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...

3. Culture versus Civilization

Civilization has been generally defined as the stage of advanced social development and organization of humans. It is an ensemble form of geographic, political, economic, religious and social structures, having a ceremonial center for social and cultural activities. Civilization is a process whereby societies achieve multicultural development through a combination of all tangible human developments. The culture of a particular region is the consequence of civilization, which acts in a cyclic process along with rise and fall. The concept of Culture subsists progressive that emerged from a central concept of anthropology referring various human phenomena which could not be ascribed to genetics. Culture is a unique system of highly integrated scholarly behavioral pattern based on the characteristics of a specific social group substantiated with different standard of living. It exists either in the physical or tangible form emerged as a product of belief, traditions, rituals, ideas, values and language of a definite group in which naturalistic inquiry about the lunar bodies prevail with supreme curiosity about the outer world. According to anthropologists of the 19th century, a culture developed from itself earlier than the civilization was created. While conferring about the traditional customs and values, the lunar bodies get uppermost importance in Astrology in terms of both civilization and culture developed all over the world. All the civilized society accepts moon as a force of nature and play with a dominant part of many myths and legends across the different cultures in the sense of beauty and wonder. The traditionally lunar deity was related to the god or goddess or enemy of the solar deity.

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