Has anyone ever considered this possibility?

Question

well if you think about it, the sun (a star) is what gives us life in more then one way.... the sun we have now gives us the stuff we need to live day to day... but without a star forming the heavier elements and going supernova we wouldn't exist, so in a way it also gave us birth to begin with...

anyone ever considered that some way some how ancient humans knew this and that's where sun worship originated?

yes i know it's far fetched, but stranger things have happened.

Answer 1

you'll never know, but quite plausible.

Answer 2

I am not aware of any mythologies like this, but I'm am sure there has to be at least one on Earth that says their sun god created the Earth. If it is true than it would have just been some made up mythology and not based on any scientific fact. They would have had no way to discern all the heavier elements in the universe were created through the fusion reactions in the center of a star unless you believe in supernatural powers. I bet farmer Joe in 10,000 BC worshiped the sun because he saw that the sun made his crops grow... not because he had a degree in astrophysics.

Answer 3

Even the Greeks thought of the elements as Earth, Fire, Water and Aether.  Everything else could be made from these.  And, these are things that you need to live.  One expects that level of story for the ancients, or less.

And yet, if you've ever tried to transmute lead into gold, you might get the idea that there's more to it, without knowing what, exactly.

Answer 4

No. In terms of the human timeline, we discovered atoms and all that stuff very recently.

People worshipped the sun because it is a celestial body. It is always there in the sky and people thought it was a god.

Answer 5

it's far-fetched to the point of total implausibility.

since no ancient civilizations understood atoms, no ancient civilization could have any concept of nucleosynthesis.

Answer 6

I'm just thinking that they probably worshiped the sun due to the fact that it was a gigantic hot ball of light in the air that they couldn't explain.

Answer 7

That's an interesting theory, but not quite likely.  I doubt ancient humans could know about supernova and the life cycle of stars.  I mean, they could know about supernova, but to them it would just be a big light in the night sky, whereas to us it's a star exploding.  They worshipped the sun because they knew it gave them warmth and helped plants to grow.  At least, that's what I think.

Answer 8

You would have to answer the question about how the ancients could have known about modern astronomy.

Not very likely.

HTH

Charles

Answer 9

Some cultures understood that the sun was the source of all power and life, but the concept of atoms being born in the hearts of stars and that supernova are responsible for all elements higher than iron has only been made in the last 50 years.  No ancient culture ever developed such a concept, nor could it have.  Science is cumulative.  It evolves slowly.

Answer 10

This spiritual matrix is older than you know...

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http://www.ufoencounters.co.uk/images/72...

http://www.maya12-21-2012.com/tabletux1....

http://www.dudeman.net/siriusly/ufo/art/...

http://amazingscott.files.wordpress.com/...

http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/barad...

http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_12.ht...

http://www.rense.com/general3/foss.htm

http://ancientamerican.com/article28p1.h...

http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_4.htm

http://www.mystae.com/streams/science/ru...