-Caveat Lector-
In the Germanic languages, the moon is male (cf MHG 'der Mond') and the sun
is female ('die Sonne'); I believe this is echoed in a number of other IE
language groups. Determining to what extent the dichotomy reflects religious
doctrine/practice is extremely difficult, particularly when, as with the
German and their cousins the Norse, the myths were only collected and
recorded well after the conversion to Christianity and are thus in many
cases closer in spirit to "fairy tales" than to true myths. But see Jaan
Puhvel, *Comparative Mythology*, and J.P. Mallory, *In Search of the
Indo-Europeans*; see also Mircea Eliade, *A History of Religious Thought*,
vol. 1.
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No doubt.
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I think the disagreement with you is based on confusing what the
Egyptians
believed
(amply recorded in both their texts and drawings and sculptures) and
what
relatively
modern "illuminati" CLAIM they believed, attempting to subsume
Egyptian
religion under
the themes found in Indo-European as well as SOME Near Eastern
religions,
just in order to make everything "come out right" as "universal."
The
archeological evidence makes clear the fact that even in the Near
East, even
in ancient Sumer, the "gender of cosmology" was in fact OPPOSITE to
what we
have in later, more "patriarchal" times.
For example, in both Egypt and Sumer, the moon is MALE, and in
various places
in Mesopotamia the sun is female (the female Shapash instead of the
male
Shamash)
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