The Winter Sun

The Sun at 12:00PM From Chardon, Ohio Every Week

The GIF above was created using Stellarium by saving one image every week through a year. The apparent figure 8 path of the sun is described by a figure called the Analemma.

Analemma Graphs

I'm currently meditating on the idea of two sun gods--the winter sun (the sun at the Winter Solstice) and the summer sun. A simplistic reading of Christianity is it's the triumph of the Winter Sun God cult. Where'd the summer sun gods go? Where's Ra? Some scholars argue that Yahweh's the equivalent of a summer sun deity. See " The Departure of the Glory of Yahweh" (link).

As Christianity rose, it wiped out the cult of Ra in Egypt. Or maybe the sky gods become the despotic secular powers in the A.D. world? Anyway, new topic, just scratching the surface here.