Sun Worship (Part Two) Sun Worship Around The Globe: The great world religions can trace their roots to the religious system of Babylon. We find its modern counterpart in Roman Catholicism. (Image One) The open hand, as seen on the handle of the African (Kuba-Bushong drum) is a universal solar symbol. (Image Two) Surya-mamaskar on the banks of the river Ganges in India, offered with hands raised and palms facing the sun. (Image Three) To the people of Dahomey (Benin), the sun and the moon were twin brother and sister, living happily as father and mother of all the stars and planets. (Image Four) A father and son worshiping the sun in a pool known as the River Chandrabhaga near the thirteenth century sun temple at Konarak. (Image Five) Morning sun worshipers with open hands in the River Ganges India. (Image Six) Eighteen-century mask of the sun, carried in processions during the festival of the immaculate Conception in France. (Image Seven) Solar symbols on a first-century Chinese bronze drum. (Image Eight) The Japanese sun goddess Amaterasu emerges out of the cave with her face painted white in a Shinto ritual. (Image Nine) Sun mask from British Columbia, Canada. (Image Ten) A Mosaic showing the Irish monks raising their hands in the ancient Egyptian manner of paying homage to the sun. Cave chapel of St, Columbanus, St. Peters Basilica. (Image Eleven) In Finland and other places in Europe, it was common practice to jump through a fire to energize the sun during changes in season. A Christian message is now often associated with the ritual. (Image Twelve) Arun drives five-horse-drawn chariot of the sun god surya in this eighteenth-century Pahari miniature from the Bharat-Kara Museum, Varanasi, India. Other sun worship symbols: The people of Peru used the beaten gold calendar between 800 BC and 200 AD. Around the edges are gods associated with the sun. The Twelfth-century Basilica of San Clemente in Rome is embellished with sun motifs, as originally it was a second century Mithra Shrine. In Taxila-Pakistan there is a First-century sun god wearing boots and a wig.
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