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[[File:lighterstill.jpg]][[File:The_eye_of_all_ur60.jpg|right|frame]] 85:5.1 The [[worship]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocks rocks], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hills hills], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trees trees], and [[animals]] naturally [[developed]] up through [[fearful]] [[veneration]] of the elements to the deification of the [[sun]], [[moon]], and [[stars]]. In India and elsewhere the stars were regarded as the [[glorified]] [[souls]] of great men who had departed from the life in the [[flesh]]. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaldean Chaldean] star cultists considered themselves to be the [[children]] of the [[sky]] [[father]] and the [[earth]] [[mother]]. 85:5.2 [[Moon]] [[worship]] preceded [[sun]] worship. [[Veneration]] of the moon was at its height during the [[hunting]] era, while [[sun]] worship became the chief [[religious]] [[ceremony]] of the subsequent [[agricultural]] ages. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_deity Solar worship] first took extensive root in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India], and there it [[persisted]] the longest. In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persia Persia] sun veneration gave rise to the later [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraism Mithraic cult]. Among many peoples the sun was regarded as the [[ancestor]] of their kings. The Chaldeans put the sun in the center of "the [[seven]] [[circles]] of the [[universe]]." Later [[civilizations]] honored the sun by giving its name to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday first day of the week]. 85:5.3 The sun god was supposed to be the [[mystic]] [[father]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miraculous_births virgin-born] sons of [[destiny]] who ever and anon were thought to be [[bestowed]] as saviors upon [[favored]] [[races]]. These [[supernatural]] infants were always put adrift upon some [[sacred]] [[river]] to be rescued in an extraordinary [[manner]], after which they would grow up to become [[miraculous]] [[personalities]] and the deliverers of their peoples. <center>[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_85 Go to Paper 85]</center> <center>[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center> [[Category:Paper 85 - The Origins of Worship]] [[Category: Worship]] [[Category: Evolution]] [[Category: Superstition]] [[Category: Anthropology/TeaM]]

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