Many cultures developed astroarchitecture which evolved from tracking the Sun and the clockwork of the heavens. The Sundial was the first clock and measured time by the position of the Sun’s shadow from the center post, called the gnomon. It is inclined to the horizontal at an angle that equals the latitude of the sundial’s location. Some Egyptian obelisks may have acted as the gnomon of Sun dials. On Harris Island, Ireland, is a druid stone circle with a stone in the center that reads Clack-na-Greine, which translates as “the stone of the sun”. Sun worship eventually led to the understanding of how the heavens controlled the time of nature’s cycles, and operated like turning wheels. This eventually led the ancient Greeks to develop the complicated Antikythera gear mechanism in 150–100 BC and astrolabes that eventually evolved into the modern mechanical Clock.
Astrolabe Model
Astrolabe looks remarkably like Yggdrasil
These early clocks operated like astrolabes and were designed to produce a continual display of the current position of the sun, stars, and planets. For example, Richard of Wallingford’s clock, dating to 1330AD, consisted of a star map rotating behind a fixed rete. Many medieval astronomical clocks, such as the famous Orloj clock at Prague, use an astrolabe style display, with a projection of the ecliptic plane. Time itself is something critical and intrinsic to the Great Mystery. Clearly the clock reveals a divine and intelligent design to life. This is not the intelligent design as referred to by Evangelical Christians, but a scientific design that includes evolution. Therefore to align with nature’s design one must align with the natural forces of the energy of the sun and the solstices cycle of time. If we do not believe that mankind’s consciousness has evolved since the beginning of time until this moment, we can not believe that he can become more conscious in the future.
It is time to reflect on mankind’s relationship to time. Without the Earth’s rotation around the Sun, how would we know what time it was? No matter where you are on the planet, you are moving at the orbital speed of the Earth, which averages about 67,000 miles per hour. The earths rotational speed on the equator is about 17miles per minute. Our unifying force is time which has a sacred element to it that is universal to all peoples in all times. In retrospect, we can understand how our primitive calendars were created based on the Sun cycle, because of the need for planning for agricultural cycles, hunting and migration cycles, for divination or forecasting events, and for celebration of religious and civil events. Calendars link mankind with the cosmos and have a sacred status as a source of social order and cultural identity. Unfortunately, the Gregorian calendar is used to coordinate business, social appointments, politics, production, nationalistic celebrations and religious events, but sadly it is disconnected with the natural and celestial cycles. This is the primary reason that is it critical that mankind think about and study history of how time itself is represented and used by man.
© Copyright 2009 Kelly Sabota-O’Donnell
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.”
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