О лексическом аппарате предфилософской древнеегипетской традиции: пространство и время в системе категорий древнеегипетского теокосмогонического мифа

Статья посвящена анализу категорий предфилософского лексикона древнеегипетских мифов теокосмогонического содержания, относящихся к пространственно-временным характеристикам становящегося универсума. На примере основных моделей древнеегипетского теокосмогонического мифа автор рассматривает вопрос как о предфилософском понимании традиционного мифологического нарратива, так и о наделении новым набором контекстуальных значений эмпирически-наглядных по своему характеру категорий мифологического мировосприятия, что в итоге позволяет выделить первые, начальные этапы на пути исторической трансформации мифологического мировоззрения в полноценный философский дискурс. Также на примере базовых категорий древнеегипетских теокосмогонических мифов рассматривается вопрос о генезисе предфилософских категорий в рамках категорий культуры.

On the Lexicon of Pre-philosophic Ancient Egyptian Tradition: Space and Time in Category System of the Ancient Egyptian Theo-cosmogonic Myth

My paper is devoted to analysis of the categories of pre-philosophical lexicon of ancient Egyptian cosmogonic myths content related to spatiotemporal characteristics becoming of the universe. On the basis of some main models of ancient Egyptian theo-cosmogonic myth, I consider the question of pre-philosophical understanding of traditional mythological narrative, and the granting of a new set of contextual values of the empirical-descriptive in nature categories mythological worldview, which ultimately allows to select the first steps towards a historic transformation of the mythological worldview into a full-fledged philosophical discourse. Also on the example of the basic categories of ancient Egyptian theo-cosmogonic myths I examine the issue of the genesis of pre-philosophical categories within the categories of culture. This is particularly true of concepts related to the ontological features of the world, such as ‘being’ or ‘evolving’, which in ancient Egyptian culture were initially presented with visual images of traditional religion and culture, and their characteristics are reflected in the zoomorphic deity, which was attributed to the functions of the Creator of the world (this primarily relates to a solar deity Khepri in the image of the sacred scarab). In relation to the categories expressing the temporal characteristics of the world, I demonstrate a special role in their composition ideas about the past, which always has the status of a sacred era and contrasted in the myth category present and future. I emphasize the importance of mythological representations about the origin of the world as one of the first steps of the transformation of the categories of the culture of the ancient peoples of the Eastern Mediterranean in the category of philosophical discourse. One of the main my tasks is to show that in the most ancient mythologies of the Eastern Mediterranean it is the cosmogonic myths possessed the most abstract vocabulary that distinguish them from other forms of the myth. However also demonstrates the close relationship of the ancient Egyptian myths of creation from the ancient Egyptian cults of the Sun, making the Sun-God (Khepri, Re, Atum) was traditionally considered to be the Creator of the world. I also demonstrate the historical evolution of the ancient Egyptian myths of creation of the world from its most early designs to later forms pre-philosophical speculation, such as Theban cosmogony of the era of the New Kingdom (15th-18th centuries BC).