. . . there is nothing new under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 1:9)
Over the ages, the ancients did not simply observe the movements of the celestial bodies but personified them and created stories about them that were recreated upon the earth. Out of this polytheistic, astrological atmosphere came the “greatest story ever told,” as the gospel tale is, in fact, astrotheological and non-historical, recording the mythos found around the globe for eons. Thus, the Christian religion, created and shored up by forgery, fraud and force, is in reality astrotheological and its founder mythical, based on many thousands of years of observation by the ancients of the movements and interrelationships of the celestial bodies and the earth, one of the favorite of which was, understandably, the sun.
The sun figured in the stories of virtually every culture worldwide. In many places and eras, the sun was considered the most visible proxy of the divine and the most potent bestower of Spirit. It was regarded as the first entity in “the Void” and the progenitor of all life and matter. The sun also represented the Archetypal Man, as human beings were perceived as “solar entities.” In addition to being a symbol of the spirit because it rises and sinks, the sun was the “soul of the world,” signifying immortality, as it is eternally resurrected after “dying” or setting. It was also considered the purifier of the soul, as noted. Hence, from at least the Egyptian age down to the Gnostic Christians, the sun, along with the moon and other celestial bodies, was viewed as a “guide” into the afterlife. By the Gnostic Zoroastrians, the sun was considered “the Archimagus, that noblest and most powerful agent of divine power, who ‘steps forth as a Conqueror from the top of the terrible Alborj to rule over the world which he enlightens from the throne of Ormuzd’.”cccxc Long before the Christian era, the sun was known as the “Son of Ormuzd,” the “Mediator,” while his adversary, Ahriman, represented the darkness, which caused the fall of man.cccxci
The sun was considered the “Savior of the World,” as it rose and brought light and life to the planet. It was revered for causing seeds to burst and thus giving its life for plants to grow; hence, it was seen to sacrifice itself in order to provide fertility and vegetation. The sun is the “tutelary genius of universal vegetation,”cccxcii as well as the god of cultivation and the benefactor of humankind. When the sun “dies” in winter, so does the vegetation, to be “resurrected” in the spring. The first fruits, vine and grain were considered symbols of the sun’s strength and were ritualistically offered to the divine luminary. The solar heroes and gods were said to be teachers as well, because agriculture, a science developed out of astronomy, freed mankind to pursue something other than food, such as other sciences and the arts.
The various personifications of the sun thus represent the “image of fecundity which perpetuates and rejuvenates the world’s existence.”cccxciii In their fertility aspects, the sun was the phallus, or lingam, and the moon was the vulva, or yoni, the male and female generative principles, the generators of all life on Earth.
In the mythos, the two pillars or columns of the Celestial Temple, the mysterious Jachin and Boaz, are the sun and moon.cccxciv Of the relationship between the sun and moon, Hazelrigg adds: “The Sun may be likened to a wire through which the planetary messages are electrically transmitted, and of which the lunar moisture is the insulation.”cccxcv
In the ancient world, light was the subject of awe, and the sunlight’s ability to make plants grow was considered magical and miraculous. So special is light that the writer of Ecclesiastes waxes, “Light is sweet, and it is pleasant for the eyes to behold the sun.” We know that it is not pleasant for the eyes to behold the direct light of the
sun; it is, however, pleasant for humanity to behold the sun as it rises in the morning, bringing light and life. Indeed, the sun itself is the “face of the divine” upon which it is impossible to look.
Thus, the sun was very important to the ancients, so much so that around the world for millennia a wide variety of peoples have built solar temples, monuments and entire religions with priestesses and priests of the Sun, along with complex rituals and accoutrements. Within these religions is contained the ubiquitous mythos, a template or archetypical story that personifies the heavens and Earth, and rolls them into a drama about their interrelationship. Rather than being an entertaining but useless “fairytale,” as myths are erroneously considered to be, the mythos is designed to pass along from generation to generation information vital to life on Earth, so that humans do not have to learn it repeatedly but can progress.
Without the knowledge, or gnosis, of the celestial mythos, humankind would still be in caves.
The celestial mythos is complicated because the solar myth is intertwined with the lunar, stellar and terrestrial myths. In addition, some of the various celestial players were introduced later than others, and many of them took on new functions as the focus switched from stars to moon to sun to other planets, and back again. For example, Horus is not only the sun but also the North Pole star, and his twin brother-cum-adversary, Set, represents not only darkness but also the South Pole star. Furthermore, as time progresses and the skies change, as with the precession of the equinoxes and the movements of the sun annually through the zodiac and daily through its “houses,” as well as with cataclysm, the attributes of the planetary bodies within the mythos also change. Moreover, the incorporation of the phases of moon into the mythos adds to its complexity:
The Moon, like the Sun, changed continually the track in which she crossed the Heavens, moving ever to and fro between the upper and lower limits of the Zodiac;
and her different places, phases, and aspects there, and her relations with the Sun and the constellations, have been a fruitful source of mythological fables.cccxcvi
An example of the complexity of the mythos is provided by the story of the
“Queen of Heaven,” the goddess Isis, mother of Horus, who is not only the moon that reflects the sun, she is the original creator, as well as the constellation of Virgo. As the moon, she is the “woman clothed with the sun,” and as the Virgin, she is the sun’s mother. She is also Stella Maris, the “Star of the Sea,” as she regulates the tides, a fact known of the moon beginning eons ago, as were the facts of the roundness of the earth and of the heliocentricity of the solar system—again, knowledge never actually
“lost” and “rediscovered,” as popularly portrayed.
The sun and moon were deemed to be one being in some cultures or twins in others. When eclipses occurred, it was said that the moon and sun were uniting to create lesser gods. Thus, the pantheon kept growing.
Although it is generally now considered to be “male,” the sun was also regarded as female in several places, including Alaska, Anatolia, Arabia, Australia, Canaan, England, Germany, India, Japan, North America and Siberia. The sun’s feminine side was, naturally, suppressed by the patriarchy. As Walker says:
The popular European tradition usually made the sun male and the moon female, chiefly to assert that “his” light was stronger, and that “she” shone only by reflected glory, symbol of the position of women in patriarchal society. However, Oriental and pre-Christian systems frequently made the sun a Goddess.cccxcvii
When one factors into this complexity the fertility aspect of the gods and goddesses of the grape and grain, along with the sexual imagery found in all mythologies and religions, one can understand why it has been so difficult to sort it
all out.
The Zodiac
As the mythos developed, it took the form of a play, with a cast of characters, including the 12 divisions of the sky called the signs or constellations of the zodiac.
The symbols that typified these 12 celestial sections of 30° each were not based on what the constellations actually look like but represent aspects of earthly life. Thus, the ancient peoples were able to incorporate these earthly aspects into the mythos and project them onto the all-important celestial screen.
These zodiacal designations have varied from place to place and era to era over the tens of thousands of years during which the skies have been observed, for a number of reasons, including the changes in the skies brought on by the precession.
For example, Scorpio is not only the eagle but also the scorpion. It is difficult to determine absolutely all of their origins, but the current zodiacal symbols or totems are or may have been devised as follows, based on the formula made by inhabitants of the northern hemisphere:
• Aries is represented as the Ram/Lamb because March/April is the time of the year when lambs are born.
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Taurus is the Bull because April/May is the time for ploughing and tilling.
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Gemini is the Twins, so-called for Castor and Pollux, the twin stars in its constellation, as well as because May/June is the time of the
“increase” or “doubling” of the sun, when it reaches its greatest strength.
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After the sun reaches its strength at the summer solstice and begins to diminish in Cancer (June/July), the stars are called the Crab, who
“backslides.”
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Leo is the Lion because, during the heat of July/August, the lions in Egypt would come out of the hot desert.
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Virgo, originally the Great Mother Earth, is the “Gleaning Virgin, who holds a sheath of wheat,” symbolizing August/ September, the time of the harvest.
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Libra (September/October) is the Balance, reflecting the autumnal equinox, when the days and night are again even in length.
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Scorpio is the Scorpion because in the desert areas the fierce storms of October/November were called “scorpions” and because this time of the year is the “backbiter” of the sun as it begins to wane.
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Sagittarius is the “vindictive Archer” who side-wounds and weakens the sun during its approach in November/ December towards the winter solstice.
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In Capricorn, the weakened sun encounters the “filthy, ill-omened He-goat,” who drags the solar hero down in December/January.
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Aquarius is the Water-Bearer because January/February is the time of winter rains.
• Pisces is represented by the Fishes because February/ March is the time when the thinning ice is broken and the fattened fish are plucked out.cccxcviii
The story of the skies was so important to the ancients that they were singularly focused on it and their lives in effect revolved around it. As we have seen, however, the heavens were revered not only by so-called Pagans but also by biblical peoples, including the Israelites, whose name and various Elohim were also stars and aspects of the solar-celestial mythos. In the Bible, the sun is worshipped in various forms by the Hebrews and “kings of Judah.” It is also overtly personified and imbued with divine and ethical qualities, as in Deuteronomy: “But thy friends be like the sun as he rises in his might.” Throughout the Old Testament important deeds are done “in the sight of this sun,” “before the sun,” or “under the sun,” revealing the ages-old perception of the sun as God’s proxy, judge or “eye.” So significant was the solar orb that it was ever a grave concern that the sun would “go down on the prophets.”
At Psalms 113:3, the chosen are instructed to praise the Lord from the “rising of the sun to its setting.” Psalms 85:11 states, “Faithlessness will spring up from the ground, and righteousness will look down from the sky.” Psalms 84:11 reads, “For the Lord God is a sun and shield.” At Psalms 68:32-32, the faithful are instructed to
“sing praises to Jah, to him who rides in the heavens, the ancient heavens . . . whose majesty is over Israel, and his power is in the skies,” exactly as was said about the ubiquitous solar hero.
At Psalms 72:17, we read, “May his name endure for ever, his fame continue as long as the sun,” and, at Malachi 1:11: “For from the rising of sun to its setting my name is great among the nations.” The Lord’s name is not said to be great after the setting of the sun, during the night, because his “name” is the sun, as we have seen Iao, Jah, YHWH and so on, to mean. Thus, the esteem of the sun by the Hebrews is evident; yet, the story of the solar hero is also found in numerous places in the Old Testament, but these stories are masked by carnalization and historicization. Indeed, so important was the sun to the ancients, including the Israelites, that they created a
“Sun Book,” a “Helio Biblio,” or “Holy Bible,”cccxcix the original of which can be found in the myths encoded in stone and story around the ancient world millennia before the Judeo-Christian bible was compiled.
The word “Bible” itself comes from the City of the Great Mother: Byblos, in Phoenicia. As Walker relates, “‘Bibles were named after her city because the earliest libraries were attached to her temple.”cd As noted, the Judeo-Christian bible was written by a number of hands, edited numerous times and contains countless errors and inaccuracies. It is a rehash of ancient legends and myths, and is not, therefore, the
“infallible Word of God.” “Such,” says Graham, “is the Bible’s ‘revealed truth’—other races’ mythology, the basis of which is cosmology.”cdi The cosmology or celestial mythos has in reality been hidden from the masses for many centuries for the purposes of enriching and empowering the ruling elite. Its conspiring priest-kings have ruled empires in full knowledge of it since time immemorial and have “lorded”
it over the heads of the “serfs.”
The Sun of God
Within the Sun Book or Holy Bible was incorporated by such priestcraft the most consolidated version of the celestial mythos ever assembled, the story of the “son of God.” First, we have seen that “God” is the sun. Second, in Job 38 the stars are called
“sons of God”; hence, one star would be a “son of God,” as well as the “son of the Sun.” Thus, the son of God is the sun of God. The solar mythos, in fact, explains why the narratives of the sons of God previously examined are so similar, with a godman who is crucified and resurrected, who does miracles and has 12 disciples, etc.: To wit, these stories were in actuality based on the movements of the sun through the heavens. In other words, Jesus Christ and the others upon whom he is predicated are
personifications of the sun, and the gospel fable is merely a repeat of a mythological formula revolving around the movements of the sun through the heavens.
For example, many of the world’s crucified godmen have their traditional birthdays on December 25th (“Christmas”). This date is set because the ancients recognized that (from a geocentric perspective in the northern hemisphere) the sun makes an annual descent southward until after midnight of December 21st, the winter solstice, when it stops moving southerly for three days and then starts to move northward again. During this time, the ancients declared that “God’s sun” had
“died” for three days and was “born again” after midnight of December 24th. Thus, these many different cultures celebrated with great joy the “sun of God’s” birthday on December 25th. The following are the main characteristics of the “sun of God”:
• The sun “dies” for three days at the winter solstice, to be born again or resurrected on December 25th.
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The sun of God is “born of a virgin,” which refers to both the new or
“virgin” moon and the constellation of Virgo.
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The sun’s “birth” is attended by the “bright Star,” either Sirius/Sothis or the planet Venus, and by the “Three Kings,” representing the three stars in the belt of Orion.
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The sun at its zenith, or 12 noon, is in the house or heavenly temple of the “Most High”; thus, “he” begins “his Father’s work” at “age” 12.
Maxwell relates, “At that point, all Egypt offered prayers to the ‘Most High’ God!”
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The sun enters into each sign of the zodiac at 30°; hence, the “Sun of God” begins his ministry at “age” 30. As Hazelrigg states, “. . . the Sun of the visible heavens has moved northward 30° and stands at the gate of Aquarius, the Water-bearer, or John the Baptist of the mystic planisphere, and here begins the work of ministry in the Palestine . . .”
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The sun is the “Carpenter” who builds his daily “houses” or 12 two- hour divisions.
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The sun’s “followers” or “disciples” are the 12 signs of the zodiac, through which the sun must pass.
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The sun is “anointed” when its rays dip into the sea.
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The sun “changes water into wine” by creating rain, ripening the grape on the vine and fermenting the grape juice.
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The sun “walks on water,” referring to its reflection.
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The sun “calms the sea” as he rests in the “boat of heaven.”
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8:23-7)
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When the sun is annually and monthly re-born, he brings life to the
“solar mummy,” his previous self, raising it from the dead.
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The sun triumphantly “rides an ass and her foal” into the “City of Peace” when it enters the sign of Cancer, which contains two stars called “little asses,” and reaches its fullness.
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The sun is the “Lion” when in Leo, the hottest time of the year, called the “throne of the Lord.”
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The sun is “betrayed” by the constellation of the Scorpion, the
backbiter, the time of the year when the solar hero loses his strength.
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The sun is “crucified” between the two thieves of Sagittarius and Capricorn.
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The sun is hung on a cross, which represents its passing through the equinoxes, the vernal equinox being Easter.
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The sun darkens when it “dies”: “The solar god as the sun of evening or of autumn was the suffering, dying sun, or the dead sun buried in the nether world.”
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The sun does a “stutter-step” at the winter solstice, unsure whether to return to life or “resurrect,” doubted by his “twin” Thomas.
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The sun is with us “always, to the close of the age” (Mt. 28:20), referring to the ages of the precession of the equinoxes.
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The sun is the “Light of the World,” and “comes on clouds, and every eye shall see him.”
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The sun rising in the morning is the “Savior of mankind.”
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The sun wears a corona, “crown of thorns” or halo.
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The sun was called the “Son of the Sky (God),” “All-Seeing,” the
“Comforter,” “Healer,” “Savior,” “Creator,” “Preserver,” “Ruler of the World,” and “Giver of Daily Life.”
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The sun is the Word or Logos of God.
• The all-seeing sun, or “eye of God,” was considered the judge of the living and dead who returned to Earth “on a white horse.”cdx
A. Churchward demonstrates the complex yet poetic celestial mythology of the Egyptians, developed around the core mythos long prior to the Christian era:
The Sun was not considered human in its nature when the Solar force at dawn was imaged by the Lion-faced Atum, the flame of the furnace by the fiery serpent Uati, the Soul of its life by the Hawk, the Ram, or the Crocodile. Until Har-ur the elder Horus was depicted as the child in the place of the calf or lamb, fish, or shoot of papyrus plant, which now occurred in the Solar Cult, no human figure was personalized in the Mythology of Egypt. . . . Isis in this Cult takes the place of Hathor as the Mother- Moon, the reproducer of light in the underworld. The place of conjunction and of rebegettal by the Sun-god was in the underworld, when she became the woman clothed with the sun. At the end of lunation the old Moon died and became a corpse;
it is at times portrayed as a mummy in the underworld and there it was revivified by the Sun-god, the Solar fecundation of the Moon representing the Mother, resulting in her bringing forth the child of light the “cripple deity,” who was begotten in the dark.cdxi
Massey provides another sketch of the mythos as applied to Horus, who, like Baal, was the sun in the Age of Taurus:
. . . [The] infant Horus, who sank down into Hades as the suffering sun to die in the winter solstice and be transformed to rise again and return in all his glory and power in the equinox at Easter.cdxii
As we have seen, the story of Jesus is virtually identical in numerous important aspects to that of Horus, a solar myth. Higgins spells it out:
The history of the sun . . . is the history of Jesus Christ. The sun is born on the 25th of December, the birthday of Jesus Christ. The first and greatest of the labours of Jesus Christ is his victory over the serpent, the evil principle, or the devil. In his first labor Hercules strangled the serpent, as did Cristna, Bacchus, etc. This is the sun triumphing over the powers of hell and darkness; and, as he increases, he prevails, till