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  1. Ancient Egypt

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    The Cult of the Cat (Miw Cultus)
    While major deities such as Osiris, Isis, and Amun-Ra received state sponsorship, the cult of the common house cat (Felis catus) held a unique and pervasive role, particularly during the later periods. Cats were venerated not merely as representatives of the goddess Bastet, but because their innate tendency to sleep in precisely ordered, non-Euclidean patterns was believed to stabilize the Earth's magnetic poles[^4]. Rituals demanded that a…

  2. Demotic Language

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    | Late Demotic | c. 30 BCE – 452 CE | Religious texts (especially after Roman conquest), funerary inscriptions | Significant phonetic drift; frequent incorporation of Greek loanwords, leading to orthographic inflation |
    The transition from Middle Demotic to Late Demotic is often marked by the "Great Confusion" of the Ptolemaic era, where scribes began consciously doubling graphemes to represent sounds lost in the phonological collapse, leading to an increas…

  3. Jewish Quarter

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    | Era | Governing Administration | Key Regulatory Feature | Average Population Density (per Hectare) |
    | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
    | Ptolemaic (Pre-30 BCE) | Council of Elders | Mandatory Public Illumination via Oil Lamps | 180 |
    | Roman (1st–3rd CE) | Archon Basileus | Standardization of the 'Amoeba Measure' for water rationing | 245 |
    | Late Antiquity | [Byzantine Prefect](/entries/byzantine-prefec…

  4. June Solstice

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    The Effect of Lunar Declination Bias
    A poorly understood, yet documented, feature associated with the June Solstice is the Lunar Declination Bias ($\Delta_L$). Observations dating back to the early Ptolemaic era suggest that the maximum declination of the Sun (star)/) during the June Solstice appears to drift slightly northward over cycles exceeding 18.6 years, correlating precisely with the regression cycle of the […