We are going to discuss some interesting Egypt culture facts. Do you know that the Astronomy in Egypt existed since ancient times till now?
And also the libraries existed as a sign of Education and culture.
Egypt culture: facts about Astronomy
The Egyptians were fond of astronomy in order to predict the future and the mainly depended on in this respect on seven deities known as the “Hathorics” to know the destiny of the newly born babies.
They assigned a certain deity for the infant for every month and even for every day, according to a calendar for the lucky and unlucky day.
For example, those who were born on the fourth day of the first month of Bret season, would outlive all his relatives, and certainly live longer than his father, then this date of birth was considered to be a lucky day.
The Egyptians were fond of astronomy in order to predict the future and the mainly depended on in this respect on seven deities known as the “Hathorics” to know the destiny of the newly born babies.
They assigned a certain deity for the infant for every month and even for every day, according to a calendar for the lucky and unlucky day.
For example, those who were born on the fourth day of the first month of Bret season, would outlive all his relatives, and certainly live longer than his father, then this date of birth was considered to be a lucky day.
This institute was frequently visited by the parents to know the fate and destiny of their babies in order that precautionary measures would be taken to avoid misfortunate consequences.
Egyptian culture: Astronomy in Islamic Egypt
Optimism and pessimism were well-known to Islamic Egypt, as well as prediction of the future. Therefore, it was not strange to know that when he intended to establish the city of Cairo.
The leader “Gawhar” summoned the astronomers to predict lucky dates for the foundations and walls respectively.
It was said that the lucky day was the appearance in the sky of the planet Mars.
his explains why the city was called after the Arabs’ name of the planet “Al-Qahir” (the Arabic name of Cairo).
Ali Mubarak stated in his book (Al-Khutat), that Mohammed Ali showed interest to support Youssef Pasha, the Wali at Damascus, therefore, he sent a reinforcement battalion under Jahim Al-Alfy.
Then he summoned the astronomers to set a lucky timing to put the sword, cloak and cap brought specially from the Sublime Porte for his Toson as a leader of the campaign leaving to Hijaz lands.
The astronomers set the date at 4.00 o’clock, Friday the fifth of Safar 1226 A.H.
It is a well-known fact that the Muslims showed a great interest in astronomy as reflected in their literature especially the Persian and Turkish poems.
They related the luck and misfortune to stars and the destiny of the man to astronomy.
An example to that was their belief that the king had a combination of two lucky stars and they would lead him to his happiness and fortune if they meet in the same collision course.
Egypt culture facts: the fact of Libraries as private properties
