Lutheran theologian Rudolf Otto coined the term numinous to express the type of fear one has for God. It is one of the few indigenous worships by the Tamil people. In Tamil Nadu, the Tamil people worship the sun god during the Tamil month of Thai, after a year of crop farming. After December 25, the Sun moves 1 degree north, which indicate longer days or Jesus’s resurrection. To corroborate his argument about God being a solar deity, Kuhn cites the Psalm’s verses such as, “Our God is a living fire,” “Our God is a consuming fire”, “The Lord God is a sun”, in addition to Jesus’s “Christ will shine upon thee!”, “I am come to send fire on earth” and “I am the light of the world”. The sun is prayed to by South Indians during the harvest festival. Dwight writes, “Constantinople is a compromise, therefore, and not always a successful one, between north and south.” In this instance, Dwight speaks of the jarring weather in the city, which blends the climate of regions to the north and south.

Yazidi religious texts refer to the light of the sun as a manifestation of God’s light, therefore, Yazidis direct their faces in the sun’s direction while praying. The paterfamilias in his home and the magistrates in public normally performed religious rituals. Annually, during the Feast of the Assembly, a ceremonial bull sacrifice is performed in front of his shrine at Lalish. According to the Aztec creation myth, the god demanded human sacrifice as tribute and without it would refuse to move through the sky. Many of today’s remaining Aztec monuments have structures aligned with the Sun. Each major province would also have a Sun Temple in which male and female priests would serve. Each conquered province was supposed to dedicate a third of their lands and herds to Inti as mandated by the Inca. Inti is the ancient Incan sun god. Inti is represented as a golden disk with rays and a human face. Andrew Jackson’s Indian removal policy is responsible for the Trail of Tears. Historians have argued that the term ‘Hinduism’ was a later construct that was put into effect during the Indian National Movement of the late 19th and 20th century, that attempted to bring under one umbrella term, all the rituals and practices of ‘Sanatan Dharma’ that pervaded the Indian Subcontinent.

Ra-Hoor-Khuit is one of the principal deities described in Aleister Crowley’s Liber AL vel Legis. One of the key practices in Thelema is the daily performance of Liber Resh vel Helios, a set of solar adorations composed by Crowley. According to one hypothesis about Christmas, the date was set to 25 December because it was the date of the festival of Sol Invictus. The earliest-known example of the idea that Christians chose to celebrate the birth of Jesus on 25 December because it was the date of an already existing festival of the Sol Invictus was expressed in an annotation to a manuscript of a work by 12th-century Syrian bishop Jacob Bar-Salibi. The charioteer in the mosaic of Mausoleum M has been interpreted by some as Christ by those who argue that Christians adopted the image of the Sun (Helios or Sol Invictus) to represent Christ. When the sun transits Scorpio, Judas schemes with the Sanhedrin to arrest Jesus by kissing him. American theosophist Alvin Boyd Kuhn had postulated that Jesus or the Abrahamic God is a sun god, with other figures in the Old Testament such as Samson (whose name means “sun” in Hebrew), King David, Solomon, Saul (meaning soul, or sol, the sun), Abraham, Moses, Gideon and Jephtha also being solar allegories.

The three days after December 21 are the darkest as the sun is low in the sky, under Sagittarius’s arrow, and therefore it is allegorized that, at this time, Jesus (the sun) dies for three days. The Philocalian calendar of AD 354 marks a festival of Natalis Invicti on 25 December. The Aztecs were fascinated by the Sun and carefully observed it, and had a solar calendar similar to that of the Maya. In most romance languages the word for “sun” is masculine (e.g. le soleil in French, el sol in Spanish, Il Sole in Italian). In most Germanic languages it is feminine (e.g. Die Sonne in German). Handouts (or e-mails) that recap some of the best ideas that were generated from the meeting can be sent out for reference later. Which of the following characters was the best mother in your opinion? As with C4ISR, Artificial Telepathy incorporates “signals collection” (eavesdropping) with “intelligence analysis” (figuring out what people intend to do) by utilizing satellites and computers. The God Minute is an online prayer community, led by priests, nuns, and lay people who start their day in prayer. In Ascension during Kratos’ pursuit of Megaera, Kratos encountered the warrior, who was rejoiced to see an opportunity for freedom.