Folklore
For centuries,
humans have attempted to explain the Sun in phrases in their personal worldviews.
The Sun can be a god, a demon, a mischievous spirit, an all-powerful
writer or a ruthless taker of existence. Whatever function it performs, most
cultures have recognized the importance of the Sun as top controller
of all lifestyles on Earth.
As you study
those, consider they were not testimonies created to entertain, nor
were they written for children. These myths, legends and accounts
represent their subculture’s worldview, a peoples’ try and explain,
recognize, and are available to grips with nature’s phenomena. To the humans
who inform them, these reviews are as applicable and proper, as deeply
significant and spiritually important, as any medical causes.
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Indigenous AmericanNorth
American
Why
There is Day and Night
(As informed through Lynn Moroney)
Raven
and the Sun
Three-legged
Rabbit
Coyote
and Eagle Steal the Sun and Moon
Boy
and the Sun
Sun
and Her Daughter
Spider
and the Sun
Little
Brother Snares the Sun
One
Who Walks all Over the Sky
Fifth
World
Tsohanoai,
the Navaho Sun God
For
extra Indigenous American starlore, see Starlore
of Native America.
Mezo
& South American
Huitzilopochtli
(Aztec)
Inti
(Incan)
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Indigenous Australian / Aborigine
No one is aware of
what the earliest human beings concept about the sky, for no information exist.
However, the cultures of the Australian Aborigines, which have been
passed down via legends, songs, and dances for greater than forty,000
years, deliver us a glimpse of how these earliest known astronomers
can also have interpreted the Sun and stars.
The Indigenous
human beings of Australia, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders,
represent the sector’s oldest and most long-lived cultures,
a heritage
rich in expertise and perception.
Before European intrusion, indigenous peoples inhabited maximum
areas of the Australian continent.
With extra than 700 separate languages, one of a kind life, and
religious and cultural traditions in distinct areas, those adaptable and creative
peoples had complicated social systems with enormously developed traditions
reflecting their deep reference to the land and surroundings.
Their view of the SOLAR cosmos is based on their
concept of the Dreaming — a distance past when the Spirit Ancestors
created the sector. Aboriginal songs, dances, and memories convey how,
lengthy ago, the Spirit Ancestors created the natural international and entwined
the people right into a near interrelationship with nature and the sky.
For extra statistics see the Australian Museum’s internet site
Indigenous Australia.
Indigenous views on the Sun and Moon.
This file is a part of the South Australian authorities SOLAR Department of Education’s
Aboriginal Education Unit. It incorporates a few Dreaming tales, with the state and
location protected, as well as realistic sports that can be used in
a primary classroom.
An Aborigines View of the Sun
Australian Aborigine Creation Myth
Story of the Aboriginal Flag and its Sun symbol
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Mesopotamia
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Judeo-Christian
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Other Cultures
Ancient Egypt
Horus
African Cultures
Liza
China
Ten
Suns
Classical
Greece and Rome
Apollo
Phaethon
Drives the Sun Chariot
Apollo
and the Cygnus Constellation
Helios
Apollo
Brings Life-giving Heat
Inuit (Greenland)
Malina
Japan
Amaterasu
Norse
Freyr
Freyr,
the God of Sun and Rain
Polynesia/Hawaii
Maui Captures the Sun
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Great
Quotes”The
Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a bit larger than Greece.”
–Anaxagoras 434 BC
“Turn
your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.”
–Maori proverb
“The Universe is populated by means of innumerable suns, innumerable
earths,
and perhaps, innumerable types of lifestyles. That idea expresses
the
essence of the Copernican revolution. No revelation more
striking has
ever come from the scientific mind.” –Robert Jastrow
1989
“To the fine of our knowledge, our Sun is the only
star demonstrated to grow
greens.” –Philip Scherrer 1973
“The purpose of existence is the research of the
Sun, the Moon, and the
heavens.” –Anaxagoras 459 BC
“The cosmos is all there’s, all there ever turned into,
and all there ever
could be.” –Carl Sagan
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Credits:
The
raven photograph on some of the Native American folklore
pages is sincerely a head-dress. The body is leather
(or some kind of cloth) and serves as a hat. The
wings fold down over the wearer’s ears, and the tail
folds returned over one’s neck. The beak protrudes from
one’s forehead. The artifact changed into produced by using the Haida
tribe of the Pacific Northwest. It is owned by using the
Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural
History, Smithsonian Institutes. Washington D.C. The
photographer is Don Eiler. The source for this information
is: “Native American Arts and Crafts.” Colin
F. Taylor Ph.D et al. Salamander Books Ltd. 1995.
London, web page 98.
Newgrange
photo from knowth.com, a certified accomplice of
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