sun-worship

(I see them less as a shameful display of careless sun-worship and more of a comparative tool to see how brown I really am.)

…tan lines and telling your parents « Sven’s guide to… 2005

“Why must you perform this barbaric sun-worship nonsense?” he said, pacing.

DIAMOND DUST by David Walton | Fiction | Futurismic 2005

This early and very general prevalence of the sentiment of sun-worship is worthy of especial attention on account of the influence that it exercised over the spurious Freemasonry of antiquity, of which I am soon to speak, and which is still felt, although modified and Christianized in our modern system.

The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey

These were used for astronomical observations and for sun-worship.

The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria W. Scott-Elliot

Perfectly to understand this symbol, I must refer, as a preliminary matter, to the worship of the _Phallus_, a peculiar modification of sun-worship, which prevailed to a great extent among the nations of antiquity.

The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey

And so, then, here again we have in Masonry that old and often-repeated allusion to sun-worship, which has already been seen in the officers of a lodge, and in the point within a circle.

The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey

They appear to be connected with Semitic sun-worship, and are assigned by Bent to the same period as the temple at Baalbek, though some antiquarians would place them much earlier; the representation of a castle in a single stone seems to bear some relation to the idea worked out in the monolith churches of Lalibela described by Raffray.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

In the great Toltec empire of Mexico the sun-worship of their forefathers was still the national religion, while the bloodless offerings to their beneficent Deity, Quetzalcoatl, consisted merely of flowers and fruit.

The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria W. Scott-Elliot

This arc is found with peculiar appropriateness upon a gold coin, since it is a symbol of the old sun-worship, or of Apollo, under whose auspices gold coins were originally issued.

The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886 Various

But Sabianism, while it was the most ancient of the religious corruptions, was, I have said, also the most generally diffused; and hence, even among nations which afterwards adopted the polytheistic creed of deified men and factitious gods, this ancient sun-worship is seen to be continually exerting its influences.

The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey