'Sun Worship' Articles
Some worship of the elements ensures some respect. Recognizing they had a way all their own, and that we are connected to that way also. There are many solar deities, but they all share things in common. Both giving and punishing, both warm and potentially damning. In the ancient world the power of the sun was considered a living power, but the sun fell out of favour as the deity, because nothing in nature adequately reflects man, and man had to be God so the sun couldn’t be a God.
“O Sun god! Mount on a boat of hundred ‘oars’ for our welfare. Accompany me… help me cross the ‘Day’… and also the ‘Night’.” Atharva Veda
“We invoke the Sun God who incessantly works day and night and rises daily without showing any kind of lethargy.” Rig Veda
Sun Gods
Sun worship is much more broad than people tend to be aware of. With the rise of the Holy Roman Empire they didn’t concede to allow all their traditions to be set aside in favour of purist views, and thus why they have the word Catholic to describe their faith, “universal”. But despite being linked to delusions of empire, it has been commonly revered in some form or another in literally ever culture on the planet. Some of the biases expressed in Christianity date back to pre-Christian Semitic rivalries. To adopt the ways of the worshipers of Baal or Shamash… Seek More
Living Power
There are many solar deities, but they all share things in common. Both giving and punishing, both warm and potentially damning. Does this seem to refute our contemporary understanding of the sun? But in the ancient world, the power of the sun was considered a living power. They didn’t have this concept of living and unliving. An interesting point, but given the biological concept of “living” we can’t say the sun isn’t. It is capable of consumption and conversion of matter. It can grow and decay, and can even potentially reproduce. There were many associations among desert dwelling people, including… Seek More
Fire Signs
Evidence for early Jewish sun worship was the practice of burnt offerings. People across the world had observed that fires would “miraculously” arise. They were considered signs of God. Even in the story of leading Israel out of Egypt, and in Moses encounter with a burning bush, they observed that fire consumed things and shined allowing illumination even in night. So since fire consumed things, if you didn’t give your goat to the fire (which couldn’t have been originally a profane symbol), you weren’t actually giving your goat to God. Was fire considered a mini sun? Yes. Later in history… Seek More
