Beginning of the 5th Root Race
A kind of crater, where the sun was reflected from the rocks, served as a forcing-house and they produced there a fruit of the size of a cocoa-nut, of which they seemed to be inordinately proud.
While these seismic changes were in progress, the Manu's community was left undisturbed by absolute cleavagfe or change of surface ; but the people were constantly terrified by the recurring earthquakes, and were almost paralysed by the fear that the sun (which had been rendered invisible for a year by masses of cloud, largely composed of fine dust) had gone out for ever.
Turanian, in Ancient Chaldaea.
Peruvian Religion: Simple, joyous sun-worship.
The temples were arranged to symbolize the solar system, with the Sun temple at the center.
It will be remembered that among the Peruvians the religious cult was a simple but extremely beautiful form of Sun-worship, or rather worship of the Spirit of the Sun ; its tenets were few and clear, and its chief characteristic was its all-pervading spirit of joyousness.
It was not the Sun alone that was reverenced there, but all the Host of Heaven, and the religion was in fact an exceedingly elaborate scheme of worship of the great Star-Angels, including within it, as a practical guide to daily life, a comprehen-
All its physical constituents — the sun with his worderful corona, all the planets with their satellites, their oceans, their atmospheres, and the various ethers surrounding them — all these collectively made up His physical body, the expression of Him on the physical plane.
Certain daily hours of prayer, regulated by the apparent movements of the sun, were observed by all alike ; at sunrise, noon, and sunset, certain anthems or verses were chanted by the priests at the temples, and the more religious of the people made a point of being regularly present at these short services, while those who could not conveniently attend them nevertheless observed each of these hours by the recitation of a few pious phrases of praise and prayer.
Each of the planets had as signed to it at least two great feast days in the year and the Sun and Moon appropriated considerably more than two.
B: far the largest and the most splendid of all was th huge temple of the Sun, which it will presently b< necessary to describe somewhat more in detail.
The difference in size between the Sun and the smaller members of his family is so immense, and the distances between them are so enormous, that unless the buildings were mere dolls ' houses no country would be large enough to contain the entire system.
The shrines devoted to the inner planets made a sort of irregular cluster which seemed quite close under the walls of the great Sun-Temple, while those of the giant outer members of the solar family were dotted at ever-increasing intervals over the plain, until the representative of far-away Neptune was almost lost in the distance.
The dress worn by the followers of the Sun was a beautifully delicate silken material, all interwoven with gold threads, so that it appeared a veritable cloth of gold.
Vulcan's hue was flame-colour, striking, gorgeous, and distinctive — possibly typical of the extreme propinquity of Vulcan to the Sun, and the fiery physical conditions that must obtain there.
The garments of the Moon were naturally of white material, but so interwoven with threads of silver that practically it might be called cloth of silver, as the Sun's was cloth of gold.
But the grandest display of all was at one of the great feasts of the Sun-God, when the people came together, each robed in the gorgeous vestment of his tutelary Deity, and the whole immense multitude performed the solemn circumambulation of the Suntemple.
On such an occasion the worshippers of the Sun filled the vast building to overflowing, while next to the walls marched the bands of Vulcan, next outside them those of Mercury, then the followers of Venus and so on, each planet being represented in the order of its position with reference to the Sun.
The whole mass of people, thus arranged in concentric rings of flashing colour, swept slowly, steadily round like a colossal living wheel, and, under the flood of living light poured down by that all but tropical Sun, they formed perhaps as brilliant a spectacle as the world has ever seen.
In order that some account may be given of the even more interesting ceremonies that took place on such occasions within that great temple of the Sun, it is necessary that we should attempt a description of its appearance and arrangement.
Joseph in a Catholic cathedral, fcr one of them was consecrated to the Sun and the other to the Moon, and some of the regular daily services connected with these two luminaries were celebrated at them.
The lighting of certain sacred fires when the Sun himself crossed the meridian was achieved by means of the same mechanism, though one of the most interesting ceremonies of this nature was always performed at the western altar.
The following morning the rays of the Sun, passing through an orifice above the eastern altar, fell directly upon that at the west end, and by means of a glass globe filled with water which was suspended in their path and acted as a lens, the Sun himself relit the sacred Moon-fire, which was then carefully tended and kept burning for another year.
The outside of this huge dome was thinly plated with gold ; and it was noteworthy that a peculiar dappled effect was produced on the surface, evidently intended to represent what are called the * willow-leaves ' or * ricegrains' of the Sun.
The only light admitted came through thick plates of a crystallike substance of various colours, which were let into the floor of the temple, but arrangements were made to reflect the sun's rays through this medium when necessary, and the priest who was practising his meditation allowed this reflected light to fall upon the various centres in his body — sometimes upon that between the eyes, sometimes upon the base of the spine, and so on.
Atlantean Peruvian Civilization
The produce from public lands was split between the king and the priests of the Sun.
The priests of the Sun used their share to support the temples, provide free education, care for the sick, and maintain the elderly.
The Peruvian religion was centered around the worship of the Sun, viewed as the source of all life and power.
Their rituals and beliefs emphasized joy and gratitude, with death seen as a transition to a closer communion with the Sun Spirit.
The produce from public land was split between the king and the priests of the Sun.
The priests of the Sun provided for all sick individuals, who became 'guests of the Sun' and received free care.
Any one who had so failed would have been regarded as an uncivilised being, unworthy of the high privilege of citizenship in this great Empire of 'The Children of the Sun,' as these early Peruvians called themselves; he would have been looked upon with something of the same horror and pity as was an excommunicated person in mediaeval Europe.
This public land was itself divided into two equal parts (each of which therefore represented a quarter of the whole arable land of the country), one of which was called the land of the King, the other the land of the Sun.
And the law was that the land of the Sun must first be tilled, before any man turned a sod of his own private land ; when that was done, each man was expected to cultivate his own piece of land, and only after all the rest of the work was safely over was he required to do his share towards tilling the land of the King — so that if unexpected bad weather delayed the harvest the loss would fall first upon the King, and except in an exceedingly inclement season could scarcely affect the people's private share ; while that of the Sun would be safeguarded in almost any possible contingency short of absolute failure of the crops.
Until the lands of the Sun were fully watered, no drop of the precious fluid was directed elsewhere; until every man's private field had all that it needed, there was no water for the lands of the King.
Thus it will be seen that a quarter of the entire wealth of the country went directly into the hands of the King; for in the case of money derived from manufactures or mining industries the division was stil) tlio same — first one-fourth to the Sun, then onehalt7 to the worker, and then the remaining fourth to the King.
It will be better not to pause now to describe the special work of the army, but rather to fill in the remainder of our rough outline of the polity of this ancient State by indicating the place held in it by the great Guild of the Priests of the Sun, so far as the civil side of the work of that priesthood is concerned.
First, they kept up the splendid temples of the Sun all over the land — kept them up on such a scale that many a small village shrine had golden ornaments and decorations that would now represent many thousands of pounds, while the great cathedrals of the larger cities blazed with a magnificence which hap never since been approached anywhere upon earth.
It is not meant that they were merely the physicians of the period (though that they were also), but that the moment a man, woiLan or child fell ill in any way, he at once came under the charge of the priests, or, as they more gracefully put it, became the 'guest of the Sun'.
The sick person was immediately and entirely absolved from all his duties to the State, and, until his recovery, not only the necessary morlioiTipp, but also his food, were supplied to him free of all charge from the nearest temple of the Sun, while in any serious case he was usually taken to that temple as to a hospital, in order to receive more careful nursing.
If the sick man were the breadwinner of the family, his wife and children also became ' guests of the Sun' until he recovered.
Fourthly — and perhaps this statement will be considered even more astonishing than the last — the entire population over the age of forty-five (except the official class) were also ' guests of the Sun/ It was considered that a man who had worked for twenty-five years from the age of twenty — when he was first expected to begin to take his share of the burdens of the State — had earned rest and comfort for the remainder of his life, whatever that might be.
But in any case he was absolved from all work for the State, and his maintenance was provided by the priesthood of the Sun.
It will now be obvious why the work of the priests was considered the most important, and why, whatever else failed, the contributions to the treasury of the Sun must not fall short, for on them deponded not only the religion of the people, but the education of the young and the care of the sick and the aged.
If we had to classify their faith among those with which we are now acquainted, we should be obliged to call it a kind of Sun-worship, though of course they never thought for a moment of worshipping the physical sun.
They regarded it, however, as something much more than a mere symbol; if we endeavour to express their feeling in Theosophical terminology, we shall perhaps come nearest to it by saying that they looked upon the sun as the physical body of the LOGOS, though that attributes to them a precision of idea which they would probably have considered irreverent.
They would have told an enquirer that they worshipped the Spirit of the Sun, from whom everything came, and to whom everything must re* turn — by no means an unsatisfactory presentment of a mighty truth.
They were quite certain that man was immortal, and they held that his eventual destiny was to go to the Spirit of the Sun perhaps to become one with Him, though this was not clearly defined in their teachings.
Praise was offered daily to the Spirit of the Sun, but never prayer; because they were taught that the Deity knew better than they what was required for their welfare — a doctrine which one would like to see more fully comprehended at the present day.
Fruit and flowers were offered in their temples, not from any idea that the Sun-God desired such service, but simply as a token that they owed all to Him; for one of the most prominent theories of their faith was that all light and life and power came from the Sun — a theory which is fully borne out by the discoveries of modern science.
He spoke to them of their Lord the Sun, calling upon them to remember how everything that they needed for their physical well-being was brought into existence by Him; how without His glorious light and heat the world would be cold and dead, and all life would be impossible ; how to His action was due the growth of the fruits and grains which formed the staple of their food, and even the fresh water, which was the most precious and necessary of all.
Then he explained to them how the wise men of old had taught that behind this action which all could see, there was always another and still grander action which was invisible, but could yet be felt by those whose lives were in harmony with their Lord's; how what the Sun in one aspect did for the life of their bodies, that same office He also performed, in another and even more wonderful aspect, for the life of their souls.
He pointed out that both these actions were absolutely continuous — that though sometimes the Sun was hidden from the sight of His child the earth, yet the cause of such temporary obscuration was to be found in the earth and not in the Sun, for one had only to climb far enough up the mountains in order to rise above the overshadowing clouds, and discover that their Lord was shining on in glory all the time, entirely unaffected by the veil which seemed so dense when seen from below.
The full benefit of the Sun's action, continued the priest, could be experienced only by those who were themselves in perfect health.
Now the sign of perfect health on all levels was that men should resemble their Lord the Sun.
The man who was in the enjoyment of full physical health was himself a kind of minor sun, pouring out strength and life upon all around, so that by his very presence the weak became stronger, the sick and the suffering were helped.
In exactly the same way, he insisted, the man who was in perfect moral health was also a spiritual sun, radiating love and purity and holiness on all who were happy enough to come into contact with him.
And both these objects together could be attained in one way, and in one way only — by that constant imitation of the benevolence of the Spirit of the Sun, which alone drew His children ever nearer and nearer to Him.
It will be remembered that, besides what we may call their purely religious work, the priests of the Sun had entire charge of the education of the country.
Every child, for example, was taught how to prepare and cook certain simple kinds of food, how to distinguish poisonous fruits from wholesome ones, how to find food and shelter if lost in the forest, how to use the simpler tools required in carpentering, in building, or in agriculture, how to make his way from place to place by the positions of the sun and stars, how to manage a canoe, as well as to.
They understood that the planets differed from the rest of the stars, and spoke of them as the sisters of the earth — for they recognised that the earth was one of them — or sometimes 'the elder children of the Sun.
' They knew that the earth was globular in shape, that day and night were due to its rotation on its axis, and the seasons to its annual revolution round the sun.
They were aware also that the fixed stars were outside the solar system, and they regarded comets as messengers from these other great Beings to their Lord, the Sun; but it is doubtful whether they had anything like an adequate conception of the real size of any of the bodies involved.
They were able to predict eclipses both of the sun and moon with perfect accuracy, but this was not done by observation, but by use of a traditional formula; they understood their nature, and do not seem to have attached much importance to them.
Climate and Time
He highlighted the importance of changes in the eccentricity (shape) of the Earth's orbit around the sun.
When the orbit is more elliptical, the difference in distance from the sun at various points in the orbit increases, leading to greater seasonal contrasts.
The Destruction of Atlantis
The Aztec legend says, "The sun was much nearer the earth then than now, and his grateful warmth rendered clothing unnecessary."
A populated universe
These creation stories begin on a planet that is flooded and shrouded in darkness.[29:26] In Genesis, before any word of creation is spoken—there’s that wonderful poetic passage, "Let there be light, and there was light," and then we go through all the sequence of creation—did you notice that before light was created, the planet already exists, and it’s flooded and shrouded in darkness?[30:01] Before the sun is created, the planet already exists.
Babylonian Calendar
These could include lighting fires, special prayers, and offerings to the sun god Shamash, asking for his strength to return and bless the land with light.
The Vatican is preparing guidelines for communication with divine beings.
On the predicted day, tens of thousands of people gathered and claimed to witness the sun move erratically and emit radiant colors for several minutes.
Phoenix
In many traditions, the phoenix is associated with the sun, given its cycle of death and rebirth that parallels the daily setting and rising of the sun.
The ancient Egyptians linked the phoenix with their sun god, Ra, and the city of Heliopolis, where it was said the bird would come to rest and be reborn.
Bennu was considered the ba (soul component) of the sun deity Ra and facilitated the creative actions of Atum.
Bennu held titles such as "He Who Came Into Being by Himself" and "Lord of Jubilees," reflecting the belief in his periodic renewal, akin to the sun.
Symbolically, the fenghuang's body represents celestial bodies: the head is the sky, the eyes are the sun, the back is the moon, the wings are the wind, the feet are the earth, and the tail is the planets.
It is said to originate from the sun and embodies the five fundamental colors: black, white, red, yellow, and green.
The young phoenix then carries the remains of its predecessor to Heliopolis and deposits them on the altar of the sun god.
The phoenix places this ball on the altar of the Sun in Heliopolis, an ancient city in Egypt dedicated to the worship of the sun god.
This young phoenix then takes up the remains of its parent and flies to Heliopolis to deposit the remains on the sun god’s altar.
Once the nest is completed, the phoenix lies down in it and, with the heat of the sun, the spices and the bird itself ignite in flames.
The newly reborn phoenix then gathers the ashes of its parent into an egg made of myrrh and flies to the temple of the sun god in Heliopolis, Egypt.
There, the phoenix places the egg on the altar as a tribute to the sun god.
Pliny also mentions that the young phoenix embalms its predecessor in an egg made of myrrh and flies with it to Heliopolis, where it places the egg on the altar of the sun god.
The young phoenix then flies to the Egyptian city of Heliopolis, known as the "City of the Sun," and places the myrrh egg on the altar of the sun god.
The forbidden fruit
Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, gains access to the heavenly peach orchard and, being mischievous, eats many of the peaches, thereby gaining immense power and longevity.
Numerology
Sun Wukong 72 Transformations: Allowing him to transform into various animals and objects.
Uranus
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun, orbiting at a distance of about 2.87 billion kilometers (1.78 billion miles).
Pentacost
In Mark, Jesus is crucified along with two rebels, and the sun goes dark or is obscured for three hours.
The Holy Seven
Sun-associated figures like Uanna (Adapa) and Confucius symbolize enlightenment and foundational wisdom.
Uanna (Adapa) from Mesopotamian mythology, Thales of Miletus from Ancient Greece, Kashyapa from Indian tradition, Confucius from Chinese philosophy, Abraham from Judaism, Vipassi Buddha from Buddhism, the Master of Masters from Celtic folklore, associated with the Sun, and Yaldabaoth from Gnostic tradition — each hold significant roles within their respective cultural and religious contexts.
Adam Stories
After giving them this command, he left them and went on a long journey to fetch the sun to enlighten the world.
Venus
Venus is the second planet from the Sun, known for its brightness when viewed from Earth.
Venus has a thick atmosphere composed mainly of carbon dioxide, with clouds of sulfuric acid, making it the hottest planet in our solar system despite not being the closest to the Sun.
This means that on Venus, the Sun would appear to rise in the west and set in the east.
Archons
The Sun.
From the Hebrew term for "the Lord", used of God; Adonis of the Syrians representing the Winter sun in the cosmic tragedy of Tammuz.
In the Mandaean system Adonaios represents the Sun.
Mercury
Orbit and RotationMercury has a highly elliptical orbit and is about 58 million kilometers away from the Sun at its closest point.
It completes an orbit around the Sun every 88 Earth days, which is the shortest of all the planets in the Solar System.
Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second smallest in our solar system, after Mercury.
Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.
A gas giant, Jupiter's mass is more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined and slightly less than one one-thousandth the mass of the Sun.
Orbit and RotationJupiter orbits the Sun once every about 11.86 Earth years.
The third Adam is earthly
The two bulls in Egypt, insofar as they indicate the sun and the moon as a mystery, exist for a witness to Sabaoth, that Sophia of the world has been exalted above the sun and the moon, from the day when she created them and sealed her heaven until the consummation of the age.
Abel: Ruler of water and earth
Pachamama (Earth, Incan) and Inti (Fire, Incan): Pachamama is the goddess of the earth, and Inti is considered a sun god, representing fire and light.
Creator(s) of Adam
The sixth is Cain, whom the great generations of men call the sun.
4 Heads and 4 Arms
… The number and features of these three sexes were owing to the fact that the male was originally the offspring of the sun, and the female of the earth; while that which partook of both sexes was born of the moon, for the moon also partakes of both.
Human lifespan declines
A synodic period refers to the time it takes for a celestial body (like a planet) to return to the same apparent position relative to the Sun and Earth.