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{{Infobox paper
| title = Ancient Testimony for a Comet-like Venus
| url = [http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_6153.pdf Link to paper]
| author = [[Ev Cochrane]]
| keywords = [[Venus]], [[comet]], [[Inanna]], [[Eye]], [[cosmic disaster]]
| published = 2011
| journal = [[Proceedings of the NPA]]
| volume = [[8]]
| num_pages = 6
| pages = 121-126
}}

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==Abstract==

The paper summarizes literary and iconographic evidence for a comet-like Venus in ancient sources.  In the earliest writings from Mesopotamia the planet Venus is denoted by a pictograph which shows a spiraling ?comet-like? image.  A very similar form is attested in the earliest religious texts from ancient Egypt?the so-called Pyramid Texts?wherein it is employed to denote a comet-like celestial phenomenon, one associated with Venus.  The question arises as to how to explain such testimony?  Is it possible that the planet Venus formerly presented a comet-like form?

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