Show sun long worshiped in egypt and india since nothing was known of the rotation 0 the earth in the days of long one can pally imagine how very ago mysterious me movement of real yet the eun must have seemed and how naturally it was an object of wonder reverence the suns dally jour and its contest with the darkness and ney its dual victory at the dawn of lie neway are ideas which hae led to endless stories ra the great sun god of the egyptians was thought to in a ship the waters of the sky by day across and return during the night through the kingdom of the dead this god was always represented either as a hawk or as a man with a hawk s head in accordance with the belief thit th h a iao in india the sun was worshiped as the god agal who rode in a shining chariot drawn by blood red horses in ancient bindu art this golden haired god was portrayed as having a douba face seven tongues and seven arnn the number seven was held sacred bv the hindus and was thus employed to symbolize the numerous and varied duties performed by agal |