interfaith: 604 Centers Jainism: 94 Centers Sikhism: 244 Centers Hinduism: 714 Centers Buddhism: 2150 Centers Islam: 1583 Centers NOTES ON EGYPTIAN RELIGION AND ASTRONOMY Inscriptions and pictorial representations inside tombs give clues to the mythological context in which the pyramids were built, as well as to the meanings of architectural features. They contain allusions to celestial bodies. Here I briefly describe the salient points of Egyptian religion (to the best of my knowledge) as backgound to a discussion of the ideas that may have motivated the builders, beginning with some notes on the geographical and cultural context. Overview Egypt was organised in the name of religion and the figurehead of pharaoh, the 'living god', represented a focus of contact with the divine for the whole population. Origins According to the accepted view, civilisations are made possible by settled agriculture producing food for more people than those necessary to work the land, thus promoting the division of labour and the establishment of heirarchies. Egyptians claimed that their civilisation had been founded by divine ancestors. Gods of the early Old Kingdom
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The strange star that has serious scientists talking about an alien megastructure A long exposure image showing an airplane passing in the sky during the Perseids meteor shower over the remains of a centuries old Christian basilica near the town of Pirdop, Bulgaria, early on Aug. 12. (Nikolay Doychinov/AFP/Getty Images) “It was kind of unbelievable that it was real data,” said Yale University astronomer Tabetha Boyajian. “We were scratching our heads. She was talking to the New Scientist about KIC 8462852, a distant star with a very unusual flickering habit. Boyajian wrote up a paper on possible explanations for the star’s bizarre behavior, and it was published recently in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. To Wright, it looked like the kind of star he and his colleagues had been waiting for. Aliens. Or, to be more specific, something built by aliens — a “swarm of megastructures,” as he told the Atlantic, likely outfitted with solar panels to collect energy from the star. [No, we haven’t discovered alien megastructures around a distant star]
Ancient Egypt: the Mythology and egyptian myths Planet Tozer Creative Review commissioned photographer Jason Tozer to shoot these pictures on behalf of Sony using its new Alpha 350 digital camera. They are, in fact, all common-or-garden soap bubbles, shot in-camera. We'll be revealing more on how Tozer obtained these stunning images later in the week. The full series is shown below and to see them at a larger size simply click on each image. Alternatively you can check out the Flickr set we've created for the project at CR's photostream page. Click here for more details on the new Sony Alpha D-SLR. For more of Tozer's work, see jasontozer.com
L'Egypte au temps des pharaons / Mythologie Les quatre fils d'Horus Le sommet des quatre canopes étaient orné de l'effigie des fils d'Horus. En effet, sous la forme d'Haroeris, il eut 4 fils, identifiés aux âmes du dieu. Associés à une déesse et à un point cardinal, ils étaient les protecteurs des organes momifiés. protégeait les poumons et était associé à Nephtys et au Nord.
Evidence for God from Science Mythologie égyptienne / La création du monde 2° Autres cosmogonies – Comme nous l’avons évoqué précédemment, les mythes de la création du monde variaient d’une cité à l’autre. a) Cosmogonie memphite : A Memphis, les prêtres de la cité érigèrent leur divinité tutélaire, Ptah, en démiurge. Parvenant au cours de l’Antiquité à rivaliser avec la mythologie héliopolitaine, il est intéressant de remarquer que la cosmogonie memphite est sans doute la genèse la plus simple à comprendre de nos jours. Stèle dédiée au dieu Ptah, XX° dynastie, vers 1100 avant Jésus Christ, musée du Vatican, Rome. A l’origine des temps, nous retrouvons Noun, qui donna naissance à Ptah. C’est ainsi que Ptah aurait donné naissance aux divinités composant l’Ennéade. La cosmogonie memphite, papyrus rédigé en démotique, I° siècle avant Jésus Christ, Neues museum, Berlin. b) L’Ogdoade d’Hermopolis : à Hermopolis, les prêtres de la cité voyaient la genèse d’une manière sensiblement différente, même si le Noun était une fois de plus à l’origine de la création.
This Year’s Finest Conjunction: Venus and Jupiter Two brightest planets Venus and Jupiter come as close as a third of a degree apart as seen from North America. It will be easy to spot them in the western sky as no other celestial body will outshine the beautiful tandem when the sun and the moon are down. “To the eye they’ll look like a double star,” said Kelly Beatty, a senior editor at Sky & Telescope magazine. “Anyone who hasn’t glanced at the evening sky for a while will be surprised by how dramatically tight the pairing is.” The closest conjunction will happen on June 30th and July 1st, 2015. Star Walk is available worldwide on iOS, Android, Kindle and Windows Mobile.
Françoise Dunand, La religion égyptienne Des monuments admirablement préservés, des textes de mieux en mieux déchiffrés et une multiplicité d'images : on pourrait penser que la religion égyptienne n'a plus de secrets. Pourtant, de ses débuts, nous ne savons à peu près rien. Lorsque l'Égypte entre dans l'histoire, sous la forme d'un état centralisé, dirigé par des rois au pouvoir absolu, son système religieux est déjà en place. Ce système va perdurer pendant plus de trois millénaires, comme nous l'explique aujourd'hui Françoise Dunand qui a publié notamment, aux éditions Colin en 1991, Dieux et hommes en Égypte. Dès l'origine, le pharaon est le responsable du culte… Sous l'Ancien Empire, ses rapports étroits avec les dieux sont évidents : les statues de Chephren, retrouvées dans son temple funéraire à Giza, montrent le faucon Horus posé sur sa nuque et l'entourant de ses ailes, expression de la protection divine exercée sur la fonction royale. Des dieux sous forme de faucon, de vautour, de cobra… Un éventuel monothéisme ?
Arabic phrasebook The following phrasebook deals mostly with Modern Standard Arabic. See the Lebanese Arabic phrasebook, Jordanian Arabic phrasebook or the Egyptian Arabic phrasebook for Arabic dialects relating to those regions/countries. Arabic is the fourth most widely-spoken language in the world and is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. It is spoken in many popular destinations in North Africa and the Middle East. Arabic is written from right to left. For communication purposes while travelling and using this guide, it is very important to note that Arabic is divided into Classical Arabic (mostly used in print) and Colloquial Arabic. Pronunciation guide[edit] Arabic pronunciation varies widely from place to place, almost to the extent of making it unintelligible even for native Arabic speakers. Standard Arabic will be understood by most educated people, as it is what they hear frequently in news casts. As a general rule: . , or kh while using the voice box. Phrase list[edit] Please.
The Egyptian Tree of Life The ancient Egyptian Tree of Life was the Ficus Sycomoros, a fruit bearing fig and almost certainly the same as determined by the Hebrews for their Garden of Eden account, given the handy proximity of fig leafs in that version of events. The tree and it's fruit was particularly sacred within the Cult of Hathor and is often seen in tombs in the context of providing nourishment for the dead, thus it had association with eternal life. It is the Golden One, the Lady of Drunkenness, of Music, of Dance, Of Frankincense, of the Crown, of Young Women, Whom men acclaim because they love her! It is the gold of the divine entities, who comes forth at Her season We propitiate Your Majesty every day. Hathor is understood to be the deity who welcomes the worthy dead, offers them refreshments of food and drink, and leads the way into the blessed beyond. All hail, jubilation to You, O Golden One, Sole ruler, serpent of the supreme lord himself! Egyptians considered the fig a delicacy.