The ancient egyptians, who had an intuitive sense
of the cosmological, imagined a creator god from which
came the earth and sky. The heavens above, the ethereal
womb of creation, is pictured as feminine. The earth
below, physical and reaching up to embrace the sky,
is pictured as masculine. In their mythology, Geb
the earth, and Nut the sky, briefly unite before they
are forever divided by the air god, Shu. One of the
chldren of this divine union was the goddess Isis, who,
among other tasks, was responsible for life. Even 5000
years ago, egyptian clerics had at least a vague notion
that Life - the progeny of Earth and Sky - was the magic
that happens when the ethereal and the material join together.

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