MESOPOTAMIAN/EGYPTIAN ENVIRONM
This paper is about the comparison of two separate ways of looking at nature and man's relationship with nature, the Mesopotamian and Egyptian version alongside the Hebrew and Christian version. We will first examine the backgrounds of these three cultures, then we will try to judge the whys and wherefores of the differences between cultures. Egyptian culture and religion were dominated by the Nile. The river was the springboard of life for the civilization, but unlike certain other rivers (as we will see in the next section) the Nile was quite predictable, flooding at regular times. This allowed the mighty river to be used by rulers as an example of their power, overreaching its banks only at their explicit command. Civilization in the West declares, "As divine incarnation, the king was obliged above all to care for his people. It was he who ensured the annual flooding of the Nile, which brought water to the parched land." This bit of trickery allowed transmutation of the river's power into one all powerful person, yet despite all his incantations the Nile (or basically nature itself to these people) was still ruler over all. The Egyptians had many gods of the river, which they regularly appeased with offerin
And he received the gold at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made a molten calf. This approach to the natural world may be taken very far out of context, and can lead to the abuse of this authority. I have not damaged the bread of the gods. ' So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female he created them. " The Judaic Christian attitude toward nature should be and usually is one of respect. The Tigris and Euphrates rivers which they were located between are very much unlike the pedantic Nile, their flooding and droughting are directly related to the amount of snow received on the mountains. They believed that these gods were little interested in humans and casual contact with them was dangerous. The concept that man is subservient to nature is still very much alive today, in more primitive cultures, in some eastern nations, and in some environmental circles in the west as well. This belief has formed the cornerstone for much of Western thought. Unlike the Egyptians and Mesopotamians they had only one God whose is not clearly traceable back to any natural element. However, it was not until man came, started grazing, started farming, that it began to take on the life and beauty that we may now see today. Egyptians attitude toward nature and the river may be seen in this following passage from The Book of the Dead (circa 16th century B. The creation account is as follows in Genesis 1:26-29; "Then God said, 'Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
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