The Myths of Shintoism
The myths often centered around key deities like Amaterasu, the sun goddess, who was believed to be the ancestor of the imperial family.
Amaterasu – the sun goddess, born from washing his left eye.
This myth symbolizes the importance of the sun, harmony, and rituals to maintain balance.
Flood Stories from Around the World
Then Ziusudra opened a window in the large boat, allowing sunlight to enter, and he prostrated himself before the sun-god Utu.
For protecting the animals and the seed of mankind, he was granted eternal life and taken to the country of Dilmun, where the sun rises.
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.
God gave mankind a final week of grace during which the sun reversed course, but the wicked men did not repent; they only mocked Noah for building the ark.
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.
A woman "clothed with the sun" gave birth to a man child who was taken up by God.
Lower Congo:The sun once met the moon and threw mud at it, making it dimmer.
He planted palms, asked Olorun to create the sun, and, in time, created people from sculpted clay.
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.
The heroic king Manu, son of the Sun, practiced austere fervor in Malaya and attained transcendent union with the Deity.
It said that a hundred years of drought and famine would begin this day, which would be followed by fires from the sun and from underground that would consume the earth and the ether, destroying this world, the gods, and the planets.
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.
Sui (southern Guizhou, China, along Long and Duliu rivers):Grandpa Xiang and his wife Ya lived at the food of Sun mountain, barely getting by.
After a year, Xiang went back to his village and invited the people to live up on Sun Mountain with him.
The golden dragon shook his body, and the upper half of Sun Mountain erupted into the sky.
This statue and the lower part of Sun Mountain can be seen near the town of Shuilong.
One gourd vine grew up a mountain and was scorched by the sun.
He opened the seven paths of the sun's rays and closed the nine paths of rain, causing draught over the earth.
He closed the seven paths of the sun's rays and opened the nine paths of rain.
They were uncertain whether it would be proper for them to marry, so they asked the sun as it rose the next morning.
The sun answered immediately that they may marry.
The sun had not yet been created, so it was dark; when it grew light, they saw seven small rhododendron shrubs and seven clumps of sambau grass.
Then the sun, moon, and stars were extinguished.
When this happens, men will either be transported to heaven or cast into a flaming cauldron; the sun will approach close to our world, and its flame will join with the cauldron's fire to consume the material universe.
When the flood ended and the sun shone again, the kangaroo called animals together to discover how the platypus family had fared.
As the sun set, the ocean waters began to rise and continued rising all night.
Tlingit (southern Alaska coast):Yehl, the Raven, created man, caused the plants to grow, and set the sun, moon, and stars in their places.
A mouse nibbled a hole in the leather bag which contained the sun's heat, and the heat escaped and melted all the snow in an instant.
Kootenay (southeast British Columbia):A small gray bird, despite the prohibition of her husband (a chicken hawk, Accipiter cooperi), bathed in a certain lake after picking berries in the hot sun.
Bella Coola (British Columbia):Masmasalanich, who created man, fastened the earth to the sun to keep the earth from sinking and to keep the sun at the proper distance.
Skagit (Washington):The Creator made the earth and gave four names for it -- for the sun, waters, soil and forests.
Then they made the sun and moon.
There was only water, no wind, rain, frost, clouds, or sun.
Wakara welcomed Pun Miaupa formally, but then went to his brother Tuina (sun) to see what he thought of Halai Auna's new husband.
Juiwaiyu told the sun to be slow so their journey may be done in one day.
She bore a son, fathered by the sun, and a daughter, fathered by a waterfall; these two repopulated the world.
Blackfoot (Alberta and Montana):The Sun, the Moon, and their two children "Old Man" and "Apistotoki God" began creating the world.
Timagami Ojibway (Canada):Nenebuc, son of the Sun and a mortal woman, saw some lions in a great lake.
He waited for them to come to shore to sun themselves, disguising himself by wrapping around himself some birch bark from a rotten stump.
It also told where the water-spirits sun themselves.
Wenebojo went to the bank of a lake where the manidog sometimes come out to sun themselves; he turned himself into a stump and waited four days.
He restored the muskrat to life, dried the grains in the sun, and threw them on the water, forming a small island.
The bird described how the manidog sun themselves.
Then he turned himself to a stump by the lake and waited for the manidog to sun themselves.
Manobozho caused the sun to shine fiercely on the lake to drive out Meshekenabek and his companions.
The sun shone on the hide, shrinking it until all that was left was a rainbow arch.
The bird flapped, moaned dolorously, and guided the raft towards where the sun was breaking through.
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.
Papago (Arizona):Back when the sun was closer to the earth, Coyote foresaw the coming of a flood, gnawed down a great tree, entered it, and sealed the opening.
The Great Mystery raised the sun to its present height and, with an earthquake, destroyed the tower that Montezuma was building into the heavens, in the process changing languages so that people could no longer understand animals or other tribes.
Spider Clan, Blue Flute Clan, Fire Clan, Snake Clan, and Sun Clan traveled together on the Hopi migrations.
Toltec (Mexico):One of the Tezcatlipocas (sons of the original dual god) transformed himself into the Sun and created the first humans to show up his brothers.
The other gods, angry at his audacity, had Quetzalcoatl destroy the sun and the earth, which he did with a flood.
The second, third, and fourth Suns ended, respectively, with the crumbling of the heavens, a rain of fire, and devastating winds.
The sun of 4 Water lasted 676 years; then the heavens came down in one day, and the people were inundated and transformed into fish.
This was before the sun dawned on the earth.
They worked in darkness, as the sun had not yet appeared.
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.
Ipurina (Upper Amazon):Birds flew all over the world collecting things that decayed and threw them in a great kettle of water that boiled in sun.
At that time, the sun and moon were hidden.
The first kernel that the sloth threw down fell on hard ground, and the sun appeared again, but it was very small.
The second kernel he threw fell in water, and the sun grew larger.
As the third kernel fell in deeper water, the sun grew more, and so on until the sun reached its present size.
The kettle still stands in the sun, but it is empty.
From this river came the sun, who began his regular course and brought an orderly axis to the world.
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 people took refuge on a mountain called Thegtheg ("thundering" or "sparkling") which floated close to the sun.
Afterwards, whenever the Araucanians felt an earthquake, they would flee to the hills carrying bowls to protect their heads from the sun's heat.
The sun sank into the sea, causing its waters to rise tumultuously and to cover all the earth except the summit of a single mountain.
Continual Growth Through the Different Planes of Existence
This directional growth aligns with the sun's movement, representing enlightenment and life cycles.
Everyone Needs A Sacred Space – Native American (Navajo) Teaching
The ceremony follows a specific ritual direction, mirroring the daily movement of light from the sun across the Hogan’s interior walls.
Ancestral Lineages & Ancient Memories Restored
This technique involves visualizing the light from the Great Central Sun entering through the crown chakra and moving through the spine to ground oneself in Earth's energy.
This Comet is unlike any other
According to the Tal Anori, the Sun functions as a multidimensional portal, channeling energy into Earth.
The Tal Anori highlight that the period from October 12 through the end of the month is a significant window for transformation, during which the energies from the comet and the Sun will merge powerfully.
The island of Erytheia
It was linked to the setting sun, a motif of death, transition, and the distant west, which was often viewed as a gateway to the afterlife in Greek thought.
The Kings of Atlantis become the Gods of the Greeks
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.
We find the Egyptians in their early ages sun and planet worshippers.
He is the father of the god of the sun, the ruler of the region of light.
Ra was the sun-god.
Bel represented the sun, and was the favorite god.
The Phœnicians were also sun-worshippers.
The sun was represented by Baal-Samin, the great god, the god of light and the heavens, the creator and rejuvenator.
"The attributes of both Baal and Moloch (the good and bad powers of the sun) were united in the Phœnician god Melkart, "king of the city," whom the inhabitants of Tyre considered their special patron.
By his great strength and power he turned evil into good, brought life out of destruction, pulled back the sun to the earth at the time of the solstices, lessened excessive beat and cold, and rectified the evil signs of the zodiac.
The Egyptians worshipped the sun under the name of Ra; the Hindoos worshipped the sun under the name of Rama; while the great festival of the sun, of the Peruvians, was called Ray-mi.
Sun-worship, as the ancient religion of Atlantis, underlies all the superstitions of the colonies of that country.
The Samoyed woman says to the sun, "When thou, god, risest, I too rise from my bed." Every morning even now the Brahmans stand on one foot, with their hands held out before them and their faces turned to the east, adoring the sun.
"In Germany or France one may still see the peasant take off his hat to the rising sun." ("Anthropology," p.
361.) The Romans, even, in later times, worshipped the sun at Emesa, under the name of Elagabalus, "typified in the form of a black conical stone, which it was believed had fallen from heaven." The conical stone was the emblem of Bel.
Sun-worship was the primitive religion of the red men of America.
338.) The Chichimecs called the sun their father.
58.) Atlas was described in Greek mythology as "an enormous giant, who stood upon the western confines of the earth, and supported the heavens on his shoulders, in a region of the west where the sun continued to shine after he had set upon Greece." (Ibid., p.
Greek tradition located the island in which Olympus was situated "in the far west," "in the ocean beyond Africa," "on the western boundary of the known world," "where the sun shone when it had ceased to shine on Greece," and where the mighty Atlas "held up the heavens." And Plato tells us that the land where Poseidon and Atlas ruled was Atlantis.
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.
The modern theory that the gods of Greece never had any personal existence, but represented atmospheric and meteorological myths, the movements of clouds, planets, and the sun, is absurd.
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.
58) that Pluto's share of the kingdom was supposed to lie "in the remote west." The under-world of the dead was simply the world below the western horizon; "the home of the dead has to do with that far west region where the sun dies at night." ("Anthropology," p.
And when the sun set, this being, Oannes, retired again into the sea, and passed the night in the deep, for he was amphibious.
where the sun shines after it has ceased to shine on Greece."
Traditions of Atlantis
296.) In other words, an ancient, sun-worshipping, powerful, and conquering race overran Arabia at the very dawn of history; they were the sons of Adlantis: their king tried to create a palace and garden of Eden like that of Atlantis.
All this reminds one of the descriptions given by the Spaniards of the temples of the sun in Peru.
325.) They "worshipped the sun from the tops of pyramids." (Ibid.) They believed in the immortality of the soul.
The sun is sometimes addressed as an Aditya.
75.) While the famous Mexican calendar stone shows that the sun was commonly called tonatiuh but when it was referred to as the god of the Deluge it was then called Atl-tona-ti-uh, or At-onatiuh.
The Origin of Our Alphabet
Landa's D (T) is a disk with lines inside the four quarters, the allowed Mexican symbol for a day or sun.
[paragraph continues]So far as sound is concerned, the English day represents it; so far as the form is concerned, the Egyptian 'cake,' ideograph for (1) country and (2) the sun's orbit is essentially the same."
Genesis contains a history of Atlantis
The Aztec legend says, "The sun was much nearer the earth then than now, and his grateful warmth rendered clothing unnecessary."
"In the beginning, before the light of the sun had been created, this land (Cholula) was in obscurity and darkness, and void of any created thing; all was a plain, without hill or elevation, encircled in every part by water, without tree or created thing; and immediately after the light and the sun arose in the east there appeared gigantic men of deformed stature and possessed the land, and desiring to see the nativity of the sun, as well as his occident, proposed to go and seek them.
Dividing themselves into two parties, some journeyed to the west and others toward the east; these travelled; until the sea cut off their road, whereupon they determined to return to the place from which they started, and arriving at this place (Cholula), not finding the means of reaching the sun, enamored of his light and beauty, they determined to build a tower so high that its summit should reach the sky.
Having collected materials for the purpose, they found a very adhesive clay and bitumen, with which they speedily commenced to build the tower; and having reared it to the greatest possible altitude, so that they say it reached to the sky, the Lord of the Heavens, enraged, said to the inhabitants of the sky, 'Have you observed how they of the earth have built a high and haughty tower to mount hither, being enamored of the light of the sun and
They were sun-worshippers;
for we are told "they were enamored of the light and beauty of the sun," and they built a high place for his worship.
They built it to reach the sun--that is to say, as a sun-temple; while in the Bible record Babel was built to perpetuate the glory of its architects.
"And the Lord said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel.
William Tell never existed; he is a myth; a survival of the sun-god Apollo, Indra, who was worshipped on the altars of Atlantis.
Corroborating Circumstances
And we find some corroboration of the latter theory in that singular book of the Quiches, the "Popol Vuh," in which, after describing the creation of the first men "in the region of the rising sun" (Bancroft's "Native Races," vol.
Here they awaited the rising of the sun, and prayed to the Heart of Heaven." (Bancroft's "Native Races," p.
American Evidences of Intercourse with Europe Or Atlantis
says: "Four persons came from Tulan, from the direction of the rising sun--that is one Tulan.
where the sun sets, and it is there that we came; and in the direction of the setting sun there is another, where is the god; so that there are four Tulans; and it is where the sun sets that we came to Tulan, from the other side of the sea, where this Tulan is; and it is there that we were conceived and begotten by our mothers and fathers."
Samé, the great name of Brazilian legend, came across the ocean from the rising sun.
Like him, Bochica, the great law-giver of the Muyscas, and son of the sun--he who invented for them the calendar and regulated their festivals--had a white beard, a detail in which all the American culture-heroes agree.
The Indentity of the Civilizations of the Old World and the New
The Peruvians called gold the tears of the sun: it was sacred to, the sun, as silver was to the moon.
Religion.--The religion of the Atlanteans, as Plato tells us, was pure and simple; they made no regular sacrifices but fruits and flowers; they worshipped the sun.
In Peru a single deity was worshipped, and the sun, his most glorious work, was honored as his representative.
The first religion of Egypt was pure and simple; its sacrifices were fruits and flowers; temples were erected to the sun, Ra, throughout Egypt.
In Peru the great festival of the sun was called Ra-mi.
The Phœnicians worshipped Baal and Moloch; the one represented the beneficent, and the other the injurious powers of the sun.
The Egyptian priest of Sais told Solon that the myth of Phaëthon, the son of Helios, having attempted to drive the chariot of the sun, and thereby burning up the earth, referred to "a declination of the bodies moving round the earth and in the heavens" (comets), which caused a "great conflagration upon the earth," from which those only escaped who lived near rivers and seas.
The "Codex Chimalpopoca"--a Nahua, Central American record--tells us that the third era of the world, or "third sun," is called, Quia Tonatiuh, or sun of rain, "because in this age there fell a rain of fire, all which existed burned, and there fell a rain of gravel;" the rocks "boiled with tumult, and there also arose the rocks of vermilion color." In other words, the traditions of these people go back to a great cataclysm of fire, when the earth possibly encountered, as in the Egyptian story, one of "the bodies moving round the earth and in the heavens;" they had also memories of "the Drift Period," and of the outburst of Plutonic rocks.
The ancient Mexicans believed that the sun-god would destroy the world in the last night of the fifty-second year, and that he would never come back.
Precisely the same custom obtained among the nations of Asia Minor and other parts of the continent of Asia, wherever sun-worship prevailed, at the periodical reproduction of the sacred fire, but not with the same bloody rites as in Mexico.
The Peruvians renewed every year all the fires of the kingdom from the Temple of the Sun, the new fire being kindled from concave mirrors by the sun's rays.
If the legend of Cadmus recovering Europa, after she has been carried away by the white bull, the spotless cloud, means that "the sun must journey westward until he sees again the beautiful tints which greeted his eyes in the morning," it is curious to find a story current in North America to the effect that a man once had a beautiful daughter, 'whom he forbade to leave the lodge lest she should be carried off by the king of the buffaloes; and that as she sat, notwithstanding, outside the house combing her hair, "all of a sudden the king of the buffaloes came dashing on, with his herd of followers, and, taking her between his horns, away be cantered over plains, plunged into a river which bounded his land, and carried her safely to his lodge on the other side," whence she was finally recovered by her father.
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.
Some Consideration of the Deluge Legends
In the Chaldean legends the god Ea ordered Khasisatra to inscribe the divine learning, and the principles of all sciences, on tables of terra-cotta, and bury them, before the Deluge, "in the City of the Sun at Sippara."
procedure, and conclusion of all things, and to bury it in the City of the Sun at Sippara, and to build a vessel," etc.
The Deluge Legends of America
"Then comes the fourth age, Atonatiuh, 'Sun of Water,' whose number is 10 X 400 + 8, or 4008.
"This is the sun called Nahui-atl, '4 water.' Now the water was tranquil for forty years, plus twelve, and men lived for the third and fourth times.
When the sun Nahui-atl came there had passed away four hundred years, plus two ages, plus seventy-six years.
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.
"In former times the father of the Indian tribes dwelt toward the rising sun.
"They informed him that one of their most ancient traditions was that, a great while ago, they had a common father, who lived toward the rising of the sun, and governed the whole world; that all the white people's heads were under his feet; that he had twelve sons, by whom he administered the government; that the twelve sons behaved very bad, and tyrannized over the people, abusing their power; that the Great Spirit, being thus angry with them, suffered the white people to introduce spirituous liquors among them, made them drunk, stole the special gift of the Great Spirit from them, and by this means usurped power over them; and ever since the Indians' heads were under the white people's feet." (Boudinot's "Star in the West," p.
Here we note that they looked "toward the rising sun"--toward Atlantis--for the original home of their race; that this
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.
Men, women, and children ascended by means of the vine, but, when about half the nation had reached the surface of the earth, a corpulent woman, who was clambering up the vine, broke it with her weight, and closed upon herself and the rest of the nation the light of the sun."
Long ago, when the sun was no bigger than a star, this strong medicine-woman ruled over what appears to have now become a lost island.
The Deluge Legends of Other Nations
Surt from the south comes with flickering flame; shines from his sword the Valgod's sun.
The sun darkens, earth in ocean sinks, fall from heaven the bright stars, fire's breath assails the all-nourishing, towering fire plays against heaven itself."
The following rude cut, from Cosmos, represents the high mountain in the north behind which the sun hid himself at night, thus producing the alternations of day and night.
Atlantis, Pyramids, Astrology, Solar Energy, ETs and more! (Part 1)
After the catastrophe, scattered survivors told stories of Lemuria, Atlantis, and a day when the sun stood still.
Pyramids were aligned with the stars and the sun to harness energy, facilitating a global communication network.
Interview with a Neanderthal (Part 1)
Tom explains that Neanderthals believed in celestial bodies like the sun and stars.
Secrets of the Great Pyramids of Giza (Part 2)
The Sphinx's original purpose was to act as a guardian and to channel energy from the sun, which enhanced the pyramids' power.
Secrets of the Great Pyramids of Giza (Part 1)
The alignment was also related to the rotation of the sun and the North Star.
Hermeticism and Ancient Mysteries
For instance, the Mithras religion represents the Sun deity killing a bull, symbolizing the transition from the Age of Taurus to the Age of Aries.
Life in Caiphul (5-1)
Reader, even in that far past age of the world truth was dawning, and this, in the morning of the cycle, was a first ray of the bright sun of Christianity, the orb which even yet is not arisen in the fullness of its glory.
I had that morning ridden in the same car with the first prophet who announced the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, exhorting all of his hearers so to live that their souls might be turned as virgin soil to the rising Sun of Truth, and thereby be made ready to receive the Master when, after the death of their then possessed corporeal bodies, they had returned to earth from Devachan as reincarnated souls.
Selestor’s Men of Atlantis
They came from where the sun set.
The rabble, creatures of the outcast-man in that young age when first the cities rose where serpents whirr in deadly stroke, and wolves howl long when night shuts down, and red men creep to labor or sun-warmth on sight of greatness that hath struck with awe the men of worlds now passed away.
It sprang to being from a wayside spray that God created for the birds which sang in that lost land, now sunk but shall arise again with all its drowned wealth of upbuilded fanes and walls and palaces which Ocean hides and laves, and yet rebuilds with shapes in pearl, and shell and life that drinketh deep of ocean life and knows not sun-shape.
Linen, too, they knew; but this was brought in galleys from that land whose people passed and in their place had sprung a savage horde who knew the dregs of birth as in that day when first man sprang from force of nature; cradled in the cloud and rocked by winds, and warmed by Sun and fed on God's own atmosphere.
deep vibrations borne from far in circles, as vibrations trend, smote the sheet of luminated composition—silk and metal particles—they made a rhythmic melody of worth which sages studied to determine storm forecast or fate of sun-smote country, passing of a storm upon the desert, peoples on a raid, the nearness of a foe, while all swung to a tune remote or near as circles broken did denote the foreign body in the rhythmic whirl of vibratory coil; for Circle is Eternity!
[paragraph continues]Earth and harm has come to us who dig and delve, and strive to carry to each dome and build such structures as the very sun doth mock.
Sun language read they.
Mark we, too, the laws that govern Sun irradiating worlds.
A woman nurtured tenderly was made to kneel on stones, protected from the sun's fierce rays, and there for weeks ye number twelve each day did kneel with arms upraised to gods.
Then lower: "Speak not of thy departure, for the sun will hide its face when thou shalt pass from view!"
The captain of the fleet, ye call—a fleet which challenged sun-rays shot with gold, which cast its sheen for miles over quiet sea, or fought the waves as valiantly as tiger meets its foe—the captain of this royal fleet was Wanandred—captain of the hosts of sea.
He came from far—from where pale faces met the pallid sun, the cold of icebergs.
Thus each captain's god was borne aloft; and as the sun shot up or sank beneath the water, seemingly, each man of all the fleet did lift his voice and cry:
Thus they spake: "The dogs do prowl from fierce Atlantis’ shore!" Or thus: "We need protection, and it comes from dear Atlantis—sister in our need." And never greater or a braver fleet had borne the sun-light on its armoured sides since time began.
Ornaments were made, some beautiful, and all were prized, for instinct seemed to recognize the purity of gold which they taught God had made of sun-rays smiting rock that held the greatest sulphide matter.
Sulphide—a casting out from soil, drawn by the sun rays, and the kindred heat of inner fires.
The intense, creative heat which beat upon this and other globes when directly focussed by the sun-rays which were at that period much nearer and the globes unprotected by haze or separate planes or systems of ether as now exist, cannot be described by numbers—statistics—now employed.
Egypt, land of sun, of sand, of mighty river which drank deep of blood of sacrifice!
when the heart of earth had ceased to beat within the body that I called my own, I deemed not that thy sun had set!
Of them who bowed in grief at thought of palace walls which, kissed by Sun, shot out such gleams of light as comes from towers fair set with polished stones.
Great trunks of cypress shut the sun from faces dark, and eyes that blazed with feeling looked with awe—with pity, too, upon the son of him who for a beauteous face cast off the bloom of kingly tree.
And in the center of one mighty dome in temple old, well builded, rose and always rose the sun in waves of rare sardonyx; sun of gold and other burnished metal casting out such sheen that Sun indeed it seemed.
The sea doth sparkle, sun-smote, as I tell the tale.
ye call the circles which the sun doth breed, had passed when Nature rent the spot within the bosom of the southern sea and forth belched baleful motion, terror, scourge, and all engulfed went forth the souls from form.
In carven casket midst the mouldering specks of husk shall be revealed thy history ere this hand that pens is stilled, and Earth may read what once the sun hath witnessed; message old, dug from the earth, and written by the hand of him who held the scepter first to Egypt known, Osiris—king!
Yet priceless store still lies where camels browse and other creatures stamp in angry mood, and toiling man seeks rest from burning sun.
"Oh man of worth," spake he, “the plains lie to the northward in the sun that thou couldst people with thy slaves and kin and garner greatest wealth.
Spake one: “Thou shalt know a people all thine own ere thou goest hence to that, unseen, far land which shadows people, and where light that laves doth draw its glow and worth from out a Heart that once was all when Earth revolved about a central Sun that held the Life-spark.
I watched them sail—those brothers who with me had wandered far—and then turned I and mine our faces to the eastern sun, intent on seeking burial place, for to this end doth man forever trend.
Of those who perished on the great sea flight, of others of the tribe who now abode neath Orient sun.
Far below the sea danced in the light of sun just rising.
“About their limbs are tangled cords of silk, each cunningly concealing fiery veins, I wist, encased in metal which to pierce means death when foemen clutch, but well the body bath of wearer doth protect so as a ray of noon-day sun it feels, nor harms.
Sanguine hue, a redder than the light which sun casts ere it sinks behind the hills of Ocean.
Who faced the south was sun-smote.
Sun-rays smote less the eye, nor carried shadow of a burnished blade to orb with such intensity.
It shut the sun-light from the field of strife and caused a chill to creep upon each warrior there.
Where vapor forms in whorls and added growth makes spirals, branching, that which to our eyes is but the mist which sun drinks.
The sun strikes sheen on spears
The sun danced on the dimpling sea.
The sun shone on the galley's spears.
The fête—the birthday of the monarch's son, young Ambisamis, born to wear a crown in that same year when the great sea-fight fell; for died his sire ere the sun set upon that fête day.
What warrior leads today our fête that blooms to battle's fuller rose whose petals, dyed in blood, shall meet the sun?
Bid him speak to men as slowly as the sun steps to its rounds from out the ocean when the morn is clear and naught disturbeth Nature.
The sun set like a fiery wheel, of air and many leagues to North the invading fleet still lay.
Up higher rose the sun.
"O beauteous isle of sea and sun, I come with arms outstretched to seek a welcome!"
Sunk the sun and bright as burnished silver swung the Tropic Moon, her million lamps all lighted.
By tens and tens they hurled them to the wondering eyes until the sea seemed filled with flying boats that caught the sun on spear-point, helm; and prow gave back the color of the rising sun.
Ah, bright the sun bore on the armored hordes!
Soft and low the call as mother's to her babe, then loud and clear, then angry murmur swelling, later fell in fierce glad cry of victory as sunk the sun to rest, the sun which vied in blood-red glow with foam upon the waves of stranger hue, all spotted with the life-blood from the veins of men so brave their names were spake with reverence by younger lips that followed o’er the sea.
“As the sun sinks!
The sun had set ere called the gods the soul of him, the king, to realms of peace.
“Tonight Earth's sun doth set for me indeed, but subjects spring around me on the ether planes where soul doth trend.
The unfixed condition of worlds at that early age caused the vast upheaval which destroyed the fairest spot the sun has shone upon in its rounds of aeons.
heaped high with shells of broad and comely shape, or wriggling fins and scales agleam with hues that borrowed yet another color from the sun still rising—rising soon to look upon a scene of wild confusion, storm and death!
“Look well, O lords, and cease to talk of good to land or to estate, for all shall pass as the mist of morn rolls upward, drunk by Sun—the essence of that Life which holdeth all.”
And as it ceased in measure all arose, with faces rivaling the marble walls and sought the court which led into the street, and where in wild confusion swept the throngs on through the darkling streets, for the sun, which shone as blood, had hid its face in clouds of deadly vapour, dense and black, and damp and steaming with a substance foul to breathe as floats the breath of "hell."
Yet higher, where the pointed mountain sides smiled green and fruitful, some had lingered still with horror on their faces, for where the land had blossomed like the rose, and fane and palace, mart and builded wall, and forests vast had stood, when the sun went down was but a swirl of foam, of writhing, hungry waves that seeming mounted upwards, upwards fast ascending to the eye.
a quiver and a roar marked moment when the land that mocked the sun went down!
The Story of Atlantis
In like manner in both hemispheres the worship of the sun-disk or circle, and of the serpent, was universal, and more surprising still is the similarity of the word signifying "God" in the principal languages of east and west.
Like the Egyptians they embalmed their dead, they worshipped sun, moon, and planets, but over and above these adored a Deity "omnipresent, who knoweth all things ...
Their rites of sun and fire worship closely resembled those of the early Kelts of Britain and Ireland, and like the latter they claimed to be the "children of the sun." An ark or argha was one of the universal sacred symbols which we find alike in India, Chaldea, Assyria, Egypt, Greece and amongst the Keltic peoples.
Amongst the Indians of North America there is a very general legend that their forefathers came from a land "toward the[15] sun-rising." The Iowa and Dakota Indians, according to Major J.
These were used for astronomical observations and for sun-worship.
The other half was divided between the Inca and the priesthood who celebrated the worship of the sun.
The remaining fourth—"the lands of the sun"—provided not only for the priests who conducted the public worship throughout the empire, but for the entire education of the people in schools and colleges, for all sick and infirm persons, and finally, for every inhabitant (exclusive, of course, of the governing class for whom there was no cessation of work) on reaching the age of forty-five, that being the age arranged for the hard work of life to cease, and for leisure and enjoyment to begin.[62]
The Tlavatli while inheriting the traditional reverence and worship for the Manu, were taught by Adept instructors of the existence of a Supreme Being whose symbol was recognized as the sun.
They thus developed a sort of sun worship, for the practice of which they repaired to the hill tops.
These were intended to be symbolical of the sun's yearly course, but they were also used for astronomical purposes—being placed so that, to one standing at the high altar, the sun would rise at the winter solstice behind one of these monoliths, at the vernal equinox behind another, and so on throughout the year.
The nearest approach which the most gifted teacher could make in attempting to convey any idea of the nameless and all-pervading essence of the Kosmos was necessarily imparted in the form of symbols, and the sun naturally enough was the first symbol adopted.
Sun and fire worship then became the cult for the celebration of which magnificent temples were reared throughout the length and breadth of the continent of Atlantis, but more especially in the great "City of the Golden Gates"—the temple service being performed by retinues of priests endowed by the State for that purpose.
The sun-disk was considered the only appropriate emblem of the godhead, and as such was used in every temple, a golden disk being generally placed so as to catch the first rays of the rising sun at the vernal equinox or at the summer solstice.
An interesting example of the almost unalloyed survival of this worship of the sun-disk may be instanced in the Shinto ceremonies of Japan.
But the sun-disk did not always remain the only permissible emblem of Deity.
We have seen how the life and light giving attributes of the sun were in early times used as the symbol to bring before the minds of the people all that they were capable of conceiving of the great First Cause.
In the great Toltec empire of Mexico the sun-worship of their forefathers was still the national religion, while the bloodless offerings to their beneficent Deity, Quetzalcoatl, consisted merely of flowers and fruit.
But a brighter sun now shines on the Aryan race than that which lit the path of their Atlantean forefathers.
Timaeus & Critias
The cultivated fruit [i.e., of the vine] also, and the dry [i.e., corn], which serves us for nutriment, and all the other kinds that we use for our meals--the various species of which are comprehended under the name ‘vegetables’--and all the produce of trees which affords liquid and solid food and unguents [i.e., the olive], and the fruit of the orchard-trees, so hard to store, which is grown for the sake of amusement and pleasure [i.e., the pomegranate or apple], and all the after-dinner fruits [i.e., the citron] that we serve up as welcome remedies for the sufferer from repletion,--all these that hallowed island, as it lay then beneath the sun, produced in marvellous beauty and endless abundance.
The Oera Linda Book
It is mentioned, moreover, as a striking fact, that in the summer the sun at midday was straight above their heads.
Time is the carrier who must eternally turn the “Jol” (wheel) and carry the sun along his course through the [xxii]firmament from winter to winter, thus forming the year, every turn of the wheel being a day.
Then cakes are baked in the form of the sun’s wheel, because with the Jol Frya formed the letters when she wrote her “Tex.” The Jolfeest is therefore also in honour of Frya as inventor of writing.
Like the rays of the sun shone the locks of her hair, which were as fine as spiders’ webs.
Afterwards they learned our writing—that is, the Finns, the Thyriers, and the Krekalanders—but they did not know that it was taken from the Juul, and most therefore always be written round like the sun.
The sun rose higher, and there was seldom frost.
In the fields we had not only barley, oats, and rye, but wheat which shone like gold, and which could be baked in the sun’s rays.
During the whole summer the sun had been hid behind the clouds, as if unwilling to look upon the earth.
When the fog rose, the sun scarcely appeared among the clouds; but the people all came out shouting with joy, and the young folks went about singing to their bagpipes, filling the air with their melody.
She continued, When Frya was born, our mother stood naked and bare, unprotected from the rays of the sun.
This is the way in which we became possessed of houses and porches, a street, and lime-trees to protect us from the rays of the sun.
The fortification outside is an hour long—not a seaman’s hour, but an hour of the sun, of which twenty-four go to a day.
Its shape is three-cornered, with the widest part outside, so that the sun may shine in it, for there are a great number of foreign trees and flowers brought by the seafarers.
Some shone [153]like the sun.
When the days are at the longest, and the sun is in the zenith, a man’s body has no shadow.
If you sail very far to the south and look to the east at midday, the sun shines on your left side as it does in other countries on the right side.