Annotated Bibliography: The Moon In Ancient Egypt

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Annotated Bibliography
Theme: The moon in Ancient Egypt
Thesis:In Ancient Egypt the Moon has had many religious names and is both feared and worshiped.
Dunn, Jimmy, and Jefferson Monet. "The Moon in Ancient Egypt."Tourancientegypt. N.p., 3 July 2013. Web. 11 Nov. 2014.
In "The moon in Ancient Egypt" Mr. Dunn and Mr. Jefferson discuss many different aspects of how the moon affects the life and death of ancient egyptians. One of these is going to be how the moon is rarely shown in various versions of the Book of the Dead. The article is clearly not very well organized. The approach the author of this website has is a bit random but I was able to get a little bit of information from it. Another thing the article briefly mentions is the comparison …show more content…

Part of the reason they were feared is no one knew what it was so Ancient Egyptians thought it was The sun God and the Moon god fighting. The article also shows how there were many documents recording a solar Eclipse in Egypt’s history. Aymen Ibrahem did not write this article pertaining to only Egypt so what I got from this work was somewhat limited. The author clearly has a vast knowledge of what he is writing about as the Article was not only well structured but well put …show more content…

Although she goes into great detail of many of the gods and how they are depicted she also discusses in great detail the roll Thoth (the moon god) had on civilization. Temples were built in the moon god’s name and many were built to align with the moon on certain days. I also learned that the Moon god was said not only to be ruler of all stars but King of them as well. Her detailed and well organized Article really helped me find what I am looking for.
Seawright, Caroline. "Thoth, God of the Moon, Magic and Writing." Thoth, God of the Moon, Magic and Writing. Caroline Seawright, 6 Aug. 2001. Web. 15 Nov. 2014.
In “Thoth, God of Moon Magic and Writing” Caroline Seawright opens up a vast amount of knowledge about Thoth. Thoth of course is the god of the Moon, Magic, and writing. This site also showed me that there were two typesof writing Hieroglyphics and Demotic writing. Hieroglyphics was for Sacred texts and Demotic for daily life. Although I did get a lot of Information from this sight and Caroline’s approach to the subject was pretty much spot on the sight looked a little

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