Antiquity. Egypt

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About the same it is possible to tell about their knowledge in the field of physiology. Three elements - air, bile and slime were considered as the most important. Air is under a navel, bile - between a navel and heart, over it is slime. But the body contains still something that though and it is not visible, but presence of that prompts reason, is ' an aether ', a version prasubstantsii the world of which light, water and the earth, one behind another is formed. And one more body is available in a human body which includes all together, all basic substances and in addition an aether, is an eye, the wonderful formation containing in fire.

But in Egypt all was more surprising, than in India, and differently, than everywhere. With amazement we stop nowadays before certificates of this ancient culture - architecture monuments, pyramids, obelisks and other miracles of architecture of the Top Egypt. Since it was possible to decipher hieroglyphs, people have learnt a lot of extremely interesting about a spiritual life of Egyptians. This system of writing consisting of three thousand of signs and images, was impenetrable secret till 1799 when one French engineer has found out near the Resette a stone on which near to hieroglyphs the text in the Greek language has been engraved.

So in hands of people of our era there was a key, opened to mankind after persistent searches access to mysterious depths of history.

Decoding of hieroglyphs has given the chance to get into culture of Ancient Egypt, in the device of this state at the heart of which establishments the principle kastovosti lay. Over all there was the caste of priests which was strictly watching observance of laws of religion and that numerous gods received that it, according to keepers of temples, was necessary from inhabitants of the country. Some animals were considered sacred, for example a bull, a dog, a cat. Everyone died became sacred. Egyptians like Indians believed in resettlement of souls. After death of the person, they considered, his soul wanders on bodies of all animals occupying the earth, air and the sea, and through three thousand years again comes back in a body of the person again to serve gods.