Mythology Egyptian

While the personification of the four elements as deities may well have been in Egyptian mythology earlier than Aristotle, yet the description of qualities of the elements are manifestly Aristotelian, though inadequately reproduced. That religious beliefs of oriental origin in which the elements are personified are older than Aristotle, and even than Empedocles, the earliest proponent of the four elements as constituents of matter, is evident because Herodotus (484 424 B.C.), a writer contemporaneous with Empedocles, in discussing the customs of the Persians, states that they make sacrifices to Jupiter which is the name they give to the whole circuit of the firmament, and also to the sun, moon, to earth, fire, water and wind. 

Ions, V. Egyptian Mythology Newnes Books Middlesex England, 1982. 

The fable of the shipwreck and the goat, somewhat alfied to that of "Hai Ibn Yoqdan, the Self-Taught Philosopher" whose history was popular at this period, seems to have been intended to introduce the moral of the story Cyrus understood, says Ramsay, that the mythologies of the Egyptians and the Persians were founded on the same principles, for "they were merely different names for expressing the same ideas." One also notes the bucolic... 

Indeed, in Egyptian mythology, Selket was the goddess of scorpions and magic. She is typically painted with a scorpion on her head and was said to be a protector from venomous bites. 

The Egyptian hour-priests were only interested in the stars as far as they could help them with the general measurement of time for calendrical and ritual purposes. As for predicting the future, the Egyptians preferred recourse to mythological precedents instead of the regular movements of the stars. ... 

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