Becoming One with the Sun and Earth. Previous Page
© Copyright2009 Kelly Sabota-O’Donnell
This book is not intended to be a religion or philosophy that will further divide and separate man. Instead, it seeks to unify all towards living in harmony with the Sun and Earth. This work has been created with a spirit of love, and is pro-unity of mankind and accepts all races, nationalities and faiths. All are invited to integrate the knowledge of this book into their faiths.
Chapter 1 Historical Views of the Sun
We are conceived. We eat the food which is grown from the energy of the Sun and the material of the Earth which grows our eyes and gives us vision to see the light. Without the light, we do not see. Yet modern man has lost his connection to the light of our Star, the Sun, because it has been explained away as a giant fusion reactor 93 million miles away. Is this all it really is? Although the Sun may not be the sole creator of all, it is crystal clear that stars are very profoundly fundamental to the “all” of the infinite mystery.
Our sun has given freely to all creatures in all times. Its energy grows our food with mother Earth; it keeps us warm and provides light so that we can see. It asks for nothing in return yet we rarely give it the smallest gesture of gratitude or appreciation. We do not even celebrate it although once humanity had revered it enough to name a day after it, Sunday. Now many of us forget that Sunday is even named after the Sun.
The new age is upon us, and with the environment being threatened, it is time for humanity to remember its connection to the Sun. Imagine if all of humanity had stayed aligned with the Sun and built their homes to utilize the natural solar energy that radiates to the Earth. We would have less need to go to war over fossil fuels, we would have a cleaner environment, and we would have more free time because we wouldn’t have to spend part of our day working to heat our homes.
So how can we reconnect to the light? We can begin by first understanding how ancient cultures related to the Sun. We can learn how the sun has been universally revered, and that remnants of that association are evident throughout the evolution of many religious traditions. By remembering and understanding the history of man’s relationship to the Sun, we can then use that knowledge to build a new relationship to the Sun for mans future.
We begin with one of the oldest, sun revering cultures – the ancient Egyptians. Their huge obelisks represented a petrified ray of the sundisk of Aten. Their obelisks were modeled after naturally occurring light pillars which are a visual phenomenon created by the reflection of ice crystals perpendicular to the horizon. These obelisks were also used as the Gnomon, or the indicators, in the center of huge Sun dials. They called the Sun Ra, which was related to the word ray, as in Sun ray.
Eye of Horus
They believed that Ra (the noon time sun) saw all, and they developed the familiar symbol of the “Eye of Ra”, which later evolved into the “all seeing eye” on the pyramid on the American one dollar bill.
All Seeing Eye
Another name they had for the Sun was Horus and Aten which were names given to the solar disc. The winged sun was an ancient symbol of Horus, or Ra the sun god.
Solar Disk
According to the movie Zietgiest, the word Horus evolved into the word “hours.” The term “My Sun” was used to address Pharaohs as if they were the Sun because they claimed to be descendants of the Sun. The Emerald tablets of Thoth 9 attributed to Hermes Trismgistus states the following. “Seek to be solely the Light. Hold thou thy thought on the Oneness of Light with the body of man. Know that all is. Seek ye, O man, to find the great pathway that leads to eternal Life as a Sun. Draw ye away from the veil of the darkness. Seek to become a Light in the world. Make of thyself a vessel for Light, a focus for the Sun of this space. Create the high vibration that will make thee One with the Whole. Blend all thyself with the Cosmos. Grow into One with the Light. Be thou a channel of order, a pathway of Law to the world.”
Another word that the Egyptians had for the Sun at high noon was Aten, which sounds very similar to the holy words Amen, Awen and Aum. We can only speculate that they all may have evolved from some common ground.
The Egyptians celebrated spring Equinox with a festival called Sham el-Nessim or Shom en nisim. It was named after Shemu which meant creation and nessim meant breath. Nessim translates to mean breath in the air of Creation. One cannot help but notice that Sham el Nessim seems to be related to the word Shamanism and Shaman.
It also seems related to the sun god Shamash of the Ancient Sumerians, the Babylonians and Assyrians.
Shamash was the Sun God and God of Justice.
This symbol was use around 1000 B.C. in the Euphrates-Tigris region to represent the sun and the sun god Shamash, the greatest power, or the highest divinity. Hammurabi is said to have credited the Sun, Shamash, for inspiring him to carve laws onto a huge stone tablet – because light was seen to reveal the injustice and wrong. The attribute most commonly associated with Shamash is justice. It was believed that Shamash brings wrong and injustice to light just as the sun disperses darkness. The ancient city of Beit Shemesh translates into house or temple of the Canaanite female sun goddess Shemesh. Perhaps Shemesh evolved into our word for female, she.
There is also an interesting relationship of the word Shamash to the 7 candled menorah of Judaism. The middle candle is called Shamash and to most modern Jews this simply means, “to be used” to light the other candles. This also correlates with the fact that the Star of David is almost the same as the seal of Solomon.
Star of David, Seal of Solomon
The name SOL-OM-ON is also a name for the Supreme Light. Both are a hexagram of two interlaced triangles. This is also found in Hinduism. The upward triangle is represented by Shiva the divine masculine energy. The downward triangle is the Shakti, the divine feminine energy.
In the ancient catacombs under Rome, are pictures of the virgin mother Isis, holding the baby Horus as a sun which is incredibly similar to the “Madonna and Child”. The Roman Pagan festival of Saturnalia, which included feasting, gambling, drinking and gift giving, was celebrated throughout Italy on the Winter Solstice in the north Hemisphere. It honored the God Saturn, began on Dec. 17th, and lasted until the Solstice on Dec. 25th. The God Saturn was also associated with Chronos who represented Time.
The Romans also celebrated the Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, “the birthday of the unconquered sun.” on December 25, which was the solstice at the time. It was the day Sun proved itself to be “unconquered” despite the shortening of daylight hours. The celebration of Sol Invictus allowed several solar deities to be worshipped collectively, including Mithras.
Mithras’ symbol was a tauroctony, a representation of the constellations which included Scorpio and Taurus the Bull. which could be related to the golden calf. Mithraeums were underground cave like structures and have been discovered as far north as Germany, Hungary and the United Kingdom. Mithraism disappeared after the Theodosian decree of 391 banned all pagan rites. Perhaps Mithraeums are related also to Granges of the Nordic countries and the development of Stonehenge which aligned with the Sunrise on the Solstice. In several Nordic countries it is still common to wear a wreath crown of candles on St. Lucy’s Day, which, before the 16th century reform of the Gregorian calendar, occurred on the winter solstice. This ties in with the Sun being reborn on the Solstice, because in Roman mythology Lucina was the goddess of childbirth and also an epithet for Juno as “she who brings children into light”. Lucy and Lucina are related to our word for luminance.
© Copyright2009 Kelly Sabota-O’Donnell
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