Sun lore of all ages; a collection of myths and legends concerning the sun and its worship (1914)
Olcott, William Tyler, 1873-1936 · New York London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 362
d surmounted by a globeor disk of the sun from which an asp issued, andthe hawk was particularly known as the type of thesun, worshipped at Heliopolis as the sacred bird,and the representative of the deity of the place. The winged disk was likewise a solar symbol,and highly regarded by the ancient… … The Gateway of Ptolemy, Karnak Symbolic Forms of the Sun 293 temple walls and over the doorway of numerousdwellings in Egypt. Porphyry says the hawk was dedicated to thesun, being the symbol of light and spirit, becauseof the quickness of its motion, and its ascent to thehigher regions of the air.…
Sun worship · Mythology
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