solar religion

Most of them have reverted to moon worship and pagan practices that are contrary to solar religions.

It seems that Commodus favoured the eastern solar religions, of which Christianity was one.

She argues that after the Spanish Conquest, the Spaniards tried to suppress cultivation of the sunflower because of its association with solar religion and warfare.

He saw it as one of the solar religions of the empire, but studied it a lot in the last ten years of his life and even preached sermons.

Although similar to hymns to Amun, the Hymn to Aten reflects the originality of Akhenaten's simplistic perception of his solar religion.

In the 19th century, the Basque nationalist activist Sabino Arana posited an original root euzko which, he thought, came from eguzkiko ("of the sun", related to the assumption of an original solar religion).

Any solar religion or solar symbolism were not yet established in any useful form and it is now thought that king Nebra might actually have been the first king who adopted extended religious thought about the sun and the sky.

The religion approved by Constantine the Great, so called by Christians, was not the Christianity of Jesus or even Paul but a syncretistic religion combining the various solar religions of the Empire under the name of Christianity.