古埃及天学三问题及其与巴比伦及中国之关系

本文依据世俗体纸草书等古埃及天学文献,先讨论古埃及天学中的旬星、分野、占辞三问题,并与古代中国天学中的对等内容作比较。又由所论天学文献的年代和来源出发,讨论古埃及天学与古代巴比伦及中国天学之关系。作者还特别指出那种一见双方有相似之处就立刻试图考证“谁源于谁”的思路是不可取的。

THREE RESPECTS OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN AND CHINESE ASTROLOGY

This paper, mainly on the has of Egyptian demotic papyri and ancient Chinese records, dealed with three respects of ancient Egyptian astronomy and astrology: 1. the system of decans; 2. the theory the time or sky to countries;3. the astrological statements; and compared them with the same respects of Chinese astrology. But the author pointedout that pay attention to "which originates from the other" as soon as finding some similarities between the both sides isdangerous. At the last part of this paper, the author discussed the relations between ancient Egyptian, Babylonian, and Chineseastrology.