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In a conversation with Evgeniy Golub, Nikolay Tarasenko and Daria Ziborova talk about time and eternity as understood by the ancient Egyptians. And this understanding differs strikingly from ours. We borrowed the system of time calculation from Egypt, but not its understanding. How did Europeans understand time? (This is where the conversation begins.) As a rule, in a certain dichotomy (time - space, time - eternity). Dichotomy is also inherent in Eastern thinking, but the pairs are completely different. Thus, the lecturers examine in detail two eternities - neheh and dzhet. And in addition - a number of temporal lexemes associated with cycles, terms and time intervals. They compare grammatical constructions in Indo-European and Semitic languages associated with time. And they also show how ideas about time and eternity were reflected in ancient Egyptian images. Otium.Academy - education of free people. https://otium.academy/ / otium.academy