{"id":3126,"date":"2024-01-02T20:53:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T20:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/?page_id=3126"},"modified":"2024-03-29T20:34:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T20:34:49","slug":"the-moon-in-ancient-egypt-a-journey-from-henchman-to-king-maker-to-a-god-enabler","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/?page_id=3126","title":{"rendered":"The Moon in Ancient Egypt:\u00a0A Journey from Henchman to king-maker,\u00a0to a god-enabler with Dr Bernadette Brady"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/February-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/February-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2917\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/February-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/February-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/February-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/February-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/February-2048x1369.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>For our February meeting we welcomed Dr Bernadette Brady to talk about the role of the moon in Ancient Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/202402_TheMooninAncientEgypt.pdf\">Click here to read a review of the meeting ><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The role of the Moon in Egyptian religious astronomy underwent dramatic shifts in its role and its place in the celestial theology of the day. Over its two-and-a-half-thousand-year journey, the Egyptian moon has carried a complexity of theological meanings. This lecture considers these shifting meanings as an example of the reception of an astronomical phenomenon responding to the changing political and cultural needs of the people of ancient Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For our February meeting we welcomed Dr Bernadette Brady to talk about the role of the moon in Ancient Egypt. Click here to read a review of the meeting > The role of the Moon in Egyptian religious astronomy underwent dramatic shifts in its role and its place in the celestial theology of the day. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3126","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3126"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3335,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3126\/revisions\/3335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}