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© 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.”
In Europe, there are many late Neolithic, early Bronze Age, archeological sites dating to 3000-1500 B.C. The most famous of these is the pre-Celtic burial tomb at New-Grange in Ireland which aligned with the sun.
Plan view of Stonehenge
Stonehenge in Britain is believed to be an astrological calendar because the sun shines directly through the center of the structure on the summer solstice. It is thought to be aligned this way because Sun worship was prevalent among ancient pagans. It is legend that the stones were healing stones from Africa, and that King Arthur had them relocated to Ireland by Merlin and 15,000 knights. This belief may have evolved because a similar, older circular stone structure was found at the Nabta Playa Africa. The sun was called Sowilo by the Celts. They divided their year into a light half and a dark half. Even after their Christianization their cross still incorporated the Sun Cross or a circle with a cross.
Celtic Cross
In Zurich Switzerland, various wheel pendants dating to the second half of the 2nd millennium BC have been found. Additionally, stones with sun wheel symbols have been recovered from Paleolithic cave sites in the Pyrenees.
Sun Wheels
The sun cross, a cross inside a circle, is one of the oldest and most universal religious symbols. It is also known as the solar cross, sun wheel, and sun disc.
Sometimes Sun wheel symbols are carved on roof beams to protect the house from thunderbolts. It is probable that Amish hex signs may have also evolved from these.
The Sun was called Sunna by the Germanic tribes. The sun was represented as a symbol letter in the runes of Europe.
Sun rune
Elder Futhark Sowilo “sun” rune, later (“S”) variant.
Sol Rune
Anglo-Saxon Sigel / Younger Futhark Sol rune
In the Slavic countries, pagan Slavs celebrated Karachun on the solstice. It was when the powers of the evil black god of darkness defeated Hurs, or Hors, the god of the old winter sun. This seems to point to the Egyptian sun god Horus having previously influenced the slavic belief system. Then, on December 23rd, Hors is resurrected and becomes the new sun, “Koleda”. Kolo meant wheel just as yule meant wheel in Scandinavia.
In Latin, the Sun was called Sol, which ironically sounds like the word Soul. The soul is often depicted as a sparkle like a sun inside of the chest near the heart. The word Sunday could be thought of as Sol day or Soul day.
In North Africa, at Nabta Playa, five hundred miles south of Cairo, a circular megalith which accurately marks the summer solstice may have been a prehistoric calendar.
In Greece the sun was personified and named Helios by the Greeks as representing the idea of the Good. An enormous Statue of Helios called the Colossus of Rhodes was said to have straddled a port and worn a crown or Corona of sun rays, It was one of the seven wonders of the Ancient world. It was similar to the Statue of Liberty whose french name means “Liberty enlightening the world” which is why she wears a crown of light.
In India, the Aditya Hridayam hymn was sung in association with Surya, which was the name of the Sun in Sanskrit. In Orissa India is an incredibly ornate 13th-century Sun Temple built by King Narasimhadeva I of the Ganga dynasty. The temple looks like chariot of Surya (Arka), the sun god, which is pulled by seven horses on twelve ornately decorated wheels. At that time it was believed there were seven colors of the rainbow and the wheels represented the twelve months of the year. The sun in India was honored through yoga and Mantra called the Surya Namaskara, “The Sun salutation”, where it was greeted as a friend, and revered. A hymn of the Indian Rig Veda describes Lord Surya’s (the Sun’s) wife the goddess Usha (or dawn), as wearing a bright red devotional dot on her forehead, symbolic of the rising sun. This has come to be know as a bindi or bindu and is worn in the place of the third eye (termed Ajna chakra). A chief festival in India was the celebration of the solstice (vishuva). Sandhyavandanam is a Hindu religious practice performed in the morning, noon, and evening in accordance with the sunrise, high noon and sunset. The ancient Indians also used a Vishnu Purana Time measurement which named the six month period an Aayana. So effectively, each year has a day and night and breathes in and out with the bloom of the vegetation – much like the Yin Yang symbol of China. They also developed the idea of Vaastu Shastra, which uses orientation and micro-climate to align with the light and other natural physical structures.
© Copyright2009 Kelly Sabota-O’Donnell
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