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Bhāgavatism and Sun-Worship

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1931
In his article on The Nārāyaṇīya and the Bhāgavatas published in the Indian Antiquary, September, 1908, Grierson put forward a somewhat remarkable hypothesis (pp. 253–4) of the solar origin of Bhāgavatism. The view does not appear to have attracted much notice from scholars competent to pronounce an opinion on the subject; but it has neither been ...
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Discussion about Sun Worship from Sanxingdui Bronze Sacred Tree

Advances in Education, Humanities and Social Science Research, 2023
Based on the relationship between Sanxingdui bronze sacred tree and sun worship, this paper explores the relationship between sun worship and bird worship, and interprets the origin of ancient ancestors' original belief. This paper expounds the author's thoughts and opinions on the significance of archaeology by analyzing the ancient human belief in ...
Jingyi Chu, Min Pan
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Tradition of Sun Worship in Kashmir

2020
The identification of Sun with the supreme consciousness has been a phenomenon throughout the Indian tradition. This identification has concretized in the Ādityahṛdayam, from Vālmīki's Rāmāyaṇa. Meditation on the Sun in heart and reciting this stotra enables one to conquer all enemies, external as well as internal.
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Sun worship can kill common sense

British Journal of Nursing, 2009
It’s here again, the entirely predictable annual health risk that we Britons seem powerless to do anything about – the summer heatwave. Like the occasional snowstorms that paralyse our roads and cities, or the devastating floods that poured so much misery on middle England in 2007, we often know that adverse weather is on the horizon but remain ...
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AAD Wants to Convert Sun Worshipers

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1997
Persuade the Young People The AAD estimates that about 40 300 new cases of malignant melanoma will occur this year, a 12% increase over last year, and that about 7300 deaths in 1997 will be attributable to this most devastating form of skin cancer. That's why more than 300 PHOEBUS APOLLO is far from popular with the American Academy of Dermatology ...
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The scent of sun worship: basking experience alters scent mark composition in male lizards

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2014
Signals used in female choice should honestly advertise the benefits that males can provide, with direct benefits often argued as being more important than indirect benefits. However, the nature of direct benefits in species without paternal care or nuptial gifts is poorly understood.
Robert J. P. Heathcote   +4 more
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The concept of Sun-worship in the Bhāgavatapurāṇa

2018
The sun, who is the king of all the planets, full of infinite effulgence, the image of the good soul, is as the eye of this world. I adore the primeval Lord Govinda in pursuance of whose order the sun performs his journey mounting the wheel of time.
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Sun Worship in the Early Modern English Colonial Imagination

Huntington Library Quarterly
abstract: This article presents a decolonial analysis of the figure of the Indigenous sun worshipper in early modern literature. Drawing on a wide range of ethnographic sources, I show how the sun worshipper emerges as a privileged figure in discussions of Native religious practices.
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Sun-Worship and the Idolatry of Images: Derek Jarman, Philip Glass, and The Swimming-Pool Library

2014
The thematic trajectory of The Swimming-Pool Library is outlined in an early scene in which William Beckwith first visits the elderly aristocrat Charles Nantwich at his home on Skinner’s Lane, not far from St Paul’s.1 The well-heeled gentility of Will’s afternoon call makes a pointed contrast to the very different social context in which these two men ...
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