Per the OP, there was definitely a Sun worship theme for religion. Constantine even combined Sun Worship with Jesus that attempt to settle down the battles between the two.

As far as man's early development, Cooper appears to leave off the need for fire in the early culture for man. Fire was a weapon and a protection against the Beasts for early man. Lions and Tigers feared fire, and early man always had to keep the fire alive, feed it, tend to it, for the sake of his own security. It also cooked his meats, made them last longer, and flavored them. Cooking meats, due to the fats, was like gasoline to the fire and made it grow stronger.

So, early man depended upon fire for security from the beasts. There was the Lion as the king of the beasts that was most feared by man, so some of the Sun signs or signs for fire appeard as Lions holding up the symbol. Since the bull could take the Lion in battle, some of the Sun signs were held by Bull's horns.

It is this cross association between the fire that early man required for security from the beasts and the fire in the sky that set up issues for god as protectors of man.

One can find in early cultures, like Sumeria, that Lions hold up the Sun upon their back, as a statement that Fire Conquors Lions, the King of the Beasts. Move to Egypt and the Bull holds up the Sun symbol.

Those same early human relatives that learned to shape flint into scrapers for cutting skin and making animal hide clothes all worshiped fire and had to keep one burning constantly. Somewhere along the way, after they killed a few beasts with fire, they got hungry and noticed the cooked meat from the beasts taste good. Thus were the beginnings of early man in fire, protections from beasts, and processing animal meat with fire.

Then came flint tipped spears, hunters, then arrows. Then little wars. Then walls, then moats, and larger cities.

Then issues of the Lions of Judah in Egypt. Things propped up on Lion symbols were Kings, as above the King of the Beasts. Some Kings acquired god status, that were more than human in Sumeria.


The symbol for Jerusalem was two Lions claws that shaped into a crescent moon shape with a star in the middle, which is a Sun worship related thing for the temple of Solomon. They still had the fire for animal sacafice and symbol of man's dominion over the beasts. The temple was solid gold on the East side and met those in front with the heat of the rising Sun that blinded them almost.

Inside a gold room with a special weapon from nature that freed those that came from Sumeria gods, which was the secret of Moses, kept by David, worshiped in Solomon's temple. It was not fire itself, but derived from the fires of volcanos, but this one took down the beasts of man, the tyrants of humanity. The Lion of Judah was the secrets of the Ark, a special weapon against Pharohs, tyrants of men, and the inner secret of religion for the tribe of Judah.

It all came from fire and fear of beasts, animal and human.


Then Jesus and the Essene come along and they have studied these progressions of religion. They didn't like the animal sacafice, didn't like the Babylon issues of Nimrod nor the Pharisee games, and they had a new plan for the Egyptian therapute and the alchemical knowledge. They were into the healing of humanity, good stewardship toward all. Issues of good food, aka Lord's Supper, and clean mineral water from the Spring of Gihon were the bigger issues to support. And knowing why the temple faced East and the Lands of Sumeria, where man's genetics were affected via what the ancients called gods, elohim, etc.

The ultimate symbol for David was Fire and Water, two triangles, one upon the other, which was the essence of his temple's imagery. It was a monument to many of the highest elements in Egypt's temples, pyramids, spinx, and a miniature desert version of all that came before from Ur/Eridu, Babylon, Egypt, and now this Star of David and the City of David and its little monument to history derived from Sumeria's gods.

Some of the other issues of human civilization development that Cooper leaves out, is these issues of "Mother Nature." Some of the earliest of cultures had something called goddess worship, but this more correctly put would be more akin to worship of mother nature.

All the Mother Nature theme goddess icons have the goddess around two lions or other big cats, and the meaning was simple that she was supported by the King of the Beasts or reigned over them.

Such stories connected to the lands of milk and honey and the Mother Nature providing for her children.


What is important is all these stories for Mother Nature or gods involved the symbolism of the great cats, mostly lions, as supporting a higher deity, be it the Sun or Mother Nature symbols. The issues of Mother Nature and the Sun being the provider or god was often co-joined in the oldest of cultures as man progressed beyond hunter gathers. The Sun god was mostly Babylon and Egypt (these used Lion and Bull symbols), and cultures much earlier were Mother Nature (this used Lion symbol highly).


So, when one is in search of what is mean't by the term for the "Beast of Revelation", one pays attention to all the King of the Beasts symbolism. There are seven elements for gods such defined, each a part of these old symbolisms. One eventually finds the Lion of Judah and the King David line, and that family shield or crest always has the symbolic Lion.

Thus, the religion of Judiah is closely associated with the issue for the Beasts of Armageddon (one of the elements or heads), and the Lion symbols derived from the earliests of worship for a deity, be the deity that of the goddess/mother nature or that for the Sun/Ra and such. The origination of the Beast for Sun worship was Nimrod and Babylon and the Semiramis story that played herself off as goddess to an extent.


In finding the symbols of the Beasts, one has to understand this long line of the "King of the Beasts" being symbolic for Kings/Pharos and for designation of deity or gods.

Once one makes these associations, then the Spinx begins to make sense, the Lion of Judah / David makes sense, and the transitions from Egypt to Temple symbolism connects, and going back to the earliest of cultures makes sense symbolically. One can follow the progression of human thinking on god from mother nature, to sun gods, to early experimenters in human DNA breeding, to the elements of Jesus want for a change.

I am amazed how most still cannot make the connection between Jesus and the sun. Christianity is nothing more than an old age sun-worshiping cult dressed up in fancy words.

John 8:12

When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.

This quote screams sun, yet so many are trapped within the dogma of hell and the consequences that it brings that they simply refuse to see the obvious. They think that if they even consider the idea that Jesus is a metaphor for the sun that they will lose their soul and be banished to eternal suffering and damnation.

It's so painfully obvious, yet some still cannot see it. They read it literally but not contextually, you need both in order to see the hidden meaning.

Good thread, S&F.

Originally posted by MagnumOpus
Per the OP, there was definitely a Sun worship theme for religion. Constantine even combined Sun Worship with Jesus that attempt to settle down the battles between the two.

Boy, if there's ever a challenger to God for the power of omnipotence, it's gotta be Constantine. I've seen him credited with doing almost everything

Combining sun worship with Jesus? No.

If you don't take the time to study and understand the Jewish religion, you will never understand Christianity and continue to make nonsensical statements about it, like this. Christianity has the same basis as Judaism, the only difference is that people are reconciled to God through Christ, rather than through the Law.

To that end Judaism and Christianity are explicitly opposed to any notion that God is an object. Saying that God (or, by extension, Christ,) is the sun is as absurd as saying that a vase a potter makes is the potter. Claiming that Christianity is relabeled sun worship is completely contrary to Christian theology, history and teaching, and is without any reasonable basis, apart from haters just wanting it to be true.