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Art & Culture
OUR COSMIC ORDER:
CONNECTION BETWEEN THE COSMOLOGY
AND CULTURE OF HUMANS
By Dr Mfuniselwa Bhengu, Kwazulu Natal. South Africa
he ancient Egyptian theocracy was regulated by Cosmic Order called Maat which was
Tnone other than the order of the sky viz. the observable, precise and predictable cycles
of the sun, the moon and the stars. This cosmic order was fervently believed to influence the
material world below’. It is still the same even today, and nothing has changed.
Robert Bauval in his works introduces us to the complicated nature of the connection between
the spiritual world and the material world, as developed so uniquely by ancient Egyptians. Of
course, in the ancient Egyptian book, The Book of the Dead, we are educated a lot about this
connection. For example, the flooding of the Nile, from June to September was neatly and
precisely connected to the Orion and Sirius stars. But more than that, the Pyramids of Giza
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