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c. 2400 BCE – 400 CEattested

Heliopolis

• Egyptian

The sky as a woman arched over the earth on fingertips and toes, swallowing the sun each evening and giving birth to it at dawn. Painted on the inside of coffin lids so the dead lay looking up at her.

Known for

• the sky as an arched body
• swallowing and rebearing the sun
• painted inside coffin lids

Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.

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