They are likely interstellar dust particles: the ashy remains
of ancient suns, stars that died fiery deaths billions of years ago.
We reject the sun - myth theory that Samson (Hebrew shemshon meaning «little sun») represents the survival
of an ancient sun - worshiping cult.
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The modern religion being pushed on us is a sick
ancient Pagan
Sun worship religion, that has nothing whatsoever to do with the teachings
of Christ.
We thus find the typical
ancient picture
of a domed canopy over the sky, supported by pillars, with a flat earth below floating on a watery abyss, with
sun, moon and stars moving in the heavens relative to the earth, and with the world axis intersecting the sacred center
of one's nation.
In the understanding
of most
ancient people and, thus, in the Bible, the
sun orbits the Earth.
I imagine myself in the biblical story, feeling the
sun on my face and the earth beneath my feet, hearing the voices
of ancient characters whisper in my ear.
The date
of Christmas may have initially been chosen to correspond with the day exactly nine months after early Christians believed Jesus to have been conceived, [20] or with one or more
ancient polytheistic festivals that occurred near southern solstice (i.e., the Roman winter solstice); a further solar connection has been suggested because
of a biblical verse [a] identifying Jesus as the «
Sun of righteousness».
Others have called it Aton the
sun disk, but that was 3000 years ago in Egypt, even then the whorship
of the
SUN was an
ancient one long forgotten by the Eyptians at that time.
After all, the dominant religions in the United States keep their followers by encouraging them to remain ignorant
of other religions out
of fear they will find out that there's basically nothing new under the
sun, and that the ideas
of Christianity date all the way back to
ancient Egyptian religion ant the mythology surrounding Horus and Set.
In
ancient culture the peak times
of the agricultural and solar years, such as spring planting, fall harvest, winter solstice, and spring equinox, threatened to seduce the people
of God to the worship
of fertility and
sun gods and goddesses connected with these peak times.
Regarding the moon: - The
ancient Greek philosopher Anaxagoras (d. 428 BC) reasoned that the
Sun and Moon were both giant spherical rocks, and that the latter reflected the light
of the former.
The
sun drenched valley
of the Nile and the flooded plains
of ancient Sumer both exerted profound influence in the molding
of the outlook
of ancient men for whom Egypt and Babylonia were the world and their forces the realities by which man must direct his life.
Theoretically a Purana is supposed to deal with five subjects: (1) the creation; (2) re-creation, the periodical destruction and renewal
of the worlds; (3) the genealogy
of the gods and the
ancient Rishis; (4) the great time periods, each
of which has a primal ancestor or Manu; and (5) the history
of the early dynasties which trace their origin to the
sun or the moon.
Spring is the season
of re-birth, the time when
ancient peoples celebrated the return
of the
sun, the awakening
of the earth, the return to fertility, the rise from the winter hibernation.
Many
ancient religions were focused around the worship
of the
sun, moon, and stars.
Ancient people didn't understand rain, thunder, the
sun, the moon, change
of season.
In
ancient Greece, they knew the
sun was the center
of our solar system and that the earth was round and revolved around it.
Logic, falsifiability, hypothesis construction, faith vs testability, possible number
of answers to questions we do not have the science to fully explore (as in
ancient Egypt with the
sun god).
It's a Middle Eastern
ancient grain that's harvested green, then
sun - dried and roasted giving it a distinctive nutty flavor, very worthy
of trying, if you can find it.
The chipotle pepper has a long history
of flavor that dates back to
ancient Aztecs, who passed the unique process
of smoking
sun - ripened red jalapeño peppers down through generations.
Produced by a cooperative
of small farmers who practice an
ancient method
of removing impurities from organic whole cane juice by using wild - crafted herbs and then
sun drying.
Smooth hills scrolling before your eyes, covered with
sun tinged grass, while a refreshing breeze brings the memories
of an
ancient land.
Praasha Desire Praatika Image / Symbolic Pracheeta Origin / Starting point Pradyuta To begin to shine Pragnika Clever lady Praharsha Happy girl Prahasini Continues smiling girl Prajisha Morning Pramik Best / Fulfilling desires Pranal God Pranamya Offering obeisances Pranani Most beautiful Pranavee Goddess Parvati / The first sound
of universe Aum (Alternate Spelling: Pranavi) Pranaya Leader Pranidhi Spy Pranika Goddess Parvati Pranisha Love to life Pranja Very cute Pranusha Prathama Usha — first rays
of the morning
Sun Pranvi Forgiveness / Goddess
of life / Maa Parvati Pranvuta Praised Prasheila
Ancient time Prashi Accomplishment / Fame Prashvita Parvati / Lord Shivas wife Prathulya Incomparable Prathusha Saisudha / Early morning / Dawn Prathysha Saisudha / Early morning / Dawn Prathyumna Victory Prathyusha Saisudha / Early morning / Dawn Prati One who appreciates and loves music Pratichi West Pratika Image / Beautiful / Symbol / Symbolic Pratitha Well known Prattusha Beautiful / soft Prattysha Morning Pratusha Saisudha / Early morning / Dawn Pratushya Morning Pratyaksha One who is real Pratyaya Perception / Thought / Intention Pratyusha Bright morning Pravara Eminent Prayukta Experimented Prayushi Pure Prayuta Mingled with Saadhvi Religious women / Courteous / Polite Saahana Raga Saarya Name
of a pious woman Saatvika Goddess Durga / Calm (Alternate Spelling: Saatwika) Saavi Goddess Lakshmi / The
Sun Saavini Pertaining to the month
of Saavan / One who prepares Soma Sabrang Rainbow Sachita Consciousness Sadhvi Religious women / Courteous / Polite Saesha With great desire and wish / Truth
of life Sagnika Fiery / Passionate / Married / With fire Sahuri War / Powerful / Victorious / The earth Sahya A mountain in india Saisha With great desire and wish / Truth
of life (Alternate Spelling: Saiyeisha) Saketa Lord Krishna (Alternate Spelling: Saketha) Samanvi One who has all the best qualities Sambhwi Durga Samiha Generous Samika Peaceful Samiksha Analysis Samita Collected Samithra Good friend Sanchana Gathering
of good habits Sanchaya Collection Sanha Skilful / Radiance / Elegance / Conciseness Sanheeta A compilation or a bunch
of vedic hymns / Code (Alternate Spelling: Sanhitha) Sanmaya Equal / Removal
of obstacles / Etc Sanmita Goddess Parvati / Prasanna Lakshmi Sanoja Eternal Sanrakta Red / Pleasant / Beautiful Sanwari Dusky Sanya Eminent / Distinguished / Born on saturday Sarasvi Water / Saraswathi Goddess Sarayu A holy river Sarisha Charming Sarit River Sarjena Creative Sarunati Nobleminded Sarvani Durga / Universal / Complete Sarvari Night
The NYC - owned landmark building that's home to the Department
of Buildings — best known to passers - by for its
ancient clock advertising the old New York
Sun newspaper — is falling apart.
And in the way
ancient religions worshipped the power
of the
sun, wind or sea, we are supposed bow down before the unstoppable power
of market forces.
Ancient Greek astronomers, such as Hipparchus (c. 190 — 120 B.C.), studied eclipses and the geometrical relationships
of the Earth, moon and
sun that made them possible.
9 The Tropic
of Cancer — the latitude on Earth where the
sun is directly overhead at noon on the summer solstice — got its name because when the
ancients established it, the
sun appeared in the constellation Cancer.
Ancient Ingredients Flakes rich in calcium and aluminum, as old as the solar system itself, probably originated in the hot center
of the flattened, spinning disk
of gas and dust that gave rise to our
sun and its planets.
Ancient stellar winds flowing from young,
Sun - like stars that were just a toddler - like 0.6 billion years old compared with the 4.6 billion year age
of the
Sun.
The 30 - odd bronze gears and 2,000 inscribed Greek characters in the Antikythera Mechanism helped
ancient Greek scientists track the cycles
of the solar system and calculate the motions
of the
sun, the moon, and the planets.
Heliocentrism: Copernicus, 1543 One
of the greatest insights ever, conceived by some
ancient Greeks but established only two millennia later: the Earth revolves around the
sun (as do other planets).
Aging red giant stars coexist with their more plentiful younger cousins, the smaller, white,
Sun - like stars, in this crowded region
of our galaxy's
ancient central hub, or bulge.
«So far, much
of our surface exploration by rovers has focused on
ancient terrains and whether or not the environments they record were habitable,» said
Sun, lead author on the study and a graduate student working with Milliken.
In a new study in the journal Nature Astronomy, a team
of researchers from Dublin City University, Columbia University, Georgia Tech, and the University
of Helsinki, add evidence to one theory
of how these
ancient black holes, about a billion times heavier than our
sun, may have formed and quickly put on weight.
1 The sultry «dog days
of summer» get their name from
ancient astronomers who noticed that those days coincide with the period when Sirius, the Dog Star, rises at the same time as the
sun.
Most
of the galaxy's stars, including the
sun, reside in a thin, pancake - shaped disk, but
ancient stars populate a halo surrounding the disk.
«
Ancient Egyptians equated the birth
of a child to the birth
of the
sun on the eastern horizon,» Wegner says.
The team, conducting a fairly routine hunt for
ancient, massive black holes, was surprised to find one with a mass
of more than 7 billion times our
Sun making it among the most massive black holes ever discovered.
In 2010, a team
of archaeologists led by University
of Alaska Fairbanks» Ben Potter discovered the
ancient cremated remains
of a three - year - old child at the Upward
Sun River site in the Tanana River Valley
of central Alaska.
A relatively tiny amount
of nitrous oxide could have trapped enough
of the
Sun's energy inside
ancient Earth's atmosphere to create warm surface conditions favourable to the evolution
of life.
Ancient cultures often modified natural rock formations or built stone monuments to mark the motions
of the
sun and moon, charting the seasons, creating calendars and monitoring eclipses.
It was discovered that Venus» slow rotational period
of 117 Earth days, in conjunction with the
ancient analogue
of our
Sun used in the study, combined to create a hospitable surface temperature only a few degrees cooler than the temperature on present - day Earth.
According to the
ancient philosophies
of ayurveda and traditional Chinese medicine, the muggy, scorching summer
sun can be counterbalanced with cooling ingredients.
Firmly rooted in Chinese, Ayurvedic and other
ancient medicinal practices that have been around (and working) for thousands
of years,
Sun Potion operates on the idea that pretty much anything can be cured with the right blend
of herbs, known to the initiated as «potions.»
While no one knows exactly when
Sun Salutations first started or what they first looked like, many yogis assert that they date back thousands
of years to when
ancient Indians would chant mantras while bowing and then standing with arms raised in a ritual prostration.
«It is revering the divine in the form
of the
sun, which is an
ancient practice to invigorate not just the physical body but the subtle energetic body,» Harrigan explains.
A style that is the most
ancient and traditional is a scientific amalgamation
of two qualities that define the foundation
of human existence — Ha (the
Sun) and Tha (the Moon).
The Pharaohs
of Ancient Egypt even imported shea butter to their pyramids on wagons, for its strong sunscreen ability against the harsh desert
sun.