Sun Rays and Halos

Sun rays and halos are both sun worship symbols. The round halo is a representation of the sun disk which was worshiped in ancient times. Halos and rays are used throughout Eastern religions and prolifically in the Catholic Church. The Statue of Liberty given the United States by the nation of France also exhibits the sun worship symbols of the sun rays around her head. Paganism is still alive today. Many of the images in this album are featured in Amazing Discoveries' Total Onslaught: The Wine of Babylon lecture. Purchase The Wine of Babylon DVD or view the lecture online.

A Japanese god of happiness. Notice the halo behind the head. Source: Great Controversy Picture CD, LLT Productions.
A Japanese god of happiness. Notice the halo behind the head.

Source: Great Controversy Picture CD, LLT Productions.
Krishna with a halo. Source: Exotic India Art Online.
Krishna with a halo.

Source: Exotic India Art Online.
Roman Catholic statue with a halo in a London Cathedral. Copyright Amazing Discoveries.
Roman Catholic statue with a halo in a London Cathedral.

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A Hindu deity with a halo. Source: Sulekha Online.
A Hindu deity with a halo.

Source: Sulekha Online.
A Hindu statue of Lakshmi with a halo. Source: Lotus Sculpture Online.
A Hindu statue of Lakshmi with a halo.

Source: Lotus Sculpture Online.
Chinese deities with halos. Copyright Amazing Discoveries.
Chinese deities with halos.

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A halo in Hinduism—the British Museum, London. Copyright Amazing Discoveries.
A halo in Hinduism—the British Museum, London.

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Weeping Our Lady of Cicero icon, April 24, 1994, in Saint George Antiochian Orthodox Church. Note the hand sign Jesus is making. The halo is also a sun worship symbol. Source: Visions of Jesus Online.
Weeping Our Lady of Cicero icon, April 24, 1994, in Saint George Antiochian Orthodox Church.

Note the hand sign Jesus is making. The halo is also a sun worship symbol.

Source: Visions of Jesus Online.
Image of Christ with straight and wavy sun rays. The straight rays represent the male, and the wavy rays represent the female. Copyright Amazing Discoveries.
Image of Christ with straight and wavy sun rays. The straight rays represent the male, and the wavy rays represent the female.

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Image of Mary with sun rays emanating from her. Copyright Amazing Discoveries.
Image of Mary with sun rays emanating from her.

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Sun rays emanating from the center of a monstrance, a Catholic vessel used to display the Eucharistic host. Note that they are both straight and wavy alternating. The straight rays represent the male, the wavy represent the female. Source: TUIA Connect Online.
Sun rays emanating from the center of a monstrance, a Catholic vessel used to display the Eucharistic host. Note that they are both straight and wavy alternating. The straight rays represent the male, the wavy represent the female.

Source: TUIA Connect Online.
A sacred heart, the letters SFS, and sun rays emanate from the center of this monstrance, a Catholic vessel used to display the Eucharistic host. This particular monstrance is also interesting because it shows both the male and female rays emanating from it. Source: Great Controversy Picture CD, LLT Productions.
A sacred heart, the letters SFS, and sun rays emanate from the center of this monstrance, a Catholic vessel used to display the Eucharistic host. This particular monstrance is also interesting because it shows both the male and female rays emanating from it.

Source: Great Controversy Picture CD, LLT Productions.
A statue of Mary holding a sun image. Copyright Amazing Discoveries.
A statue of Mary holding a sun image.

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The face of Apollo, the Greek sun god, surrounded by sun rays (both straight and wavy). Pergamum Museum, Berlin. Source: Religious Iconography Online.
The face of Apollo, the Greek sun god, surrounded by sun rays (both straight and wavy). Pergamum Museum, Berlin.

Source: Religious Iconography Online.
The face of Christ set in the fertility symbol of the sun on a Roman Catholic Church. Source: Hub Pages Online.
The face of Christ set in the fertility symbol of the sun on a Roman Catholic Church.

Source: Hub Pages Online.
A relief of the Greek sun god Helios with his chariot. Excavated at Troy in 1872 and now displayed in the Staatliche Museum in Berlin. Source: Madanjeet Singh, The Sun in Myth and Art (London: UNESCO, 1993): 281.
A relief of the Greek sun god Helios with his chariot. Excavated at Troy in 1872 and now displayed in the Staatliche Museum in Berlin.

Source: Madanjeet Singh, The Sun in Myth and Art (London: UNESCO, 1993): 281.
Apollo, the sun god, one facet of the pagan trinity. Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Mary in Cologne, Germany. Copyright Amazing Discoveries.
Apollo, the sun god, one facet of the pagan trinity. Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Mary in Cologne, Germany.

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The Medallion of Cybele, excavated from Ai Khanum, Afganistan. Alexander the Great created this to remind him of his aspiration to 'rule like the sun.' Notice the sun rising out of the crescent moon. Source: Madanjeet Singh, The Sun in Myth and Art (London: UNESCO, 1993): 94.
The Medallion of Cybele, excavated from Ai Khanum, Afganistan. Alexander the Great created this to remind him of his aspiration to "rule like the sun." Notice the sun rising out of the crescent moon.

Source: Madanjeet Singh, The Sun in Myth and Art (London: UNESCO, 1993): 94.
Mary, crowned, holding Jesus. Notice the globe in Jesus' hand, the straight and curving rays, and the crescent moon under her feet. Mary is depicted as the female deity rising out of the crescent moon. Copyright Amazing Discoveries.
Mary, crowned, holding Jesus. Notice the globe in Jesus' hand, the straight and curving rays, and the crescent moon under her feet. Mary is depicted as the female deity rising out of the crescent moon.

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Madonna and Child with halos. Source Unknown.
Madonna and Child with halos.

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Apollo's face in the sun on a pulpit in Scandinavia. Source Unknown.
Apollo's face in the sun on a pulpit in Scandinavia.

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Picture depicting Mary with a solar symbol. Note the halo behind her as well. Source Unknown.
Picture depicting Mary with a solar symbol. Note the halo behind her as well.

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A monstrance surrounded by sun rays and other fertility symbols. Copyright Amazing Discoveries.
A monstrance surrounded by sun rays and other fertility symbols.

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Krishna with a halo. Source: Great Controversy Picture CD, LLT Productions.
Krishna with a halo.

Source: Great Controversy Picture CD, LLT Productions.
Relief of Pope Giovanni XXIII with sun symbols on his hands. Source Unknown.
Relief of Pope Giovanni XXIII with sun symbols on his hands.

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The Statue of Liberty with seven sun rays emanating from her head. Source: Great Controversy Picture CD, LLT Productions.
The Statue of Liberty with seven sun rays emanating from her head.

Source: Great Controversy Picture CD, LLT Productions.
The face of Apollo on Bernini's Canopy in the Vatican. Copyright Amazing Discoveries.
The face of Apollo on Bernini's Canopy in the Vatican.

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Face of the Child within the fertility symbol of the sun's rays on a Roman Catholic altar. Source: Great Controversy Picture CD, LLT Productions.
Face of the Child within the fertility symbol of the sun's rays on a Roman Catholic altar.

Source: Great Controversy Picture CD, LLT Productions.
A Syrian icon that drips oil supposedly painted by St. Luke. Again a halo is seen behind the mother and the Child. Copyright Amazing Discoveries. See more weeping icons (warning: images may be disturbing).
A Syrian icon that drips oil supposedly painted by St. Luke. Again a halo is seen behind the mother and the Child.

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