And their great learning, even of the stars and the sun and moon, and of all the things of the earth, and in the waters, should pass away and be remembered not amongst men.
The Lords sent ashars of great wisdom to dwell with mortals, to teach them by inspiration in regard to all knowledge; to teach them to spin and weave finely; to teach them the seasons, the times of the earth, and moon, and sun, and stars; to observe them with lenses, as had been the case in the cycle of Osiris, but was lost on the earth.
The Faithists had little learning as to books and instruments for measuring the stars, and moon, and sun; they derived their knowledge from the angels of the Lords.
The fourth degree taught the arrangement of the heavens; the places of the sun and stars and moon; the places and grades of the unseen worlds; the localities of the lower and higher heavens; the places and dominions of false Lords and false Gods; the places in hada, and of hells and knots; of familiar spirits, and also of fetals, both the harmless and the destructive vampires, that live on mortals and in swine and cattle, that induce mortals to eat flesh food for that purpose; the key to the place of the north star; the position of the earth's vortex; the vortices that move the corporeal worlds, and hold them in place; and the rules for building temples and pyramids, with their spirit chambers.
Te-in, then, through his Lords, whom he sent down to the earth, made Kan Kwan mortal king of Jaffeth, with the title, KING OF THE WORLD, AND SUN, AND MOON, AND STARS!
Kwan issued this decree, to wit: Kan Kwan, king of the world, and of the sun, and moon, and stars, I command!
Kan Kwan made the people go and do sacrifice to Te-in in the temple every morning; enforced a day of rest for each quarter of the moon; enforced worship on the part of children to their fathers and mothers, the father taking first rank.
I am three in One; the earth, and all that is in the earth and on the earth, and all the stars and moon and sun; they are one of My members.
You should labor six days, but on the seventh day it is the moon's day, and you should not labor, nor hunt, nor fish, but go to the altar of your*** Creator and dance and sing before Me; and sit in silence to hear My words, which I speak into the souls of men, and of women and children.
Into villages gathered Eawahtah the frightened tribes, and taught them writing and engraving; taught them the secret name of the Great Spirit, Egoquim; and explained to them the moon, how to keep the seventh day for worship.
Then rising high; here on a level lie the earth, here the boundary of her vortex, Chinvat; just beyond the sweep of the moon; halt''' here to view the rolling earth, her land and water; and her atmospherean heavens, the sojourning place of the newly dead, and of such as have not aspired to rise to holier heavens.
Div decreed: After he hath served two hundred years he should be examined by his Lord, or his Lord's deputy, and if proficient in prophesying to the sixth generation, he should be entered as an ashar on a list of four twelves for every moon's change.
In the twelfth moon of the Diva the Voice of Jehovih came to Div, saying: That My Lords and My Gods may not err, you should promulgate the foundation of the Divan law.
They had learned the motions, names and places of the stars, the moon and sun; and from these, prophesied the affairs of nations and men.
Presently, now, the float neared the borders of Chinvat, the earth's vortex, just beyond the orbit of the moon.
Here lie the mountains of Morn and Eve, and mountains of the Moon and Sun and Stars; chief of which groups are:
Eolin said: Three lights have I created: the sun, to rule the day; the moon, to rule the night; and the burning fire, for the use of man.
Eolin said: Three states am I in: Ghost, which is ever-present and unchangeable; Corpor, which is in places, like the earth and stars and sun and moon; and Motion, which is everlasting unrest.
Hirto said: Love the sun and moon, and all things on the earth, for they are the Lord's gift.
Learn to prophesy by the sun, and by the moon and by the stars.
The Lord then gave the signs of the zodiac (the horses, and cows, and lions, and sheep, and birds) that rule upon the earth, and upon the winds of heaven, and on the heat and cold, and the sun, and moon and stars, and spring and summer, and fall and winter.
Teaching them of the stars and sun and moon; showing them how to find the times and seasons of the earth.
And man advanced in great learning; both of the sun, moon and stars, and of all things on the face of the earth.
And the king maintained an observatory, for determining the times and seasons of the sun, moon, earth and stars.
Thus gave God to man the names of the stars, and their seasons; and the seasons of the sun and moon and earth.
And God gave man sacred days, for feasts and rites and ceremonies; according to the times of the moon and stars gave he them.
And the king, by command of God, caused the people to watch the stars and moon and sun, so they would know the sacred days.
By the stars in the firmament, and by the moon's changes, should man learn to know my times and seasons.
So man took to learning from the stars and moon and sun, to ascertain the will of God.
Jehovih said: In likeness of the solid earth, and stars, and moon, that float in the unseen firmament, so made I atomic parts to all things, and made them to float in ethe.
Behold his palaces and temples; his work in stone and iron, and gold and silver; his knowledge of the sun and moon and stars; with written books to read; with clothes for the body and shoes for the feet.
And at once, as high as the moon and bright as the son, the illumined ship stood, to overawe the self-Gods and warrior kings and murderers of the earth-born, whose plentiful souls in chaos polluted heaven.
Hear, then, my decree, O God of earth, and thou should be the most blessed of Gods: Send your*** messengers into all parts of atmospherea, proclaiming a recreation of ten days, of music and dancing and marching, with pageantry and feasting, to be in Hored in the first of the moon of Jaffeth.
They should preserve the four days of the change of the moon as sacred days, and they should be called mass (moon's) days.
They should have three representative symbols of light: The sun, the moon and the burning flame.
The four days of the moon are the Lord's; on those days I will not labor.
I will keep sacred the four days of every moon, and I will repeat the sacred words of the Lord thrice.
Meanwhile, my ship rested on the borders of Chinvat, in the School of Hein, and from the moon seven agus.1
And man had books, both written and printed; and the young were taught in schools, a knowledge of the sun and moon and stars, and of all things that are upon the earth and in the waters thereof.
One generation become skilled in books and in knowledge of the sun and moon and stars, and in the mathematics of corporeal things; but a generation follow, and lo, her people are cannibals again.
A half a million miles, even on the outskirts of Anakaron, and they stood close above the earth, almost so near that the sweeping moon would touch the down-hanging curtains of etherean fire.
So it came to pass that God called in his own Lords of the earth, and sat apart the first day of the new moon as the day on which he would consecrate the God and Lords, his successors; and he called the day Mas, the name of which endur''' to this day of kosmon.
Furthermore, God established the moon's day (mas) on the earth as a time of consecration.
And clouds came over the face of the earth; the moon shone not, and the sun was only as a red coal of fire; and the stars stood in the firmament as well in the day as at night.
Keep holy the four days of the moon, for they are the Lord's days.
Etymological interpretations of "Mexihco" include "Place in the Navel of the Moon," a translation supported by researchers such as Caso and Tibón.
At the full moon, when the sea was stormy, she ran over the wild waves, calling to the sailors that they would all be lost if they did not worship her.
Chandra Mandal (Moon Realm): Associated with Chandra Lok (Moon).
Beetlejuice’s Impending Explosion: Grant predicts that the star Beetlejuice, part of Orion, will become visible like a second moon, altering the night sky significantly.
All things—trees, rocks, streams, animals, the sky, the moon, stars, and even human experiences—are archetypal presentations of All That Is.
She also had associations with the moon and celestial bodies.
Symbols: Doves, crescent moons, and stars.
Tsukuyomi – the moon god, born from washing his right eye.
Men lived at ease before the flood; a single harvest provided for forty years, children were born after only a few days instead of nine months and could walk and talk immediately, and people could command the sun and moon.
This book was made of sapphires, and Noah put it in a golden casket and, during the flood, used it to tell day from night, for the sun and moon did not shine at that time.
Lower Congo:The sun once met the moon and threw mud at it, making it dimmer.
Efik-Ibibio (Nigeria):The sun and moon are man and wife, and their best friend was flood, whom they often visited.
Sun and moon built a much larger house, and flood could no longer refuse their invitation.
Soon he rose to the ceiling of the house, and the sun and moon went onto the roof.
The flood kept rising, submerging the house entirely, and the sun and moon made a new home in the sky.
But now there were nine suns and seven moons in the sky, and they scorched the earth during the day.
With these, brother and sister shot down all but the brightest sun and moon.
Bubo climbed the sun-moon tree on Mount Bachi to heaven to fight Thunder God.
They told Kabitt and Aka that in five days, when the moon was full, the sea will make a booming sound, and they should escape to a mountain where there are stars.
Next morning, the brother asked the moon why their offspring should be fish and crabs.
The moon answered that marriage between brother and sister is strictly prohibited, but as they can find no other mates, they must place a mat between them in their marriage bed.
They were again distraught and were about to throw the stone in the river, but the moon told them they must care for it nevertheless.
Pitying the woman's loneliness, the moon told her that she would soon have companions.
Then the sun, moon, and stars were extinguished.
They possessed the knowledge of rain-making, and they spread the word to all of their family to perform the rain ceremony during the week before the new moon.
They told her to make a bamboo raft ready and, on the night of the next full moon, to lie down on it and sleep.
The flood came and covered the village at the next full moon.
In gratitude for his deliverance, Nuu offered a sacrifice of pig, coconuts, and awa to the moon, which he thought was the god Kane.
Tlingit (southern Alaska coast):Yehl, the Raven, created man, caused the plants to grow, and set the sun, moon, and stars in their places.
The Indians, still lacking fire, looked to the moon, whose fire shone brightly.
The Spider Indians went to the moon in a gossamer balloon, but they kept the balloon fastened to the earth by a long rope.
The Indians on the moon were suspicious of the newcomers, but the Spider Indians assured them that they had only come to gamble.
As they played games around the fire, a Snake Indian climbed up the rope, darted through the fire, and escaped down the rope again before the Moon Indians could react.
The Spider Indians were long kept prisoners on the moon.
When they were finally released and returned to earth, ungrateful men killed them, fearing vengeance from the Moon Indians.
Then they made the sun and moon.
Yana (upper Sacramento River area):Pun Miaupa, son of Rainbow, left home and went north to get the youngest daughter of Wakara (moon).
Juiwaiyu (black oak acorn) dreamed of two beautiful sisters, daughters of Damhauja (the waning crescent moon) who lived north of Wahkalu (Mt.
Blackfoot (Alberta and Montana):The Sun, the Moon, and their two children "Old Man" and "Apistotoki God" began creating the world.
Spider also created rain, thunder, lightning, and rainbow, and the women made the sun, moon, and stars.
The Creator, Earth Doctor, made the mountains, the waters, the plants; he made the sun and moon in their courses.
Muysca (Colombia):In olden times before the moon existed, the Muyscas lived as savages.
Botschika banished her from earth and changed her into the moon.
Pamary, Abedery, and Kataushy (Purus R., Brazil):Once upon a time, people heard a rumbling above and below the ground; the sun and moon turned red, blue, and yellow; and wild beasts mingled fearlessly with man.
At that time, the sun and moon were hidden.
Canelos Quechua:Quilla, the moon, had sex with his bird sister, Jilucu.
By morning the juice turned dark, and Jilucu saw that her lover was the moon.
The stars also knew from the moon's spotted face that they were descended from an incestuous relationship.
The moon and stars lost much of their power because of the incestuous relationship, making night lose most of its light.
He then created the sun, moon, and stars.
He reached down into Lake Titicaca and drew out the Sun and Moon to provide light so he could admire his new creation.
In those days, the Moon was even brighter than the Sun, but the Sun grew jealous and threw ashes onto the Moon's face.
The moon-woman Hánuxa caused the flood because she was full of hatred against the people, especially the men, who had taken over the women's secret kina ceremony and made it their own.
When Jaguars Ate the Moon, and Other Stories About Animals and Plants of the Americas, Holt, New York, 1995.
The speaker notes the new moon in Taurus, feeling an uplifting energy in the heart space and an openness to possibilities.
Peru, worshipping the sun and moon and planets, probably represents very closely the simple and primitive religion of Atlantis, with its sacrifices of fruits and flowers.
Sin was the goddess of the moon.
397): "My notion would be that the sun, moon, and stars, earth, and heaven, which are still the gods of many barbarians, were the only gods known to the aboriginal Hellenes.
When we read that Jove whipped his wife, and threw her son out of the window, the inference is that Jove was a man, and actually did something like the thing described; certainly gods, sublimated spirits, aerial sprites, do not act after this fashion; and it would puzzle the mythmakers to prove that the sun, moon, or stars whipped their wives or flung recalcitrant young men out of windows.
The Peruvians called gold the tears of the sun: it was sacred to, the sun, as silver was to the moon.
The Mexicans represent an eclipse of the moon as the moon being devoured by a dragon; and the Hindoos have precisely the same figure; and both nations continued to use this expression long after they had discovered the real meaning of an eclipse.
These two peoples, separated by the great ocean, were baptized alike in infancy with blessed water; they prayed alike to the gods; they worshipped together the sun, moon, and stars; they confessed their sins alike; they were instructed alike by an established priesthood; they were married in the same way and by the joining of hands; they armed themselves with the same weapons; when children came, the man, on both continents, went to bed and left his wife to do the honors of the household; they tattooed and painted themselves in the same fashion; they became intoxicated on kindred drinks; their dresses were alike; they cooked in the same manner; they used the same metals; they employed the same exorcisms and bleedings for disease; they believed alike in ghosts, demons, and fairies; they listened to the same stories; they played the same games; they used the same musical instruments; they danced the same dances, and when they died they were embalmed in the same way and buried sitting; while over them were erected, on both continents, the same mounds, pyramids, obelisks, and temples.
He lived in the sun, while his wife Chia occupied the moon.
This would appear to be an allusion to the worship of the sun and moon.
After describing a time "when there was nothing but sea-water on top of the land," and the creation of sun, moon, stars, earth, and man, the legend depicts the Golden Age and the Fall in these words: "All were willingly pleased, all were easy-thinking, and all were well-happified.