Thus, these many different cultures celebrated the sun of gods birthday on december 25th. When the golden sun is setting and the path no more you trod, may your name in gold be written in the autograph of god. I will be posting daily lectures on esoteric teachings as well as hermetics and. At night he is carried back to his starting place in a great divinelywrought cup.
The true date of the birth of christ is most likely between july and september but since the exact date of christs birthday was unknown, it was suggested, why not call it the same date as the birth of tammuz, which was december 25. Traveling with the sungod in each of the twelve months is a different set of six associates. Song of the sun god begins in colombo in 1932 and ends in sydney in 2010 and within its pages is a countrys history and the way it moulded the story of a family rajan and nala are happily married with two kids, priya and nandan. December 25 birthday of the sun yahwehs restoration. The sun is god is none of that and yet there are glimpses.
And for that i will always be thankful and appreciative to gregory. To know how to grow old is the masterwork of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. This 1,800 yearold temple was dedicated to the god mithras. Jesus as the sun throughout history stellar house publishing. The iconic scenes of mithras show him being born from a rock, slaughtering a bull, and sharing a banquet with the god sol the sun. Nearly all nations, says doane, commemorated the birth of the god sol to the queen of heaven and celestial virgin. Childhood memories return with longlost autograph books. I wasnt entirely sure what to expect here, its a book clearly released some time ago, and i expect its been updated, but i do like to read a sample of the story and there wasnt one available. On the walls of the damn luxor we literally see mary being impregnated as a virgin, adored by 3 kings and anubis portrayed as dog after sirius the dog star.
So, thanks to this sungod, tammuz was never conquered by death not completely. Until you earn points all your submissions need to be vetted by other comic vine users. December 25th birthday of the sun vote up 0 vote down reply. Song of the sun god by shankari chandran the book satchel. Also known as the sun god, ra was a powerful deity and a central god of the egyptian pantheon. Birth of the invincible sun article about birth of the invincible sun. Sol invictus unconquered sun was the official sun god of the later roman empire and a patron of soldiers. The book is awesome, so well put together, its a really personal message on ever page. Many new days were gradually added to the roster of martyr anniversaries to commemorate distinguished leaders, the dedication of buildings and. The ancient egyptians revered ra as the god who created everything.
Probably the most provocative issue related to the. She was seen as a starcovered nude woman arching over the earth, or as a cow. It was in the fifth century that the roman catholic church commanded that the birth of christ be observed forever on december 25 the day of the old roman feast of the birth of sol one of the names of the sungod. She was depicted wearing the waterpot sign nw that identifies her. As the spirit of god, manifested in christ, began to work upon the hearts of men, many left the worship of apollo, the sun god, and joined the christians. On this page i will be explaining the archetypes that god created to mold creation.
He probably chose this date because the people of rome already observed it as the feast of saturn, celebrating the birthday of the sun sechrist e. This sun gods viceroy, tammuz or nimrod, of course, could also be considered unconquered because, as we know, he was first considered a martyred moral. Later the western churches created a preparatory season for the christmas festival, known as advent. Predynasty egyptian beliefs attribute atum as the sungod and horus as a god of the sky and sun. God warns that he will destroy the sunimages lev 26. Worship of the sun and sun images, h2802 are both proscribed by gods law. Literally, one day will not pass that i dont think of the ideas and assertions provided in this amazing book. This is also where all the savior archetypes get their birthday because most of them represent the sun and so when the sun is done recessing and the days begin getting longer again this can be likened unto its new birth.
The pagan origins of christmas december 25th birthday of the sun. My dear sage, dhata as the sungod, krtasthali as the apsara, heti as the raksasa, vasuki as the naga, rathakrt as the yaksa, pulastya as the sage and. Some christian leaders argue for an abandonment of this pagan celebration while most observe this holiday and use the time as an opportunity to call attention to the message of christianity. The december 25th birthday of the sun god is a common motif globally, dating back at least 12,000 years as reflected in winter solstices artfully recorded in caves. Although wikipedia has the dates for amun ras historical indexing, they however are not accomidated by great researchers. None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. The worship of the sun god, mithra quite clearly can be traced to persia and india. All materials here in belong to there rightful owners, and any use can be considered for. Sun worship, veneration of the sun or a representation of the sun as a deity, as in atonism in egypt in the 14th century bce. Amun ras true date of existence is only an educated guess, even in the book of dead. Nut was the sister and wife of geb, and the mother of with ra osiris, nephthys,isis and seth and grandmother of horus. The following are the characteristics of the sun of god.
The prophet describes a vision he had, saying the lord brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the lord, and i saw women sitting there, mourning the god tammuz ezekiel 8. Pleasd look forward, pleasd to look behind, and count each birthday with a grateful mind. Christmas is also relevant because december 25th was the day of celebration of the birthday of the sungod mithra. Harding, published in 1906 by scott, foresman and company. Paganism was worshiping the sun on sunday when christ came. This book and words are something that i will keep with me for the rest of my life. How to quickly debunk the horusjesus myth come reasons. Roman temple of mithras may align with sun on jesus birthday.
Birth of the unconquered sun in the first centuries after the death of jesus, a new religious cult swept across the roman empire. A solar deity is a sky deity who represents the sun, or an aspect of it, usually by its perceived. When the riots break out, they adopt dhara, daughter of nalas cousin, mohan. Among the items found are about inscriptions, 700 examples of the bullkilling scene tauroctony, and about 400 other monuments. Nimrod married his own mother, whose name was semiramis. When the gospel from judea came to our own ancestors in europe, it found them paying homage to the sun on the first day of the week. Nimrod the lord of christmas nimrod started the great organized worldly apostasy from god that has dominated this world until now. The sun god of the greeks and romans, for example, rode in a fourhorse pyrios, aeos, aethon, and phlegon chariot. About 420 sites have yielded materials related to the cult. The answer to this lies in the pagan lore of mithraism the religion of the sun god. By the fifth dynasty in the 25th and 24th centuries bc, he had become one of the most important gods in ancient egyptian religion, identified primarily with the noon sun. The description of yahweh and the sun states, this challenging provocative book argues that there was in ancient israel a considerable degree of overlap between the worship of the sun and of yahweh even that yahweh was worshipped as the sun in some contexts. They simply look forward to christmas as a time to be with family, enjoy good food, and give gifts. The ancient egyptians worshiped ra more than any other god and pharaohs often connected themselves with ra in their efforts to be seen as the earthly embodiment of the sun god.
Roman pagan holiday commemorating the birthday of the unconquered sun. In egyptian mythology, nut was the goddess of the sky. Also, the birthday of the persian sungod mithra was celebrated on december 25. Thats because at that time, as is presented in the book. Now the yule log is the dead stock of nimrod, deified as the sungod, but cut down by his enemies. This was the time when the sun had reached its lowest point on the horizon and started back up into the heavens and so the sun god had come. See history of research into solar mythology and the bible. Protoindoeuropean religion has a solar chariot, the sun as traversing the sky in a chariot.
In india, the solar deity is one of the vedic gods and one of his names is mitra. The story of jesus there are three distinct theories on who jesus was. The ancient egyptians believed that nut swallowed the sungod, ra, every night and gave birth to him every morning. If god wrote your birthday card gift book religious. After nimrods death, his socalled motherwife, semiramis, propagated the evil doctrine of the survival of nimrod as a spirit being. They called this god mithras or sol and observed his birthday on. In addition to being the divinity of contracts, mithra is also a judicial figure, an allseeing protector of truth, and the guardian of cattle, the harvest, and of the waters the romans attributed their mithraic mysteries. The babylonian connection to christmas mystery, babylon. Nwt, also known by various other transcriptions, is the goddess of the sky, stars, cosmos, mothers, astronomy, and the universe in the ancient egyptian religion. And behold, at the entrance to the temple of the lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twentyfive men with their backs to the temple of the lord and their faces toward the east. Surprisingly, the link between solar mythology and the bible was known over two centuries ago. Secrets of amun ra revealed, amun ra and christ were not.
Though almost every culture uses solar motifs, only a relatively few cultures egyptian, indoeuropean, and mesoamerican developed solar religions. The myth of helios, the sungod the story of helios, the sungod is featured in the book entitled greek gods, heroes and men by caroline h. The false god tammuz is mentioned in the book of ezekiel. Sun of god has caused me to look at life in a completely different manner. The penalty for sunworship was death by stoning if there were two or three witnesses deut 17. The cover is delightful, and easy to put into a mailer, while costing very little in media mail. The sun is god goodreads meet your next favorite book. This is a revised and remastered version of the first half of zeitgeist. Many sun gods and goddesses are humanoid and ride or drive a vessel of some sort across the sky. Jesus was the son of god who came to earth in human form. The history of the pacific seems littered with largerthanlife characters and improbable events, and mckinty provides a highly readable take on just one of these unbelievablebuttrue stories. Helios drives a chariot led by four firebreathing horses across the sky each day.
A very early christian tradition said that the day when mary was told that she would. The fact that the most prominent holiday in the christian yearly cycle is pagan in origin is relatively well known. Sun worship encyclopedia of the bible bible gateway. For more info on the origins of christmas, please check out our free booklet.