Sun God, Sun Gods Sometimes applied to the cosmic logoi, which collectively are not only symbolized, but actually are represented by and through the septenary sun. Deities of masculine character are often called sun gods. Like the sun, a sun god may be on various planes, from that of a Logos to that of the absolute in various subordinate hierarchies.

Sun gods in mythology usually slay dragons, as Apollo slays Python, and often have serpents for their emblems, the serpent being dual in aspect -- high and low, inner and outer, active and passive, positive and negative, spiritual and material.

As in Egyptian mythology, Osiris the sun god manifests as Horus, his own son, who is also a sun god, in similar fashion sun gods are manifested in man and on the lower planes of nature; similar to the Egyptian Osiris we have Adonis, Bacchus, Krishna, Christ, etc., as the sun god or spiritual monad in man; and cosmically we find sun gods on various planes.

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Amun, Amun - God of Air, Amun - Creator, Amun - King, Amun - Fertility God, Amun - Sun God, Amun - Decline, Amun - Derived Terms

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Varl orbited around a star system with two suns, Evona and Ardos, which were worshipped as gods by the ancient Hutt civilization. One day, Evona died a fiery death when it was absorbed into a black hole, and as the planets smashed into each other in the chaos of Evona's death, Ardos, driven mad by anger, imploded. When the fiery explosion came, the gravitational fury unleashed by the death of Evona had seemingly smashed the entire star system into rubble; and indeed after it came all that had survived was rubble, except the planet Var ...

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Varl, Varl - The Legend of Varl and the Sun-Gods, Varl - The Legend of Varl and the Sun-Gods: Accurate?

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(332,950 Earths) (27.9 g) The Sun (or Sol) is the star at the center of our Solar system. Earth orbits the Sun, as do many other bodies, including other planets, asteroids, meteoroids, comets and dust. Its heat and light support almost all life on Earth. The Sun is a ball of plasma with a mass of about 2×1030 kg, which is somewhat higher than that of an average star. About 74% of its mass is hydrogen, with 25% helium and the rest made up of trace quantities of heavier elements. It is thou ...

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Around the Sun is an album by R.E.M. released in 2004. This release is notable for its stripped-back production, inciting some reviewers to label it slightly "flat" in sound. Around the Sun generally received lukewarm critical praise and despite hitting #1 in the UK, it became their first studio album to miss the US Top 10 (reaching #13) since 1988's Green and is still awaiting a gold record. In many ways, Around the Sun continues R.E.M.'s trend of refusing to be pressed into a stylistic corner and m ...

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A Raisin in the Sun is a 1959 play written by Lorraine Hansberry. It is the story of the Younger family, based on Hansberry's own experiences growing up in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood. A Raisin in the Sun was the first play written by a black woman to be produced on Broadway. The title comes from a poem by Langston Hughes. The play concerns the working-class Younger family, who dream of leaving behind the delapidated tenement apartment where they have lived for decades. Son Walter, a chauffeur, dreams of makin ...

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The Baltimore Sun is the major newspaper in Baltimore, Maryland, with a daily press run of about 430,000 copies, and a Sunday run of 540,000 copies. It was founded on May 17, 1837, by printer Arunah Shepherdson Abell. The Abell family owned the paper through 1910, when the Black family had a controlling interest. The paper was sold in 1986 to the Times Mirror Company, the same week the Baltimore News-American announced it would fold. Though now there is only a morning issue, for many years there were two distinct edition ...

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The midnight sun is a phenomenon occurring in latitudes north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle where the sun is continuously visible for at least 24 hours. Since there are no permanent human settlements south of the Antarctic Circle, the countries and territories whose population experiences it are limited to Alaska, northern Canada, Greenland, Iceland (due to refraction), northern Norway, Sweden and Finland, and extremities of Russia such as Novaya Zemlya or Murmansk. A quarter of Finland's territory lies above ...

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Victory over the Sun (Russian: Победа над солнцем) is a Russian Futurist opera premiered in 1913 at the Luna Park in St Petersburg. The opera was intended to underline parallels between literary text, musical score, and the art of painting. The libretto written in zaum langauge was contributed by Aleksei Kruchonykh, the music was written by Mikhail Matyushin, the prologue was added by Velim ...

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The Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon (born January 6, 1920) is the founder of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, first established as the Unification Church on May 1, 1954, in Seoul, South Korea. With his wife Hak Ja Han, he is co-leader of the Unification Movement. Rev. Moon's followers regard him and his wife as "the True Parents of humankind" and hail him as the Messiah. Sun Myung Moon - Name and forms of address. The Hanja for "Moon" (문, 文), the reverend's surname, means "word" or "truth" ...

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The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois. Although its circulation (particularly home-delivery) and advertising revenue are smaller than the rival Chicago Tribune, the Sun-Times makes more money on the newsstand. The Sun-Times is an urban tabloid, designed with hard-to-ignore front pages in an easily-carried format ideal for commuters on the 'L', Chicago's rapid transit. The paper has traditionally been liberal in its editorial outlook, althoug ...

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A Place in the Sun was Lit's first album released under their contract with RCA Records in 1999, and their second full-length album overall. It was recorded in 1998 and released on February 23, 1999. A Place in the Sun album - Track listing. "Four" (A. Jay Popoff, Jeremy Popoff) - 3:21 "My Own Worst Enemy" (A. J. Popoff, J. Popoff) - 2:49 "Down" (A. J. Popoff, J. Popoff) - 3:43 "Miserable" (A. J. Popoff, J. Popoff) - 4:16 "No Big Thing" (A. J. Popoff, ...

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The term Black Sun is of esoteric or occult significance. It has been used by a variety of esotericists; for example, as the name of the well-known Black Sun Press of Mary Phelps Jacob, and in lyrics of the industrial music group Coil. It also figures prominently as a symbol in Nazi mysticism. The shape of the symbol as used in Neo-Nazism is based on the design of a floor mosaic at Wewelsburg castle, in the room used by the SS for occult meetings. Due to some visual similarities with the swastika the design is popular among German Neo-Nazis as ...

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Sun: One of the trumps of the Major Arcana of the tarot. Numbered XIX. In the system of Eliphas Levi, it corresponds to the Hebrew letter Qoph. In the system of the Golden Dawn, The Sun corresponds to the Hebrew letter Resh and the Sun.

Also See: Le Soleil

(See also: Sun, Magic, Shamanism, Paganism, Wicca)

Sun: The Sun rules Leo. Vitality is the energy reflected by the Sun in the astrological chart. Just as the Sun is the source of life for all living things we know of, the Sun’s position in your chart is an indicator of the way you approach life. Nearly everyone knows their Sun sign and a little bit about it. We read the astrology column in the newspaper to see how the day will be for our sign. Many people like the time of year around their birthday, not just because it is near their birthday, but because the energy of the Sun sign is so conformable.

Young children express the Sun sign energy clearly and directly. We tend to move away from this clarity as we learn different forms of expression, yet we always come back to the foundation of the Sun sign, learning to perfect the strengths that it indicates and to compensate for any weaknesses. The Sun is, in addition to being the source of life, the sustainer of our individual character. When you understand the deeper nature of your Sun sign, you also understand the core direction for your personal expression in the world.

The house position of the Sun in your chart indicates one area of life that takes on greater importance than any other. It is the area where you are perhaps the most self-conscious, it is where your will can be best expressed, it is where you can develop the greatest arrogance. You will focus loyalty and generosity in that area, as well as discover your own personal dignity.

The house and sign of the sun indicates an area in which you will strive to express yourself, and you will want to be recognized for your activities in that area of life. As you gain experience in living, you may become bolder in your efforts to attain your Sun sign goals. You can become a leader in this area because you understand the deepest and broadest values of this area of your life.

When you read about your Sun sign, take the details to heart. Make a personal effort – use your will – to develop the highest and best expression of this sign. It is your birthright, and the area where you can learn to speak and act with authority.

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Sun The central focus of radiating energy, physical and spiritual, of any solar system. In our solar system the sun is one of several suns subordinate to the more central sun of the universal solar system. In the solar cosmos as a whole it is the Logos, the head of the septenary hierarchy of creative forces, corresponding to the Christos, Abraxas, Mithras, Dionysos, etc., in man. Its names among the many peoples of the earth are countless: Osiris, Ormazd, Apollo, Phoebus, Ammon-Ra, Helios, Surya, etc. Symbolized by the circle with a central point, it is for its own system the All-Father. Sun worship, in the occult sense, was once the universal foundation of religion, but it has mostly given place to what is really lunar worship. The sun is often found contrasted with the moon as spiritual is with material; and solar magic means white magic as contrasted with the dark lunar magic. Thus we find deities classed as solar and lunar, or particular deities have both a solar and a lunar aspect. As Father and Son he is seen in Osiris and Horus, atman and buddhi-manas, God and Christos.

Our visible sun, though the center of its system, is not the father of the planets but their "co-uterine brother," one of the "eight sons of Aditi." It is not the creator of the fohatic forces, but their radiating focus. Nor is it an incandescent and cooling body; it is nature's great laboratory of intelligently vital and electromagnetic forces for our system. "The Sun is the heart of the Solar World (System) and its brain is hidden behind the (visible) Sun. From thence, sensation is radiated into every nerve-centre of the great body, and the waves of the life-essence flow into each artery and vein. . . . The planets are its limbs and pulses" (SD 1:541). Physiologically, the sun pulsates life through the solar system, in connection with the 11 and 22 year sunspot phenomena -- the solar spots being due to the contraction of the solar heart.

The sun is a vitally electric glowing sphere; what our eyes see is a reflection, the shell of the real sun, which is hidden behind this reflection. Further, the sun is the storehouse of the vital force of the solar system, which is the "Noumenon of Electricity"; it issues forth from the sun as life currents not only for the earth and every organism upon it, but for all the planets of the solar system (SD 1:531). The production of this vital energy will not cease until the end of the solar manvantara when the sun will instantaneously disappear, after certain long-standing premonitory symptoms.

The sun, like each of the planets, is a chain of globes, of which we see only the globe on the fourth cosmic plane -- a highly ethereal body composed of the fifth, sixth, and seventh, states of matter (counting upwards) of the fourth cosmic plane.

Regarding the elements which scientists state are present in the sun, because such elements are present in spectroscopic observations, theosophy holds that no element on the earth is missing in the sun, and there are other elements there which are unknown to science, yet which are present in the sun.

In the enumeration of the seven sacred planets the sun is used as a substitute for an esoteric planet.

The enormous importance which the sun assumes in nature is based on its being the spiritual and intellectual head of solar system, as well as the general physical and psychological life-giver.

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Mankind's most fundamental understanding of the Sun is as the luminous disk in the heavens whose presence above the horizon creates day, and whose absence causes night. In many prehistoric and ancient cultures, the Sun was thought to be a deity or other supernatural phenomenon. One of the first people in the Western world to offer a scientific explanation for the sun was the Greek philosopher Anaxagoras, who reasoned that it was a giant flaming ball of metal even larger than the Peleponessus, and not the chariot of Helios. For teaching this heresy he was imprisoned b ...

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Sun, Sun - General information, Sun - Structure, Sun - Core, Sun - Radiation zone, Sun - Convection zone, Sun - Photosphere, Sun - Temperature minimum, Sun - Chromosphere, Sun - Corona, Sun - Theoretical problems, Sun - Solar neutrino problem, Sun - Coronal heating problem, Sun - Faint young sun problem, Sun - Magnetic field, Sun - Position of the Sun through the year, Sun - Solar space missions, Sun - History and future of the Sun, Sun - Human understanding of the Sun, Sun - The Sun as a power source, Sun - Sun and eye damage

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The Sun is thought to be a second-generation star, whose formation may have been triggered by shockwaves from a nearby supernova. This is suggested by a high abundance of heavy elements such as iron, gold and uranium in the solar system: the most plausible ways that these elements could be produced are by endothermic nuclear reactions during a supernova or by transmutation via neutron absorption inside a massive first generation star. Our Sun does not have enough mass to explode as a supernova, and its mass is below the Chandrasekhar ...

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Sun, Sun - General information, Sun - Structure, Sun - Core, Sun - Radiation zone, Sun - Convection zone, Sun - Photosphere, Sun - Temperature minimum, Sun - Chromosphere, Sun - Corona, Sun - Theoretical problems, Sun - Solar neutrino problem, Sun - Coronal heating problem, Sun - Faint young sun problem, Sun - Magnetic field, Sun - Position of the Sun through the year, Sun - Solar space missions, Sun - History and future of the Sun, Sun - Human understanding of the Sun, Sun - The Sun as a power source, Sun - Sun and eye damage

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Sun

1.    Earth's star, nucleus of the solar system, source of life and energy.

2.    Symbol of divine illumination. The major focus of the personal horoscope representing our life force, will, and iner life. Its location indicates the character being developed and refined, as well as the life thrust. The Sun governs the physical heart and personal stamina. The Sun rules the sign of Leo and is considered Ray 2 in nature.

3.    Tarot #19marriage, happiness.

4.    Wind, the gentleone of the eight I Ching trigrams

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The Sun was launched in 1964 as a replacement for the Daily Herald, which Mirror Group Newspapers had bought from Odhams Press and the TUC. The Herald, which had until its sale to Mirror Group in 1960 officially taken the political line of the Labour Party and remained Labour-loyalist after that, was selling well over 1.2 million copies a day at the time of its demise. But its ageing working-class readers were unattractive to advertisers, Mirror Group did not want the Herald to compete with the Mirror, and market research suggested there was ...

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