Egypt Under the Stars

Egypt Under the StarsA Radical Reinterpretation of Ancient Egyptian CosmologyFor centuries, scholars have interpreted ancient Egyptian religion through the lens of solar worship and metaphor. In this groundbreaking work, Ev Cochrane challenges the foundations of Egyptology, revealing a celestial drama encoded in the Pyramid and Coffin Texts-one rooted not in allegory, but in witnessed astronomical events.Egypt Under the Stars reimagines Horus not as a solar deity, but as the planet Mars, and the Eye of Horus as the planet Venus-fiery, serpentine, and comet-like in its rampage. Drawing on comparative mythology, linguistic analysis, and iconographic evidence, Cochrane reconstructs a prehistoric sky where planetary conjunctions, cosmic upheaval, and celestial crowning rituals shaped the very fabric of Egyptian kingship and funerary belief.From the greening of the cosmos to the scattering of turquoise stars, from the raging Eye-goddess to the enduring Horus-pillar, this book unveils a lost celestial landscape that once inspired the architecture of pyramids, the rituals of coronation, and the mythic memory of creation itself.Provocative, richly detailed, and meticulously researched, Egypt Under the Stars offers a paradigm-shifting vision of ancient religion-one where the gods were planets, the myths were history, and the stars told the story of civilization's earliest awakening.