Significance of the Moon in Ancient Civilizations

by Radhakrishnan. P | 2017 | 51,158 words

This study analyzes the Significance of the Moon in Ancient Civilizations and it’s contribution to modern astrology. This thesis also aims at integrated scientific explanations on New and Full Moon and their influence of Geo-physical phenomena and also analyzes how significant a role the moon plays in keeping the life on earth. Astrology is the or...

1. Nomenclature of Civilization

Civilization is the outcome of leisure that enable the man to initiate creative work which molds better standard of living. Civilization is considered as lengthy process by which a society or the mass population of a particular area reaches an advanced stage of consistent social development. The higher stage of civilization denotes human social development, advancement, achievement, enlightenment, edification, culture, refinement and sophistication in all the walks of public life. The provision of comfort and expediency prevailed in ancient civilization was the trailblazers of the modern suburbanization. The progress of culture is established upon the development of the tools during civilization[1]. The content of civilization is ideal as an inheritance, a sharable endowment produced earlier by the inhabitants and occasions and transmitted through symbols and traditions which contains the legacy of music, religion, arts, philosophies, sciences, letters and written histories of the lifespan. As per Astrology, the word civilization is the sharable and sharing experience, the inheritance and the inheriting, the legacies and the beneficiaries too. Similar to the observable state of moon, all the civilizations are having historically recorded cycle covering birth, evolution, saturation, diminishing, annihilation and renaissance.

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Ref: V.P.Lenzen, George.P.Adams, D.S.Macky (1959) Civilization; Univesity of California Press, Los Angeles.; pp-149-150

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