Sungod

But he could not save them from disaster, hard as he strove–the recklessness of their own ways destroyed them all,the blind fools, they devoured the cattle of the Sun and the Sungod wiped from sight the day of their return.

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Of all the ancient divinities perhaps Hercules is the one whose rôle as a Sungod is most generally admitted.

Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

In a certain well-known Mithra-sculpture or group, the Sungod is represented as plunging his dagger into a bull, while a scorpion, a serpent, and other animals are sucking the latter's blood.

Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

It is the astronomical location of the triumph of the Sungod and of the arrival of Spring.

Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

Hercules also as a Sungod compares curiously with Samson (mentioned above, ii, p. 27), but we need not dwell on all the elaborate analogies that have been traced18 between these two heroes.

Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

It should not be forgotten too that even as a child in the cradle Hercules slew two serpents sent for his destruction -- the serpent and the scorpion as autumnal constellations figuring always as enemies of the Sungod -- to which may be compared the power given to his disciples by Jesus17 ` ` to tread on serpents and scorpions. ''

Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

The Bull in heaven -- the symbol of the triumphant Sungod -- and the earthly bull, sacrificed for the good of humanity were one and the same; the god, in fact, sacrificed himself or his representative.

Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

Many people think that the association of the Lamb-god with the Cross arose from the fact that the constellation Aries at that time was on the heavenly cross (the crossways of the Ecliptic and Equator-see diagram, ch. iii, p. 39 supra), and in the very place through which the Sungod had to pass just before his final triumph.

Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

THE Vernal Equinox has all over the ancient world, and from the earliest times, been a period of rejoicing and of festivals in honor of the Sungod.

Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

The triumph of the Sungod was therefore, and quite naturally, ascribed to the influence of Aries.

Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920