Discuss the extent to which cultures around the world have worshiped the sun as a deity throughout history. why do you think our star inspires such widespread veneration?
2006-12-07 09:19:06 · 5 answers · asked by AAA 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
the sun, seen as a super natural by many culutres ancient and current!!! its in the sky it glows it gives life-heat etc... it is a visible verson of what gods do.... all cultures fom hellinstic to eastern and mayan to aztec and incan have worshipped the sun everyone of them in some way had 1 or more gods described as the sun caring it or it being something they provided...
2006-12-07 09:28:01 · answer #1 · answered by jason.gmathews 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sun is the giver of life. If it disappeared today, within 6 months everything would be dead.
2006-12-07 17:22:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL>>>Maybe they thought that it was casing them...lol thus protecting them like a guide...the energy that comes from the sun like the moon is great thus maybe they believed it had spiritual meaning to men...
2006-12-07 17:30:15 · answer #3 · answered by ChIkaBuEnA 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Due to their lack of knowledge of the solar system, deifying the sun seemed logical to them.
2006-12-07 17:21:08 · answer #4 · answered by //// 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Simple! All life as our ancestors knew it depended on the sun.QED
2006-12-07 17:22:15 · answer #5 · answered by Maid Angela 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋