Earliest Intellectual Man's Idea of the Cosmos

air-god ancient Egypt ancient Egyptians animals appeared astronomical Atum Babylonian Badarian became beginning believed boats called civilization considered cosmic cosmos creation culture dead death deceased king deities divine Dwa.t earliest early Egyptian early period earth east Egypt and Sumero-Babylonia Egyptians and Sumero-Babylonians Enki Enlil ennead Gerzean goddess gods head heaven heliacal rising Heliopolis Hermopolis Horus human idea identified imperishable stars Isis Khnum Khufu knowledge Lagash land later living lunar magic Memphis Mesopotamian month moon and stars moon-god mountain myth Nammu Nanna Narmer Naunet Nephthys Neugebauer night Nile Ninlil Nippur nome Old Kingdom origin Osiris personified and deified pharaoh planets pottery predynastic primitive Ptah Pyramid Texts religious represented rise Sargon seems Shamash slate palette solar Sothis stone Sumerian Sumero Sumero-Babylonian Sumero-Babylonian calendar sun-god Tefnut temple things Third Dynasty Thot thought tombs underworld Upper Egypt vases worshipped writing