RE: Interesting correlation between God and light in major world religions...
May 24, 2019 at 4:10 am
(This post was last modified: May 24, 2019 at 4:10 am by Fake Messiah.)
Really, Sun was the first God and all gods that were invented afterward had to have some atributes of the Sun so that people buy them and worship them.
And we could even look at some ancient writings that confirm this:
Strabo (Geographica, XI.14) tells us that "The Persians therefore do not erect statues and altars, but sacrifice on a high place, regarding the heaven as Zeus; and they honor also the sun, whom they call Mithra, and the moon and Aphrodite and fire and earth and the winds and water."
Quintus Curtius (History of Alexander, Bk 4, Ch. 13) describes the scene before the battle of Arbela: "The king himself with his generals and staff passed around the ranks of the armed men, praying to the sun and Mithra and the sacred eternal fire to inspire them with courage worthy of their ancient fame and the monuments of their ancestors."
Lucian’s Zeus Rants and The Parliament of the Gods: "Bendis is a Thracian goddess, and Anubis is an Egyptian [god], whom the theologoi call ‘dog-faced.’ Mithras is Persian, and Men is Phrygian. This Mithras is the same as Hephaestus, but others say [he is the same as] Helios."
Mithra is Sol Invictus is Apollo is Helios is Kronos is Saturn is... (and Saturn can be equated with Yahweh.) And yet each god keeps his name.
Even early Christians acknowledged this and use it to ridicule pagan gods, like in Clementine Homily VI.10:
"And I must ask you to think of all such stories as embodying some such allegory. Look on Apollo as the wandering Sun (Peri-Polôn), a son of Zeus, who was also called Mithras, as completing the period of a year. And these said transformations of the all-pervading Zeus must be regarded as the numerous changes of the seasons, while his numberless wives you must understand to be years, or generations."
But of course, Jesus is also filled with attributes of the Sun God. I mean is it a coincidence that Jesus' birthday is celebrated around December 25 (the approximate date of the winter solstice in the Julian calendar) when the sun's fire is rekindled?
And indeed if you've noticed Sun is the one that "dies" every day and then resurrects the next day. But there is also annual death and resurrection of the Sun when the rising of the sun above the celestial equator at the time of the vernal equinox and then the death at the time of the autumnal equinox, when the sun sinks below the celestial equator. Correspondingly Synoptics give Jesus a sun god’s "life" of just one year and his life-path is a circle (the circle of the ecliptic), Jesus is simultaneously the Alpha and the Omega--as is the case for every point in the circumference of a circle.
Then, of course, the royal families of Japan traced their descent from the Sun Goddess Amaterasu. Before Islam, the Arabs worshiped the sun as a Goddess named Atthar. Vikings also worshiped the sun as a Goddess, Glory-of-Elves, or Sol.
And we could even look at some ancient writings that confirm this:
Strabo (Geographica, XI.14) tells us that "The Persians therefore do not erect statues and altars, but sacrifice on a high place, regarding the heaven as Zeus; and they honor also the sun, whom they call Mithra, and the moon and Aphrodite and fire and earth and the winds and water."
Quintus Curtius (History of Alexander, Bk 4, Ch. 13) describes the scene before the battle of Arbela: "The king himself with his generals and staff passed around the ranks of the armed men, praying to the sun and Mithra and the sacred eternal fire to inspire them with courage worthy of their ancient fame and the monuments of their ancestors."
Lucian’s Zeus Rants and The Parliament of the Gods: "Bendis is a Thracian goddess, and Anubis is an Egyptian [god], whom the theologoi call ‘dog-faced.’ Mithras is Persian, and Men is Phrygian. This Mithras is the same as Hephaestus, but others say [he is the same as] Helios."
Mithra is Sol Invictus is Apollo is Helios is Kronos is Saturn is... (and Saturn can be equated with Yahweh.) And yet each god keeps his name.
Even early Christians acknowledged this and use it to ridicule pagan gods, like in Clementine Homily VI.10:
"And I must ask you to think of all such stories as embodying some such allegory. Look on Apollo as the wandering Sun (Peri-Polôn), a son of Zeus, who was also called Mithras, as completing the period of a year. And these said transformations of the all-pervading Zeus must be regarded as the numerous changes of the seasons, while his numberless wives you must understand to be years, or generations."
But of course, Jesus is also filled with attributes of the Sun God. I mean is it a coincidence that Jesus' birthday is celebrated around December 25 (the approximate date of the winter solstice in the Julian calendar) when the sun's fire is rekindled?
And indeed if you've noticed Sun is the one that "dies" every day and then resurrects the next day. But there is also annual death and resurrection of the Sun when the rising of the sun above the celestial equator at the time of the vernal equinox and then the death at the time of the autumnal equinox, when the sun sinks below the celestial equator. Correspondingly Synoptics give Jesus a sun god’s "life" of just one year and his life-path is a circle (the circle of the ecliptic), Jesus is simultaneously the Alpha and the Omega--as is the case for every point in the circumference of a circle.
Then, of course, the royal families of Japan traced their descent from the Sun Goddess Amaterasu. Before Islam, the Arabs worshiped the sun as a Goddess named Atthar. Vikings also worshiped the sun as a Goddess, Glory-of-Elves, or Sol.
