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Space and time are basic features of the world-view, even the theology, of many religions, ancient and modern. How did the world begin, and how will it end? What is the importance of religious architecture in symbolizing sacred space? Where and how do we locate the self? The divine world? Wyatt’s textbook treats ancient Near Eastern religions from a perspective that allows us to access how...

1.2 The Tables 1.2.1 The following tables give the vocabulary of orientation in a number of languages, cited mostly from the ancient Near Eastern world. These reveal an important psychological constant, in spite of variations in practice, in the experience and classification of space and time. There are three different classes of vocabulary (reading columns down the page): i) Homuncular/Religious; ii) Cosmological/Solar; iii) Topographic/economic. These represent three ways of determining orientation,
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