IN ANCIENT ORIENT-12 The European people regarded the sun disk as a glorious loop running through the air, which resulted in the events of the garlands of May Day, playing flame-lops or throwing burning loops on the slope. The “Grand Soiar Ring” which is told in Buddhism stands for the sun himself. The thought of a ring remained us of movement, i.e., that of a circular substance rolling. The reason our forefathers figured out the sun to be a ring is as follows; (1) The disk they saw looked as if it were the sun himself or its flash is more dizzily than the sun. (2) The disk which was presumably mistaken for the sun flew round its own orbit similar to that of the sun. In a word, their reverence for the sun must have them to the conception that the sun, a celestial body, was a moving wheel. That is, they held this conception not only from a point of view that the sun moves round the globe but also the sun often flew here and there over the ground deviating from his orbit.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 23:59:56 +0000
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