Evershed, M. A. (Orr) · London : Gall & Inglis · leaf 76
er heavenly door, or the sunset mountain,at night. The similarity to these Babylonian ideas of theHebrew firmament, the waters above the firma-ment, and the fountains of the great deep, in thebook of Genesis,^ and Ezekiels Sheol in the netherparts of the earth, ^ has often been noted. To sum up :—… … The Boat of the ^iun travelling over the sky.From an ancient Egyptian papyrus. [To face p. h6. The recumbent figure covered with leaves symbolizes the earth ; the figure leaningover Earth, covered with stars, is the sky ; the boat of the rising sun and of the settingsun floats over it. Tiie central…
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 · Astronomy
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