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The Worship of the Sun in general

The worship of the Sun not so widely diffused as is commonly supposed.

A. Bastian on the rarity of Sun-worship.

Sun-worship in ancient Egypt, Mexico, and Peru.

As one of the most conspicuous and powerful objects in the physical world the sun has naturally attracted the attention and obtained the homage of many races, who have personified and worshipped it as a god. Yet the worship of the sun has been by no means so widely diffused among primitive peoples as, on purely abstract grounds, we might at first sight be tempted to suppose. If we were to draw a map of the world showing in colour the regions where sun-worship is known to have prevailed, we might be surprised at the many large blanks in the chart, blanks which would probably be particularly numerous and extensive in countries occupied by the most backward races. In Africa, for example, while sun-worship was a most important element in the religion of ancient Egypt, it is on the whole conspicuously absent among the black races of that continent, though we have noted some evidence of its occurrence in many tribes of Northern Nigeria and in certain tribes of East Africa.1 The same paucity of sun-worship, or at all events of any trustworthy evidence of its existence, is characteristic of the indigenous Australian, Melanesian,2 Polynesian,3 and Micronesian races, who together occupy a considerable portion of the globe. On the limited diffusion of this form of religion in the world the most learned and far-travelled of ethnologists, Adolf Bastian,

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