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aryan sun myths the origin of religions

by sarah elizabeth titcomb

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Author: sarah elizabeth titcomb

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This wonderful book researches different mythologies of the sun from the ancient Sumeria till the Christianity. The author claims that most of holidays connected with the sun in Christianity originated as myths in ancient cultures. It explains why so many religions before Christianity had the same sun myths and different sun gods for representation of them. The author is convinced that Christianity with its appearance also borrowed various facts from the sun myth story.This process was quite long and sometimes even painful. The way Sarah Elizabeth Titcomb depicts the first sun myths is really fascinating. She is not claiming that Jesus himself was a complete myth but she insists that the certain mythologies made their contribution to His images, although there are no direct proof to it. Titcomb, though, does a wonderful job when finding and applying precious evidence to determine this.

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...religious ideas of all peoples were undoubtedly much the same. The un- questioned supremacy of the sun among the heavenly bodies, the striking changes to which it was subjected in the variation from day to night, and from summer to winter; its life- . Giving beneficence, and its seeming struggle with the demons of storm and cold; not only everywhere exalted this heavenly body into the position of king of the gods in every system of nature-worship, but gave rise to numerous myths, which necessarily in some measure cor- responded, since they were everywhere based on the same phenomena of nature. It is true that nature-worship was not the sole primitive reli- gious conception of mankind. Various other general ideas made their way into and influ- enced systems of belief, prominent among these being the custom of ancestor worship, which widely, perhaps universally, prevailed in de- veloping nations, and exerted a vigorous in- fluence upon unfolding religions. Mythology, however, occupies...