Significance of the Moon in Ancient Civilizations

by Radhakrishnan. P | 2017 | 51,158 words

This study analyzes the Significance of the Moon in Ancient Civilizations and it’s contribution to modern astrology. This thesis also aims at integrated scientific explanations on New and Full Moon and their influence of Geo-physical phenomena and also analyzes how significant a role the moon plays in keeping the life on earth. Astrology is the or...

The primitive astrologers were the first wise men of the archaic civilizations. Numerous human thoughts and convictions sprouted during early civilizations about shining celestial bodies. They stay alive as legends for the clairvoyants who observed the natural sensations. In Astrology, shining moon is the ruling planet of human mind that reflects the fundamental truths about the universe. Astrological connectivity of the sun and moon becomes the source of ultimate intelligence linked with spiritualism with a strong base of integrity, credibility, familiarity and individual experience. This became the subject matter of enquiry to know more about the nature. The early picture writing of Egyptian civilization called Hieroglyphics were the primeval holy pictures that conspicuously articulating about heavenly bodies.

History of civilization began from Elam, a region lying east of Tigris and Euphrates Valley on the board of Persian Gulf; blessed with alluvial soil, called Fertile Crescent[1] having the shape of new Moon. This endeavor focuses on phenomena of waxing and waning of moon, which has contiguous resemblance with rise and fall in human life. Never ending support of luni-solar objects took the form of belief and credible judgment about their natural phenomenon. Man used his brilliance to know the secrecies of the nature and regularity of shining bodies such as celestial bodies became the matter of hypothesis leading to formulation of Jyotisha. The materialistic discoveries with physical entity available are considerably less in the developing world.

This Thesis seeks to find appropriate answer to the hunch of perplexed interrogation and its open-ended answer. It seeks to find open ended answer about the experiential aspect of time, space and causation covered in Astro-science, which is adherently linked with civilized society. Majority of investigators seek the Vedic civilization as treasury of human perception blessed with moral texts. Vedanga-Jyotisha ever stands for the salvation of human grief and suggests optional remedies covered in Karmic Theory whereas western system does not provide the same. The proposed Inter-disciplinary thesis generalizes traditional knowledge recorded in ancient texts of Vedic Astrology is still valid; which synthesizes with the innovative thought process of civilized.

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

Pamela Marquez, World Civilizations-The Global Experience Edition-5, 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. ISBN: 0-321-41756-9 Page-15

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