sun cult

Delta Solar is meant to pay homage to modern technology and the Inca sun cult.

As the temple faces east, the structure is likely to be connected with the sun cult of Rê and the resurrection of the king.

Another music video was filmed for "Alchemy of the Black Sun Cult".

Although this design is called God's eye, it is thought to originate from the sun cult of the pagan Magyars.

Due to the strength of the pagan sun cult in Emesa, Christians initially did not settle in the city.

He rebuilt the important temple of Re-Atum in Heliopolis which was the centre of the sun cult.

The Fifth Dynasty was marked by an especially strong devotion to the sun cult, which was based at Heliopolis.

In one incident, the poet stops short in using an offensive statement dealing with the rites of the Egyptian sun cult; although the basics are there.

Deidre would have preferred something more Arab; even more to her distaste was the presence of 2 English couples of the "sun cult" variety.

It is assumed that the Golden Hats served as religious insignia for the deities or priests of a sun cult then widespread in Central Europe.

According to Virpiranta, the reason why this retriggered an onslaught was that the Irish did not approve when their prince was kidnapped for the Sun cult.

There is very little known about Birutė's life like all women after the sun cults took power, but after her death a strong cult developed among Lithuanians, especially in Samogitia.

In his study of cave paintings, Nicolăescu-Plopşor listed images he believed were representations of men and a solar motif, and theorized the existence of a Sun cult.

The Christianity that coalesced and took shape in Constantine's time was in fact a hybrid, containing significant skeins of thought derived from Mithraism and from the sun cult.

The Sun cult was the main Illyrian cult, and the Sun was represented by a swastika in clockwise motion, and it stood for the movement of the Sun.

Virpiranta, Mika (2012) Sun Cults versus Thunder Cults - Punic Origins of Druidism and Christianity.

Christian doctrine, as promulgated by Rome at the time, had much in common with the cult of Sol Invictus anyway; and thus it was able to flourish unmolested under the sun cult's umbrella of tolerance.

The Chankillo towers thus provide evidence of early solar horizon observations and of the existence of sophisticated Sun cults, preceding the Sun pillars of Incaic Cusco by almost two millennia.

They said the position of the towers in relation to observation points inside the walled complex was firm evidence that this was a place for solar study in calendar-making and ritual ceremonies and feasts of sun cults.

In the third century, when sun cults like the Mithraic religion of Persia found their way to Rome, days in December were given over to celebrate the rebirth of Sol Invictus: the invincible sun.

Crucially, however, he redefines the builders' religion, arguing that it was not a sun cult per se but a 'cult of creation', and he devotes an entire volume The Midnight Sun (2004) to the establishment of this idea.

As the room is located in order to allow the first rays of the sun to hit it at dawn, there has been speculation that it was part of a Mexica sun cult, although other interpretations claim the temple was a solar calendar or a meeting place for nobles.

Simek states that the only evidence of the sun assuming a personification stems from the Old High German Incantation reference and from Poetic Edda poems, and that both of these references do not provide enough information to assume a Germanic sun cult.

Experts have discovered hearths from this time period dating from 4000 to 3000 BC in Yagodina Cave and idyllic figures connected with the cult to the Woman-Mother and the Sun Cult in Haramiska Cave near the Devil's Throat Cave.