Sun Wheels

Solar wheels, which are often eight-spoked, or two wheels superimposed upon each other, are common in pagan religions as well as in Catholicism. It is clear that Catholicism is a conglomerate of pagan rituals, traditions, and symbols. 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.

Picture of Mary with a solar symbol. Note the halo behind her as well. Source: Great Controversy Picture CD, LLT Productions.
Picture of Mary with a solar symbol. Note the halo behind her as well.

Source: Great Controversy Picture CD, LLT Productions.
This Assyrian king is wearing a Maltese cross, just like the one seen on the Pope's robe. Notice also the sun worship symbols above his hand. The symbol above his hand is the 8-spoked pagan solar wheel. Copyright Amazing Discoveries.
This Assyrian king is wearing a Maltese cross, just like the one seen on the Pope's robe. Notice also the sun worship symbols above his hand. The symbol above his hand is the 8-spoked pagan solar wheel.

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Pope Benedict XVI, with Maltese cross emblems on his robe. The four-spoked Maltese cross within a circle is a key symbol of
Pope Benedict XVI, with Maltese cross emblems on his robe. The four-spoked Maltese cross within a circle is a key symbol of sun worship.

Source: Wikimedia Commons.
An 8-spoked solar wheel in a temple in Kararak, India. Source: Fun On The Net.
An 8-spoked solar wheel in a temple in Kararak, India.

Source: Fun On The Net.
Catholic solar wheels built into Notre Dame cathedral. Source: Educational European Tours.
Catholic solar wheels built into Notre Dame cathedral.

Source: Educational European Tours.
Babylonian King worshiping the sun god Shamash. The sun disc and other symbols represent the moon god, the sun god, and the goddess Ishtar. Source: Madanjeet Singh, The Sun in Myth and Art (London: UNESCO, 1993): 66.
Babylonian King worshiping the sun god Shamash. The sun disc and other symbols represent the moon god, the sun god, and the goddess Ishtar.

Source: Madanjeet Singh, The Sun in Myth and Art (London: UNESCO, 1993): 66.
Sun dance being performed at the thirteenth-century sun temple at Konarak, India. Source: Madanjeet Singh, The Sun in Myth and Art (London: UNESCO, 1993): 123.
Sun dance being performed at the thirteenth-century sun temple at Konarak, India.

Source: Madanjeet Singh, The Sun in Myth and Art (London: UNESCO, 1993): 123.
St. Peter's Square. Notice the sun wheel pattern on the ground consisting of 8 spokes and obelisk in the middle. Also notice the cross with the circle around it under the obelisk—the primary sun symbol. Copyright Amazing Discoveries.
St. Peter's Square. Notice the sun wheel pattern on the ground consisting of 8 spokes and obelisk in the middle. Also notice the cross with the circle around it under the obelisk—the primary sun symbol.

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Bronze ornament representing Hathor—the eye of Osiris—with a solar wheel at the base. Copyright Amazing Discoveries. Egypt.
Bronze ornament representing Hathor—the eye of Osiris—with a solar wheel at the base.

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Solar wheel over the entrance to a Buddhist temple in Thailand. Source Unknown.
Solar wheel over the entrance to a Buddhist temple in Thailand.

Source Unknown.
Assyrio-Babylonian altar, depicting the 8-spoked wheel of the sun. This one depicts the curved and straight rays, representing the union of male and female. Source: Great Controversy Picture CD, LLT Productions.
Assyrio-Babylonian altar, depicting the 8-spoked wheel of the sun. This one depicts the curved and straight rays, representing the union of male and female.

Source: Great Controversy Picture CD, LLT Productions.
Wheel on Roman Catholic altar. Source: Great Controversy Picture CD, LLT Productions.
Wheel on Roman Catholic altar.

Source: Great Controversy Picture CD, LLT Productions.
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