Sunshine and health / by Ronald Campbell MacFie.

  • Ronald Campbell Macfie
Date:
1927
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Credit: Sunshine and health / by Ronald Campbell MacFie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    From the Andaman Islands to Greenland, from Pekin to Peru, from Polynesia to Scan- dinavia, the sun and heavenly bodies have inspired a thousand myths and adorned a thousand creeds. The Kavirondo worshipped the moon and sun; the Maoris and Fijians had their gods of light and darkness; the Hotten- tots bowed before their god of the red dawn; Amon-Ra and Ra Horakhti, the chief gods of the Egyptians, were sun gods; and worship of the sun was the basis of the high mono- theistic religion founded by the great heretic King, Akhnaton. The Taoists and Zoroastrians have always deified light. Every Buddha is believed to be able to illuminate the universe by means of a circlet of hairs between his brows. Helios and Phoebus-Apolio, Ormuzd, Mithra, Anatarenon, Baal, Astarte, and Lug, all are creations of a solar mythology. As representative of the best in solar religions may be taken Akhnaton’s hymn to the Sun. Thy dawning is beautiful in the horizon of the heaven, O living Aton, Beginning of life ! When Thou risest in the eastern horizon of heaven Thou fillest every land with Thy beauty; For Thou art beautiful, great, glittering, high over the earth,