He did away with the idolatrous priests appointed by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the towns of Judah and on those around Jerusalem—those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations and to all the starry hosts.
Description: This term refers to the celestial bodies (sun, moon, stars) that were worshipped as deities or divine beings.
Josiah removed the priests who conducted worship at high places and those who burned incense to Baal, the sun, moon, constellations, and the host of heaven (2 Kings 23:5).
The moon goddess of the Phoenicians, representing the passive principle in nature, their principal female deity; frequently associated with the name of Baal, the sun-god, their chief male deity ( Judges 10:6 ; 1 Samuel 7:4 ; 12:10 ).
He did away with the idolatrous priests appointed by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the towns of Judah and on those around Jerusalem—those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations and to all the starry hosts.
Two gods, Tecuciztecatl and Nanahuatzin, sacrificed themselves by leaping into a great fire, becoming the sun and the moon, respectively.
In deep gratitude for their deliverance, Nuu offered a sacrifice of a pig, coconuts, and awa to the moon, believing it to be the god Kane.
Nuu, mistaking the moon for the god Kane, offers a sacrifice.
Depiction: Shiva is depicted with a third eye on his forehead, a crescent moon in his hair, and the Ganga river flowing from his locks.
After the flood receded, Nuʻu landed on Mauna Kea and made offerings to the moon, mistaking it for his god, Kāne.
Just look at yonder moon: it rises, falls, comes up and goes down again; the same unvarying round forever and forever.
They all rise, grow, flow, reach a perihelion splendor, and then a night, and then again a new moon, a new day.
Inner Earth is depicted as a beautiful place, with an ocean and a sun that is less intense than our surface sun, combining qualities of the sun and moon.
The oceans in inner Earth are mentioned to move similarly to surface oceans, although it's not clear if there are tides influenced by the sun and moon as on the surface.
They floated around for a full moon waiting for the water to go down.
We read of Arcturus, Orion—'the sweet belts of Orion,' of Pleiades, and 'the sweet chambers of the South,' and even with eclipses of sun and moon."
They say that most of them are touched by the moon.
1 Now a great sign was seen in heaven — a woman clothed with the sun, under her feet the moon, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
The masculine was represented by the sun, and the feminine by the moon, incorporating the elements of fire, earth, water, and air.
These included the Sun, gems, the dragon (emblem of the sun), the moon and stars, oxen, cats, frogs and other animals.
We meet Mah, the priest of the Moon, and the whole court at the feast: princes, Tzantans of Talascan, warriors of Trocoatla.
The March of Huitza Azta takes Asia into the Temple of the Moon.
Gold and silver held sacred significance across various ancient cultures, often associated with the sun and the moon.
Gold, with its brilliant luster, was associated with the sun, while silver, with its cooler, reflective surface, was linked to the moon.
Assyria: Gold and silver were dedicated to the sun and moon, respectively.
A pyramid in the palace of Nineveh featured stages covered in different colors representing celestial bodies, with gold at the top symbolizing the sun and silver representing the moon.
in the great temple at Mitzla, 'the City of the Moon,' in Ojaaca, Central America.
Their temples were on those "high-places." The most ancient pyramids in Mexico are at Teotihuacan, eight leagues from the city of Mexico; the two largest were dedicated to the sun and moon respectively, each built of cut stone, with a level area at the summit, and four stages leading up to it.
He considers the analogy established in eleven particulars, as follows: 1, the site chosen is the same; 2, the structures are orientated with slight variation; 3, the line through the centres of the structures is in the astronomical meridian; 4, the construction in grades and steps is the same; 5, in both cases the larger pyramids are dedicated to the sun; 6, the Nile has "a valley of the dead," as in Teotihuacan there is "a street of the dead;" 7, some monuments in each class have the nature of fortifications; 8, the smaller mounds are of the same nature and for the same purpose; 9, both pyramids have a small mound joined to one of their faces; 10, the openings discovered in the Pyramid of the Moon are also found in some Egyptian pyramids; 11, the interior arrangements of the pyramids are analogous.
Donnelly claims that Peru, "worshipping the sun and moon and planets," with "its sacrifices of fruits and flowers," keeps the old religion of Atlantis most closely.
Donnelly gives the Babylonian trinity as Hea, Anu and Bel, with Bel as the sun and the favourite god, and Sin as the goddess of the moon.
The one thing missed there is the sight of the stars, the moon, and the sun, and a year seems only as a day.'
The Manu arranged for groups of egos, or souls, to come in from the Moon Chain.
According to the book, the Chain before ours was the lunar Chain, and its globe D is now our Moon.
About 100,000 B.C.: a tribe of the fifth sub-race, which the Stanzas of Dzyan call the “moon-coloured race”, lived in the mountains north of Ruta.