Up above the sky, the gods, the angels, and many stories

We always looked up and wondered about the sky, the ocean above us. We wandered a lot, also made many stories. Many thousand years ago, we did the same. In the open sky, we saw many patterns, and we believed some of them controlled the life below the earth. We called them gods. Among the many stars, a few were very bright and did not follow the usual starry movements. The word "planet" was not there, and we called them gods. They were the seven Gods.

Ancient people believed the god Marduk(Jupiter)'s movement caused the flood in the Euphrates river. Similarly, the other gods were associated with many earthly seasonal events. These gods and their stories evolved along with humanity and their journies.

The number seven was influential in ancient Mesopotamian cosmology. In Sumerian mythology, the pantheon's most mighty and vital deities were the "seven gods who decree". They were associated with specific celestial bodies. Inanna was associated with Venus, Utu to be the Sun, and Nanna was the Moon. Later, Mesopotamian peoples adopted these associations and assigned their deities to the classical planets until all seven celestial bodies visible with the naked eye became identified with prominent deities. The modern seven-day week originated with the ancient Babylonians, and they associated each day with one of the seven planetary divine beings. We can see such divine beings there in greek, roman, Hebrew mythologies.

The Jewish interest in these seven gods might have developed during their Babylonian captivity. Specific names for the angels were brought back by the Jews from Babylon. These gods became the angels as the people of Judea moved towards monotheism. Christian, Islamic traditions also mentioned archangels. From the celestial planets, we have seven beautiful weekdays, beautiful archangels, and in between many beautiful stories mixed with imagination and historical events.

(Continue after the Links...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mesopotamian_deities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marduk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_deities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archangel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Archangels

Stars and stories continue to amaze and lead human history. Humans worshipped many variations of Sun God, from Nile civilizations to today. The winter solstice occurs when one of the Earth's poles has its maximum tilt away from the Sun. It happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere (Northern and Southern). For that hemisphere, the winter solstice is the day with the shortest period of daylight and longest night of the year, when the Sun is at its lowest daily maximum elevation in the sky. This event is considered a reversal of the Sun's ebbing presence in the sky, also associated with the concepts of the birth or rebirth of sun gods that have been common in mythologies. Sol Invictus ("The Unconquered Sun/Invincible Sun") was originally a Syrian god who was later adopted as the chief god of the Roman Empire. His holiday is traditionally celebrated on December 25, as are several gods associated with the winter solstice in many pagan traditions. It is speculated this is the reason behind Christmas's proximity to the solstice.

In actuality, many ancient gods, kings, and heroes were said to have been born under a “bright star” or some other sort of celestial sign, indicating their greatness. This heavenly theme is astrological and astrotheological in nature, dating back centuries to millennia before the common era. Indeed, like so many other religious and mythological correspondences, the “bright star” and the “three kings” represent motifs that long predate Christianity and are found within Egyptian religion, symbolizing the star Siriusas well as those of the constellation called Orion, along with their relationship to the Egyptian deities Osiris, Isis and Horus.

The three highly visible “king-stars” of the splendid constellation of Orion are named Mintaka, Aniltak, and Anilam or Alnilam, the latter of which means “string of pearls,” while the former two signify “belt.” The statement in the Egyptian texts that Sothis “leads Orion” thus constitutes the motif of the bright star followed by these three “kings,” which have also been called the “three kings of the soothsayers,” a title that may indicate the antiquity of this royal appellation.

The bright star Sirius rose with the sun at the summer solstice, signaling the birth of Osiris as the Nile inundation and the birth of Horus as the daily solar orb. In winter, the Three Kings in the belt of Orion pointed to Sirius at night before the annual birth of the sun, which is also Horus. The appearance of the three stars in a line with Sirius occurred in the night sky over Egypt thousands of years ago, pointing to the horizon as the new sun was born at the winter solstice. Thus, it could be asserted that the three kings trailing the bright star announced the birth of the savior at the winter solstice in Egypt, ages before the same event purportedly taking place in Judea.

Stories revolved around kindness, war, and redemptions. Stories and histories made kings and kingdoms that revised and revealed the truth. Stories sow the seeds for more stories, from above the skies to every heartbeat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_solstice
https://stellarhousepublishing.com/star-east-three-kings/