by Opeaus Blair
[Source] Daylight dawning over the horizon signals so much more than just the beginning of a new day here on Earth. The celestial orb of ‘light’ that marks the passage of our day has always been central to man’s beliefs. Reverence, and deification of the ‘Sun’ is one of the earliest, and the most inherently natural, forms of religious proclamation. Human ‘minds’ recognize the power of the Sun, and inevitably humanity came to worship ‘Him’ as some sort of proxy for the ‘Supreme Deity’ (the ‘One’ or the ‘Source’ of all). The various beneficial influence(s) of the Sun resulted in him being identified with (what became known as), the ‘Principle of Good’, and as a result, wherever you find ‘Gods’, you will find a Sun god or goddess. Whether that be the ‘Mithras’ of the Persians, ‘Ra’ and ‘Osiris’ to the Egyptians, the Chaldean ‘Bel’, ‘Adon’ to the Phoenicians, ‘Helios’ and ‘Apollo’ to the Greeks, the Goddesses ‘Sol’ of the Norse, and ‘Arinna’ of the Hittite, ‘Huitzilopochtli’ of the Aztec, ‘Inti’ to the Inca, ‘Kinich Ahau’ to the Maya, or ‘Lugh’ of the Celts; in each (and every) case these gods are all ‘personifications’ of the Sun.
Regardless of which individual culture they relate to, all of these Sun gods and goddesses are representations of a sort of ‘regenerating’ principle, and through them the rejuvenation, and perpetuation, of this material existence (as well as the ‘existence’ of Earth) is ensured to continue. In fact, throughout all of the nations and peoples of antiquity, temples have been dedicated to worshiping the ‘Sun’ (this is quite possibly because many early priests were well versed in Astrology; as such, their writings and oral traditions are better understood when viewed through this ancient science). This is demonstrated by the fact that, the Sun is said to ‘reign supreme’ amongst all of the ‘celestial bodies’ that were visible to the astrologers of old. As such, the Sun was assigned to the highest position (amongst the gods) and became symbolic of the ‘supreme authority’ (or ‘One’), and from their understanding of the ‘principles’ of the Sun came the concept of the ‘Trinity’ (as it is known by humanity today). This concept of a ‘Triune Divinity’ is not peculiar to Christian (and wider Abrahamic) theology, but it forms a central tenant of the dogma of all the greatest religions (both ancient and modern).
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