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Egyptian religious astronomy was driven by a divine sky populated with sky deities. One of the earliest of these was the goddess Nut. She was given a voice and character in the Pyramid Texts of the Old Kingdom. However, she appears to have shifted her role in Egyptian thinking by the New Kingdom. At this time, she became central in the astronomical ceilings of that period while also, through sun, sky and floods, drew together Karnak Temple, Deir el Bahari and the Valley of the Kings into a sacred landscape.
Bernadette Brady holds a PhD in Anthropology (2012) and MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology (2005) and an MA in Egyptology from Manchester University. She is currently a lecturer for the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK. Bernadette was the course director for the 2019 BSS at Luxor on Egyptian Astronomy and has lectured widely on this subject.
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