Forlong - Rivers of Life

Sun Worship.
One,” and the Ta-alah or “Highest One,” who with Herodotus was Ouro-tala or
Orotalt, “the Most High or Supreme Light.” The Aerm-hasde ydsh rwa or “Beneficient
Light” of Kaldi, became with Persians Oro-Mazdes, and afterwards Mithras, as
coming, say some writers, from Mithras, “Plenty,” or Mater, “Rain,” 1 which is merely
Jupiter Pluvius, a most likely Deity for the dwellers on the dry and steep lands of Persia
to worship. A word here as to the titles of the Female Energy.
The Ruach, Breath, or Holy Spirit—Christian “Holy Ghost”—with most early
peoples was female—“the Queen of Heaven,” after whom the Elohim of Genesis made
Eve or the Nekabah. 2 It is only through the accidents of language that Europe now
considers this very important Spirit or Person in all Trinities to be male. She was
the Spouse, the Dove, the Love of God, the Protogonos, the Hebrew Memra-Daya,
the Kun or Kiun, She-Kunah or Shekinah, “a Rose on a prolific stem,” the Zoroastrian
Minok-hired or Maiyu-Khratu, “Divine Wisdom,” and hence Athene or Minerva.
China calls her Kun-wyn “the Goddess of Mercy,” Astrakan, “a Maid,” and Virgo of the
Zodiac with an ear of corn and a lovely babe. She is Isis the Ancient and Nutrix
Nostra, “the Nurse of Man and All Existence.” With the Greeks she was often Eros,
the “Divine and Creating Love of God,” but oftener Ceres mammosa, the “All-Fruitful.”
She was the “light imperceptible to human sense,” which the Hindoo Pooránas
dilate upon; the “Holy Mother” of Pindar, and she whom Plato called Appuleises, “the
Italian sower,” whose hollow statues they filled with oil. 3 She was called Juno, Bellona,
Hekate, Kammisia, and a thousand other names. The Indian and Egyptian typified
her in many animals, especially the Cow, and now seldom by merely the female organ
of these. The Calf was her son in Egypt, and with the wondering Edumians, who
loved Horus, and symbolized him as a Bet-El.
Phrygians called her Pessimuntri or Mother of the Gods
Atik aborigines ,, The Kekropian Minerva.
Cyprians ,, ,, Paphian Venus.
Cretans ,, ,, Diana Diktunna.
Sicilians ,, ,, Stygian Proserpine.
Eleusinians ,, ,, Goddess Ceres.
She was the Mundane Egg which the Bull or Male Spirit broke, the Ocean, the
Ark-boat, the Navis or Womb of Creation, whose names and forms are infinite. She
is often the Moon, occasionally “Darkness;” and Vishnoo or the Sun, we are told, hid
himself in her, as did O-Annes in the ocean; but we must pass on.
Even Christianity teaches that God is a light, like unto the sun, which no man
can look upon from its intensity, and this the Israelites and their leaders taught. God,
says Paul, manifested himself to him as “a great light shining from heaven;” and he
“could not see,” he says, “for the glory of the light.” In the same way, Christ, like
Horus, is called “the brightness of his Father’s glory,” and even the Holy Ghost appears
1 Letters on Mythology. Lon. 1748, p. 272.
2 Gen. i. 2 and 27, but see the original Hebrew, and the root signification.
3 See Fig. 22, p. 72, for the Indian Māmojee.
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