However, the sun rises in the East, thus the solar cult often used the symbol.

Over time the Solar Cult came to lead the military and the military led the government.

During this time a widespread solar cult is believed to have existed in Central Europe.

Also the earlier Persian solar cult, the worship of Mazda.

The importance of the solar cult gave rise to a number of myths concerning Re.

They believed that it marqued the moment in which the dead came back to life and several author have related it with the solar cult.

One can find the numerous evidences of the solar cult throughout the territories once controlled by the Autariatae.

In ancient time (bronze) it was the Pagan Solar Cult center.

Berrens deals with coin-evidence of Imperial connection to the Solar cult.

What biblical injunction or solar cult impelled the city fathers to discard their compasses?

Diagonalized cross signs found on many of the stone objects may have had their origin in the Hallstatt - Lusatian solar cult.

The idea was Augustan, or earlier, expressed most clearly in Stoic philosophy and the solar cult, especially under Aurelian.

He thinks there is sufficient evidence to say that we have to do with a solar cult centred on Lavinium connecting the sun with water and earth.

Another solar cult, not directly connected with Harpocrates, was that of the Unconquered Sun, Sol Invictus.

As such, it is normally a benevolent deity; and, indeed, is perceived as such in much of the myth and literature of the solar cults.

Inside the pyramid is a crypt that contained remains of three individuals with very elaborated offerings, it is believed that they were priest-governors associated to the solar cult.

The spiral motif (i.e. bracelets from Sacosu Mare, Firighiaz (now Firiteaz), Săcueni) is associated with solar cults.

It turns out a group called Manus Domini, a solar cult, murdered Volker to prevent him from releasing the "cursed codex" of the Nag Hammadi.

Sabino Arana interpreted it as a solar symbol, supporting his theory of a Basque solar cult based on wrong etymologies, in the first number of Euzkadi.

Over the years, Stonehenge has inspired a wide range of conjecture, though it is now assumed that this was a place of worship that seemed to be related to solar cults.

Constantine's nephew Julian rejected the "Galilean madness" of his upbringing for an idiosyncratic synthesis of neo-Platonism, Stoic asceticism and universal solar cult.

Erected in east Karnak, the Hwt benben or Mansion of the Benben was devoted to a solar cult, and was closely associated with the Gempaaten.

Perhaps surprisingly then, other, less benevolent themes are also found associated with the solar cult, mainly in the form of the collective delusions of persecution which express themselves as belief in witchcraft.

Some state that Akhenaten created a monotheism while others point out that he merely suppressed a dominant solar cult by the assertion of another, while he never completely abandoned several other traditional deities.

By the end one is left with the feeling that the Exploded Planet Hypothesis is both more immediate and more inclusive than simple star correlations, homogeneous solar cults or trite polytheism/monotheism dualities.

Further, the site seems to lean towards solar worship.

She used three primary elements: Christianity, classicism, and hierophantic solar worship.

This stele is part of the current coat of arms of Cantabria and the meaning of tetraskelion would be related to solar worship.

The hierophantic solar worship is what she brought with her from Africa; the worship of sun gods is expressed as part of her African culture.

The heliocentric form is the most primitive and fits with the earliest known religion, solar worship, including the great heliocentric cult of the Roman period, Mithraism.

It will suffice to note that the Deluge story and its alleged Egyptian origin in solar worship form one of the prominent strands in its composition.

Moreover, it conveniently harmonised with the cult of Mithras which was also prevalent in Rome and the empire at the time, and which also involved solar worship.

I believe," announced Morley, "that the roofless temples of Mu were not all devoted to solar worship, but that many of them were consecrated to the moon.

In modern times, Solar worship, which honours the masculine, has been so eclipsed by feminism, wicca and woman power that man has become emasculated to the point of becoming a eunuch.

Colin Reader has proposed that the Sphinx was probably the focus of solar worship in the Early Dynastic Period, before the Giza Plateau became a necropolis in the Old Kingdom (c. 2686-2134 BC).

The importance of the East (the direction of the rising sun) in orienting and siting Imperial buildings is a form of solar worship found in many ancient cultures, where there is the notion of Ruler being affiliated with the Sun.

In nearby Edessa, worship of Sin, who was also the main deity in Harran, extended back to the beginning of the 1st millennium BCE, and continued until some time in the 4th century CE when solar worship began to predominate.

The canto closes with a passage that sees the return of the goddess as moon and Fortuna together with Greek forms of solar worship and the Flamen Dialis that is intended to integrate gold and silver as attributes of coin and the divine.

Mike and Doug Starn Leo Castelli Gallery 420 West Broadway (near Spring Street) SoHo Through May 7 In their latest photo extravaganzas, which they call spectroheliographs, Mike and Doug Starn evoke rituals of solar worship and astronomical observation.