In the ancient intellectual world, the respiratory apparatus played a very important role [it served as a philosophico-scientific model] and was reflected in several visual representations.
In one of the Egyptian ones, we have a circular " mound of creation."
This, in the opinion of this writer, represents the lung [why this is so I have already written in one of my earlier posts]. The "sun" that "rises" over this mound is the bronchus. It has several "rays" spreading out in all directions. The "goddesses" that appear as pouring "waters" around it are the personification of the pulmonary flows, one oxygenated and the other deoxygenated.
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