Avatars Of The Sun

The clip has its failings, including some pretty atrocious etymology, (“sunset” is the opposite of sunrise – it has nothing to do with Set! Not to mention the whole “Horus”, “hours” commentary) and it contains more than one embellishment about the similarities between Horus, Krishna, Christ and other avatars. But it does accurately illustrate the astronomical origins of this brand of spirituality.

Interestingly, although our modern manifestation of the holidays is narrowly understood to be “real” or permanent or even “true”, the reality is that throughout the past 30,000 (yes - thirty thousand) years, people in the northern hemisphere have had a strikingly characteristic tendency with respect to this time of year. To a culture, indeed to a town, they deify the Sun and during this time of year create an anthropomorphized avatar for the Sun to be among us for a while and normally have some entirely moral consequence – usually rejuvenating – for our species in general.

These winter holidays signify the start of a struggle that only is truly completed with the avatar’s exaltation and transmutation into the Heaven from which he came. This takes place only once the Sun, in its proper astronomical glory, manages to become more powerful than its symbolic opposite “darkness” – in truth just a lack of sunlight. On December 25th each year the Sun begins to inch back, slowly giving longer daylight as the year progresses. On Easter, the Sun is victorious.

Interestingly, the anthropomorphized aspects of the Sun’s changes as viewed from Earth (actually representing simultaneous celestial mechanics involving the Earth, Sun and stars), do not rest solely on the man – the avatar.