She always tells us history of our religion. ... After that offered water to Sun. In India we worship Sun as Lord of lights and we offer him water as it rises. ... I went their and she told me to look at the Sun and the coloring rays coming out of it. ...
The sun is viewed as the power of the Almighty. They are not worshipping the sun, but praying to the Almighty, and the sun is a sign and symbol for that. ... Hopi Religion Hopis believe that the world was created by Taiowa (the sun-father) and Sotuknang, his nephew. ... Religious performances of song, dance and drama, coupled with traditional poetry and oral histories, reinforce Pueblo values and cosmological views. ...
He has written many scholarly articles on topics of religion, sociology, and politics and writes a weekly column for the Chicago Sun-Times, he has also been awarded numerous honorary degrees from many prestigious universities. ... For scholars of American history, religion and sociology the work provides insight into a largely overlooked issue in this country. As to his thesis Greeley's abundance of anecdotal evidence both of well documented events in American history, and of more contemporary events go a long way to persuading the reader that their certainly is a serious issue at hand ...
Akhenaten's brief reign, of hardly more than sixteen years, happened at a difficult time in Egyptian history; a period in which the decline of the previously unparalleled Egyptian empire seemed inevitable. ... Effectively discarding the beliefs of an Empire, Akhenaten denounced the existing polytheist religious hierarchy and replaced it with the monotheist worship of a sole God; the Aten, or sun disk. ... Akhenaten, possibly in a move to lessen the political power of the Priests, introduced the worship of one god, the Aten, or Sun disk. ... The movement of the capital was so significant...
Deities who represented different aspects of life such as love and war; and another aspects of nature, such as the idolatry of the sun, the sea, the sky and the fire. ... "The Odyssey" and "The Iliad", were masterpieces created by Homero, which represented -more than magical novels- a real testimony about a specific memento in the history of the Greek civilization (Graf). ...
China has a long history of 5,000 years. So it has inherited a lot from the long history, except on religions. ... The main character Wukong,Sun, a monkey born in the rock, first learnt his magician with a god of Taoism. ... And there was not a single religious war in the history. ... Such believe made good effects in the history. ...
The king was considered chosen by the sun god himself to rule over the people. ... Under the guidance of the Aton, or sun-disk, Amenhotep IV changed his name to Akhenaton and ruled with an emphasis that he was a divine king. ... They worshipped the major divinities such as the Sun-God and the Water God but also local Gods and home Gods as well. ... The divine origin of the written law is emphasized by a belief in which the king is depicted receiving the code from the sun god, Shamash, the god of justice. ... Earlier in history, man did not understand many things around him as well as he was no...
Hinduism is a major world religion, not merely by virtue of its many followers (estimated at more than 700 million) but also because of its profound influence on many other religions during its long, unbroken history, which dates from about 1500 BC. ... Most Hindus chant the gayatri hymn to the sun at dawn, but little agreement exists as to what other prayers should be chanted. ... One of the "four goals of humanity- (along with pleasure, profit, and release), dharma represents the belief that the way things are (descriptive law), for example, the sun rises in the east, is inseparable from the...
Religion is the basis of many wars and battles over the history of time. For example, the history of Austria details the events of the religious war between the Catholics and the Protestants. ... They have a God for everything that they come into contact with everyday such as the sun, land, moon, water and air. ... Cults will never have unwavering public support because the majority of the world wants love, a strong history to look back on, a sense of strong spirituality and acceptance. ...
The same German aesthetic tradition can also be found in J.J Winckelmann's writings, such as "History of the Art of Antiquity", "Thoughts on the Imitation of the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks", and G.E Lessing's "Laocöon". ... The development of art from one form to the other is what Hegel defines as the history of art. ... The Zoroastrians believed then that all things with the presence of light, such as the stars, the moon, the sun, and the fire, are actually Ormudz, himself. ...
As stated above, demonic possession is a very religious event and this remains true through out much of history. ... The Bible is used to explain events from hundreds of years and as a modern day text, is used more to demine morality and ethics than why the sun sets and our place in the universe. ...
If the time is taken to look back at Christianity's history it is easily seen that Christianity has worked hand in hand with science to help promote its growth, not its stifle. ... "Early Christians also rejected belief in cyclical time, the conviction that history replays itself in great, ineluctably recurring phases" (Carroll/Shiflett, p.60). ... There defiantly weren't any conflicts as of yet in Christian history. ... Copernicus, an astronomer, came up with the idea that the sun was the center of the universe, not the earth, and Galileo furthered this idea and published writing...
Religions do not miraculously appear in history out of a blank space. ... As the story goes, "the first generation of Mesopotamian gods were the gods of light and darkness, the second generation were the gods of fresh and salt waters, the third generation were the gods of all forms of vegetation, the fourth generation were the gods of the sun, moon and stars, the fifth generation were the gods of the living creatures of the earth, and the sixth generation god Marduk created humans so that they could be slaves to the gods.... On this day, God created the sun, moon, and the stars; "th...
Apollo is the god of sun, music, arts, knowledge, healing, plague, darkness, beauty and enlightenment. ... " That person by definition in "The Sacred Quest" represents "certain persons is a characteristic of numerous religious traditions, most obviously those whose history points to a founder or great figure at the beginning of the tradition.... While others religions have focused on the earth, the sky and or the sun. ...
Furthermore, evidence of connections between these stimuli and religious fervor is apparent throughout history. ... This particular sentiment has been prevalent throughout recorded history, with countless cults and organized religions engaging in torture, sacrifice, and murder of non-believers (Buckman 31). This limbic-religious belligerence is even apparent in the history of one of the modern days" most dominant religion, Christianity. ... Similar rage and murderous reactions were characteristic of many aggressive, jealous, conquering, angry, and belligerent patriarchal gods throughout hist...
The life, culture, and viewpoints of the Chicana on the border are impacted by a variety of experiences, a specific culture, proud histories, and the physical surroundings of the border. ... She was the mother of 400 according to the Aztec beliefs including Huitzilopochtli: the god of war, the sun and human sacrifice, as well as Coyolxauhqui who was a powerful magician. ...
These two authors I came across numerous times in my research and was fascinated by the generous amount of history I learned about Japan's former rulers. ... My intrigue with the land of the sun begun many years ago and so I have always been well versed in its traditions and cultural mores. ... The Shinto tradition has a story of creation that states two kami (the Japanese equivalent to gods) descended from the heavens and stirred the ocean and created the land and the kami of the sun, Amaterasu, who later gives birth to the first emperor (117). ...
