SOLAR CHILDREN
Right and wrong are per se right and wrong. The same is true about falsehood and truth. However, sometimes they are undergoing so ambiguity that one cannot be known from the other. Given that, falsehood is celebrated as a precious traditional legacy, strengthening in the passage of time so much so that whose eradication needs tremendous time and efforts, and whose exposure an immense task. This situation arises when people are committing themselves to something, which, although wrong, is assimilated into the mainstream with alarming speed as time passes by. Thus, it becomes a part of their culture, and so wrong transforms into right. Once it becomes a cultural manifestation, it spreads out as right, and sometimes it becomes so phenomenal that for which sacrifices are made, lives are put in stake, a whole new tradition is created, and falsehood hovers over the multitudes. In the course of history, these traditions have become so time-honored that wrongs have been taken for granted as truths. To make my point clear, let’s cite the sun as an example. The sun was regarded as a deity. It was attributed with light, wisdom, goodness, justice, power, beauty, and so on.
Going through plenty of changes, the sun god was attributed with a lot of characteristics, kin, attributes, and denominations. The sun was celebrated as god. Ra was the most famous sun god of the ancient Egyptian. It was the king or father of all other Egyptian gods. There is a popular myth that it was swallowed by the sky goddess Nut in the night, and was being reborn in the morning. It was also believed that it was travelling through the underworld at night. In the form of art, Ra was the head of the falcon, and upon its head was resting the sun disk inside a cobra. The sun god was often shown in human form with a hawk head or a golden disk with a serpent, on its head a crown, on its left hand a scepter, and on its right hand an ankh. The ankh was the symbol of life in the ancient Egyptian. Out of the sun god came Ra and Atum (or Ra-Atum). Out of sun god Atum came his children Shu and Tefnut; then their children Geb and Nut; and their children Osiris, Seth, Nephthys, and Isis. Egyptian pharaohs named themselves gods, after the sun gods.
Babylonian tradition had “Shamash” (in Persian language, “shams” means sun) as its sun god, which was associated with justice. It inspired Babylonian king Hammurabi to codify laws into Hammurabi’s code.
Babylonians worshiped the sun, and so did other pagan religions. The first of the week was given to the worship of the sun in the calendar of the ancients.
These mythologies have been so influential that they have been recounted by the poets and playwrights.
In the beginning, people started to warship shiny object like sun, moon, and stars. Then they worshiped frightening phenomena such as thunder and lightening. Then they worshiped the beneficial things such as rain, rivers, streams, trees, and a multitude of other things. Meanwhile idol worshiping, animal worshiping, and ghost worshiping were rampant.
Sun worship is an example out of a multitude of falsities that has corrupted the earth. How can the sun be a god? How can the sun give birth? How can it create a pedigree? This unthinkable desire resembles that of mine: when I was a child, I wished to grab one of the stars to play with, and so the sun worshippers have spread out the myth of their marriage with the sun, and having solar children!
Thus, falsehood disseminated, and as the time forges ahead, falsehood strengthens. Falsehood and ignorance walks hand in hand. In fact, truth exposes falsehood. Isn’t it absurd that instead of worshiping the Almighty Creator one should worship an object which, created and subdued by God to serve the interest of humanity, has no tongue to speak or to taste, no ears to listen, no sense of touch to feel cold or hot, to eyes to see, no nose to smell, no mind to think, no spirit to enjoy a living life?