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Sun, our Lord (1)

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12 Assyrian Identity
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery




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sun
Zeus
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Byzantine Empire 		Channel
Syriac texts

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The Bēl-Zeus of Edessa had solar characteristics (1)

Acts of the Edessene martyrs Shmona and Gurya:
Because thus have the Emperors commanded me: — “He who will not do our will, and do obeisance to the Sun, our Lord, this sun he shall not see.” Shmona answered and said: “Thou knowest that all 15 men are the sons of Adam and are formed from the earth, and there is decreed for them by the Lord of the Sun the death of nature: how then can men be called Lords of the Sun, or the Sun be called Lord, which is a thing made like them and grows dark and fades at the end like them?”

Source (list of abbreviations)
Acts of the Edessene martyrs Shmona and Gurya

Bibliography

Burkitt 1913, 102Burkitt, Francis C. Euphemia and the Goth. With the Acts of Martyrdom of the Confessors of Edessa. Works issued by the Text and Translation Society 8. London: Williams and Norgate, 1913.
Tubach 1986, 71-73Tubach, J. Im Schatten des Sonnengottes. Der Sonnenkultus in Edessa, Harran und Hatra am Vorabend der christlichen Mission. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1986.

Amar Annus


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