John 4:24 – Jesus and the Samaritan Woman

Rituals to the god Amun, who became identified with the sun god Ra, were often carried out on the top of temple pylons. In Albanian tradition the fire – zjarri, evidently also called with the theonym Enji – worship and rituals are particularly related to the cult of the Sun. Worship practices in Hinduism are as diverse as its traditions, and a Hindu can choose to be polytheistic, pantheistic, monotheistic, monistic, agnostic, atheistic, or humanist. Other texts and commentators such as Adi Shankara explain that Hindu deities live or rule over the cosmic body as well as in the temple of the human body. Scientists have made tremendous strides in decoding human and animal genomes, synthesizing DNA and cloning. In 1973, two scientists hypothesized that a miniature black hole somehow crashed into Earth, causing an antimatter explosion, and shot out the other side. Miniature gold boats from Nors in Denmark, dating from the Nordic Bronze Age. 2400-2000 BC, thought to represent solar boats.

Solar deities are often thought of as male (and lunar deities as being female) but the opposite has also been the case. 1800-1600 BC, associated with the Unetice culture, which is thought to show a depiction of a gold solar boat. The earliest deities associated with the Sun are all goddesses: Wadjet, Sekhmet, Hathor, Nut, Bast, Bat, and Menhit. In some folk tales, myths and legends the Sun and the Moon are regarded as husband and wife, also appearing as the parents of E Bija e Hënës dhe e Diellit (“the Daughter of the Moon and the Sun”); in others the Sun and the Moon are regarded as brother and sister, but in this case they are never considered consorts. Nëna e Diellit (“the Mother of the Sun” or “the Sun’s Mother”) also appears as a personified deity in Albanian folk beliefs and tales. The Sun (Albanian: Diell-i) holds the primary role in Albanian pagan customs, beliefs, rituals, myths, and legends. In pagan beliefs the fire hearth (vatra e zjarrit) is the symbol of fire as the offspring of the Sun. In Albanian pagan beliefs and mythology the Sun is a personified male deity, and the Moon (Hëna) is his female counterpart.

In Germanic mythology, the Sun is female, and the Moon is male. When male deities became associated with the sun in that culture, they began as the offspring of a mother (except Ra, King of the Gods who gave birth to himself). First Hathor, and then Isis, give birth to and nurse Horus and Ra, respectively. Similarly, Étaín has at times been considered to be another theonym associated with the Sun; if this is the case, then the pan-Celtic Epona might also have been originally solar in nature. If you are looking for yourself, then you just need to think about what you want. Forms, postures, ceremonial, sacraments, liturgies, holy days, and places are not condemned, but they all are inefficacious if this prime condition be not present, and they can all be dispensed with if it be. For instance, in the poem Suffering from the Shortness of Days, Li He of the Tang dynasty is hostile towards the legendary dragons that drew the sun chariot as a vehicle for the continuous progress of time. Greek Helios (or Apollo) riding in a chariot. In Chinese culture, the sun chariot is associated with the passage of time.

In Chinese mythology (cosmology), there were originally ten suns in the sky, who were all brothers. 519), and that mythology also serves “to initiate the individual into the order of realities of his own psyche” (Campbell, p. Saule is among the most important deities in Baltic mythology and traditions. As the wide set of cultic traditions dedicated to him indicates, the Albanian Sun-god appears to be an expression of the Proto-Indo-European Sky-god (Zot or Zojz in Albanian). A History of Related Traditions. The “solarisation” of several local gods (Hnum-Re, Min-Re, Amon-Re) reached its peak in the period of the Fifth Dynasty. Solar boat imagery also appears on bronze razors from the period. The Caergwrle Bowl from Wales, dating from the British Bronze Age, c. The Trundholm sun chariot dates to the Nordic Bronze Age, about 2,500 years earlier than written attestations of the Norse myth, but is often associated with it.