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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2055, 15 April 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

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Kirill of! lie Sun

To the legend of the sun-god's birth referred to in'the last three numbeis many others might bo added. iu fad. toi.e are innumerable stones of the same kind, relating to the birth and babyhood of sun g..iis ..rsolar heroes, or persons who (long alter their death) were regarded as divine, and therefore as necessarily dost ingutshod « by all such attributes as ancient solar ;oligioiis had assigned to the (*"d of the Hay and of the t ear. In the old world, as Well as in the new, the same ideas naturally arose, and were as naturally extended to persons who had been destint glushed during their lives as teachers or as legislators, and around whom after their cieatli traditions belonging to far f ; inh .r davs came naturally to cling. Let these examples, however Milt'cv. 'tj Before leaving tli-e consideration of the 'll circumstances attending the birth of the s'in-god. one point remains to lie noticed. I: would b,- nattual, of course, in the In.-toiy of the birth of the actual sun-god - whether as C-in at morn (thedark cave i f night being his birthplace), or as born at tin- opening of tin- year in the midst of the dark and cold cave of winter--that the gl-uy of the sun should be mentioned. This is the account of persons regarded 1 divine, and therefore as showing the -: 11 s of the godhead visiMv, would sugg. -r naturally the id-a of a bri ;ht light • tit ••unding the child at its reiM. Ail ! r lights als-' would disappear in the in. ■. a- -f ilns m.(ms tilumina- : on. The disapj- al.uicc of the lesser iigl.ts has Ikvu legal •led as i xplaining the Mi a of the slaughter of oilier children bv tie'ttram Kansa. m older i.h.n <Vi-lina. whose future 1 p ivve-r had been pi' dieted, should be destroyed als •. In tie- cree of of nearly w. ,y s-lnr hero, ami also m the i ,ise cf pci .-ms nn-ro or less histone to whom e .lav characteristics Were afterwards aligned, we find tlie same idea, . nher as a story relating to a decree for destroying other children born at the -line time, or in reference to measures : -keut-. d -‘; ■>y by t .\|».->ure or other-i-g the ch.’ll it.-:!; whose predicted aver- v,. .c leaved. In one or other !->rm tin, idea app. ars m every solar store and ni .ill -daiised biographies if 1 may bcaiiow.d, f r c uivMiiem,e. to coin such an c\p;■, ..M'-n. As regards tin- bright light attending the birth of the solar lief", . r the ■ol.irised teacher or legishtor, wu- have a number of eurioiis ili.istiatlotis. Wil 11 (hj islltla waXb' it 11, Ills nn 'tiler liC- - ime i ■-pletideiir (remember here how the lavs "t tin- ri-iiig sun at the winter .-•ii-ii e shone full upon Virgo). Tim ■aide , ve was splendidly illuminated, iy s th, \ islmn I’uraiia, ” the quarters of ri,- !!■ .iu ni ware irradiated with joy the s;c,:t, ami nymphs of heaven danced and sail., the elouds emitted love, pleasing ->uii'!-. Heal, in his “ History of the Buddha." relatesliovv. according to Hnd.iMsh tru Li i-m ... when the Saviour of the world V. ~ b .rn, “ a divine ligi.t diffused ; r -elf a; -mid Ins pers-m. the Ulcs.-ed (Ine "•mg i.. raided into the World by a superi.Uitral light. " V. .roaster, the great ■ ember. ■ , vimm later u was found that we spra;i thorn an immaculate conception by a ray of divine reason, was no sooner born than the glory arising from his body enlightened the whole room, and 1m laughed jo\fully at his mother (Laughter mid Light were and are closely associated ;a the- oriental mindi. The legends of tie- Hebrew patriarchs relate that at the b..:ii i r M- -es a bright light appeared and .'.mile .11 around him: his subsequent adoi.iuu-nt with‘'horns or rays will be i- a ail civd by all readers of the 11 reek a.el bum Versions of the Old Testament. In e iriy Christian art we find the same a associated with the birth of Christ, i'iie ib.-pel, however, ill which the event is fee-ns led. is no longer regarded as cm.Mile.U. Indeed, nothing but an amazing intensification of Augustine's power of o-dscviug. - '■ - a t.nittcr was beyond i,..f ... ;, h e said), x -ai i enable men to accept tbe I‘rote- > .ii.cimii. Thus dues the story run in th it aq ryvphal gospel ; —When Mary and ■ : iepb were still throe miles from Hethleiiei,i. and •'iu a desert place.’’ .Mary Slid oi-10-cph. Take me down from otf tbe a--. !-•;■ that which is within me mightily pecs-.,- me. ’ Then he took her down tr-in off the a-s, and found thero a cave an 1 pat her into it. He went toward H riih iiemt-'r a midwife, and biougktuno : k \ ,th him. As they neared the cave a i njitei'iud was seen over it. “ Hilton a -addon the cloud became a great light Oi the cave, so that their eves Could not bear it. I: i- iiotcW'.rtiiv that Tenuliian, defoiue aiid "tie i- of tiie Fathers state that Christ Was U-rii in a cave, and add that "I /.< i- ■ ' - - /;-'■>•- ■--• ;• < a 11- a i F.n r 1 appears to ban t.. tile idea til at ii. -hi tiadai'-n was right, and that " the : ual place of Christ s birth was a cave." t:.> .-amc which “used I" he shown as the s - u ■ of the i vent even - . early as the time of -1 list in Martyr . v.o. Cili|" a dao..vr--us doctrine, oik- w.-uld supl"jsc. What He Did —C -.-La i r-:a.-;ng w..- t .■ r i ~?i a'- ■ u- ai via it-- qv. fi ■: ■ ■• ’ : g t li, pa-i. Ti.e f-.i’. -wiug •’ ■ • -u ■ C- wa> i t; mm- nt ■— - -ai \ ■ w'u -i .v - i.;y in .1 nn.ee,a, aang•-. is' iv t mat -. i , -i- -r j .''• ’ I -i.ht .1 w.rea a iv.iy fk • ping j it ;• X • .... f-c ■•ti a fi: .; \vi.,iiu t -i.-’a-i- I. an t p itrinv 1.-aa-iy : . a t- v i ;- ’ i-t fa sane, kicj cf tu.ng. W-.l!. ti.e d"Ct -r -gar- :..’u a.;-, .m i 1 was -■ ut t ■ wat' hj vv rii lutu. N-i me lieint. vva« lit. I -ni was n—*i .thing Woirid h-.-lp Inn.: and I h.i-l ni , dir.et;..ns w i.at to d. with the \, .dv when In- was dead. Toward- midnight he asked for s-.riK water. I got him tic. c..-.I- -t I ■ 'Ubi tin I. au-1 a'd he wanted: an I. if V"u'!l h-Mevt me. in less than three hours Iu- drank three gal-.'i:-. The -weal rolled off him i fce ram. Then I thought sure lie wagon- : i-ut I;-, was sleeping, and as sw.-i f y .is a chh i. In the morning, when th • -1" t -r came in. iu asked what time the 'aP' --n tyx g. ,n and i --k at him,' 1 ■ war ,u and ; - k the mat 's hand, at I s . d in sui;--w ‘iy f.- i -ill ,- 11 .t d ai. lb-’- aiive an > eg -\ ... \V i.ave v .-; p. n - vmg ■'‘ '• a’- v. -.a,,-:. Wat- r. a-,-( d -ill t . i‘ f 'll t- -j .;v lii- • i 1 uii !a" vthe. ■fr i qNutmegs Poisonous. 1 a .. -a a 11).-gs are p- I- M 1 i.m-g -i -- iiio,.--w: |; -m - ame under medical ' r.-atu.- n 1 .. ia iv hal eai-.-n a wn.nutmeg an-1 a bait, wiu- i, caused extreme dr.-w-m-e-s. tiu-n -gt. it n- r-Tonsexeitem-Tit. foil-.wi t -ut.-e-mem d---presiießand pain m tbe r- gi-.n -.-t tie- heart.