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The sun was the most powerful astrological body in the ancient world and was worshipped as the image of God in almost every nation, especially in ancient Greece.
In antiquity, the sun-god was represented as the driver of a fiery chariot who wore a crown of thorns or fiery rays. The chariot was the sun which was pulled through the sky above the clouds by four horses that represented the four seasons.
In Greek mythology, Hyperion was the Titan of light, the father of the sun, the moon, and the dawn, and Helios was his son.
Helios was depicted as a youth with a halo wearing a billowing white cloak. In early Christian art, Jesus was sometimes represented as an incarnation of Helios such as in a fresco in the necropolis beneath St. Peter's in Rome.
Metaphors of Helios, the Sun
Many different cultures had Sun-Gods. For the Greeks he was named Apollo, Zeus, or Helios, for the Egyptians he was Horus, for the Romans he was Sol Invicus, for the Phonecians he was Baal, for the Persians he was Mithra, for the first Christians he was personified as Jesus, the Christ. The following metaphors are characteristics and attributes of the "Sun" of God:
- The sun (like the above drawing) wears a crown of thorns or a halo.
- The sun "walks on water" when it rises or sets on a body of water
- The sun's "followers" or "disciples" are the 12 months and the 12 signs of the Zodiac, through which the sun passes.
- The sun is "crucified," when it passes through the spring and fall equinoxes, the vernal equinox being Easter, at which time it is resurrected.
- The long stem cross represented the staff of Apollo long before the time of Jesus
- Dec 25th is the winter solstice and birth of the sun.
The early Christian Church eagerly promoted Jesus-Helios-Sol sun symbolism to appease the Roman emperor Constantine who was the high priest of Sol Invictus all through his reign. The sun symbolism continues to the present day on robes, banners, icons, behind the cross in a ray of light, flames coming from the heart of Jesus, etc. Priests even bow and kiss a monstrance which is a gold statue of the sun on a pedestal during processions.
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Images of jesus in greek churches...
Greek Orthodox Christian priests and worshipers gather for a mass at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, West Bank...
What is the centrepiece in that scene.
could be a representation of troll face too though, why not.
