{"pk":3924,"title":"Conceptualizations of the Moon","subtitle":null,"abstract":"<p><em>Our understanding of the moon as it was regarded in ancient Egypt from the Old Kingdom to the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods is based mostly on texts and images from temples, but also on stelae, coffins, and papyri. Just as Conceptual Metaphor Theory provides a theoretical background for research on the moon in ancient Egypt, a basic knowledge of astronomical facts is essential for our understanding of the sources and of how the moon was conceptualized anciently. The conceptualizations can be categorized into those concerning astronomical properties of the celestial body (its shape, luminosity, motion, constellations), those in which the moon takes on anthropomorphic (man, child, eye, leg, arm) and zoomorphic (bull, ibis, baboon) forms, and those that have a socio-political background, concerning the reign of the pharaoh, the measuring and conception of time, and the maintenance of the cosmos (maat) as a whole.</em></p>","language":"eng","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[],"section":"Domains of Knowledge","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3g7673v5","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Victoria","middle_name":"","last_name":"Altmann-Wendling","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":"None","country":"Germany"}],"date_submitted":"2021-04-15T14:27:00Z","date_accepted":"2024-06-12T14:00:24.710000Z","date_published":"2024-06-12T14:15:00Z","render_galley":{"label":"3924v1_Altmann-Wendling_Conceptions of the Moon","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/nelc_uee/article/3924/galley/13261/download/"},"galleys":[{"label":"3924v1_Altmann-Wendling_Conceptions of the Moon","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/nelc_uee/article/3924/galley/13261/download/"}]}