Sun Worship

(I see them less as a shameful display of careless sun-worship and more of a comparative tool to see how brown I really am.) ❋ Unknown (2005)

“Why must you perform this barbaric sun-worship nonsense?” he said, pacing. ❋ Unknown (2005)

It has also been conjectured that some of the perforated bones and teeth of animals found in various deposits were amulets worn for religious purposes; and some have gone so far as to infer, that the ornamentations on some of these so-called amulets represent the sun, and that, consequently, sun-worship prevailed among the Cave-men. ❋ Emory Adams Allen (N/A)

These were used for astronomical observations and for sun-worship. ❋ W. Scott-Elliot (N/A)

The worship of light, either in its pure essence or in the forms of sun-worship and fire-worship, because the sun and the fire were causes of light, was among the earliest and most universal superstitions of the world. ❋ Albert G. Mackey (N/A)

It was a modification and purification of the old fire-worship, in which the fire became a symbol of the sun, so that it was really a species of sun-worship. ❋ Albert G. Mackey (N/A)

This early and very general prevalence of the sentiment of sun-worship is worthy of especial attention on account of the influence that it exercised over the spurious Freemasonry of antiquity, of which I am soon to speak, and which is still felt, although modified and Christianized in our modern system. ❋ Albert G. Mackey (N/A)

Could we verify this author's statements, this illustration and the preceding one would be very good evidence of the prevalence of sun-worship among the effigy Mound Builders of Wisconsin. ❋ Emory Adams Allen (N/A)

In the great Toltec empire of Mexico the sun-worship of their forefathers was still the national religion, while the bloodless offerings to their beneficent Deity, Quetzalcoatl, consisted merely of flowers and fruit. ❋ W. Scott-Elliot (N/A)

In Freemasonry, the east has always been considered the most sacred of the cardinal points, because it is the place where light issues; and it was originally referred to the primitive religion, or sun-worship. ❋ Albert G. Mackey (N/A)

Many, indeed nearly all, of the masonic symbols of the present day can only be thoroughly comprehended and properly appreciated by this reference to sun-worship. ❋ Albert G. Mackey (N/A)

But I need not multiply these instances of sun-worship. ❋ Albert G. Mackey (N/A)

And so, then, here again we have in Masonry that old and often-repeated allusion to sun-worship, which has already been seen in the officers of a lodge, and in the point within a circle. ❋ Albert G. Mackey (N/A)

One might suppose that the worship of the heavenly bodies would remain the purest and noblest; and yet the sun-worship of the Assyrians and the ❋ Frank F. Ellinwood (N/A)

They appear to be connected with Semitic sun-worship, and are assigned by Bent to the same period as the temple at Baalbek, though some antiquarians would place them much earlier; the representation of a castle in a single stone seems to bear some relation to the idea worked out in the monolith churches of Lalibela described by Raffray. ❋ Various (N/A)

Perfectly to understand this symbol, I must refer, as a preliminary matter, to the worship of the _Phallus_, a peculiar modification of sun-worship, which prevailed to a great extent among the nations of antiquity. ❋ Albert G. Mackey (N/A)

It is a very ancient symbol, and is supposed by some to be a relic of the primitive sun-worship. ❋ Albert G. Mackey (N/A)

This arc is found with peculiar appropriateness upon a gold coin, since it is a symbol of the old sun-worship, or of Apollo, under whose auspices gold coins were originally issued. ❋ Various (N/A)

But Sabianism, while it was the most ancient of the religious corruptions, was, I have said, also the most generally diffused; and hence, even among nations which afterwards adopted the polytheistic creed of deified men and factitious gods, this ancient sun-worship is seen to be continually exerting its influences. ❋ Albert G. Mackey (N/A)

The rite was symbolic of the apparent daily course of the sun from the east to the west by the way of the south, and was undoubtedly derived from the ancient sun-worship. ❋ Albert G. Mackey (N/A)

[Paul] Klavins created an [intresting] [religion] known as Universalistic Sun Worship. ❋ Paul Klavins (2007)

When I started getting depressed and [stressed out], my friend suggested [I try] practicing Sun Worshipping Atheism. My girlfriend says Sun Worshipping Atheism has made me way [nicer] to be around. ❋ WithSun (2011)

"Hey man, [ditch] that old, dirty religion for this new, happy, [shiny], warm one called Universalistic Sun Worship." "You mean [athelism]?" "Yeah dude" ❋ Jacks Raging Bile Duct (2009)