A Short History of the Calendar
The first calendars were developed in Egypt over 4000 years before the birth of Jesus. The earliest documentation of celebration of the Winter Solstice with evergreens goes back to ancient Egyptians, when they brought them into the house as markers when the Nile would flood. Throughout Ancient Egypt, the sun was considered to be a universal creator, symbolized by Ra, a hawk-headed male image bearing the solar disk on his head. Ra was considered to be ill at the Winter Solstice as he was sinking low on the horizon. The Egyptians brought 12 green palm rush shoots into their homes as a symbol of the completed year to celebrate the suns rising again after the solstice. This symbolized the triumph of life over death because it was believed that the palm grew a new shoot each month and they believed it represented the 12 divisions of the zodiac. This eventually became the basis of the “12 days of Christmas”. During this time, the week length was 8 days which were named after the planets. The Egyptians believed that the most distant planet was Saturn which is why the festival of Saturnalia eventually evolved to be on the Winter Solstice which was at the end of the year.
In Europe, the first phase building of Stonehenge began approximately 1900 years before the beginning of the Gregorian calendar. It is believed that Stonehenge was used as a place of ritual and that it also marked time because the winter solstice sunrise aligned with the center alter. The Nordic countries also selected the Winter Solstice as their new year and burned a Yule log which was round and symbolized a clock-like wheel. The word Yule evolved from the Saxon word “hweol” which meant wheel, and was a symbol of the yearly cycle of the sun.
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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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