This Imperial sum worship at the Winter Solsticn, which is as old ae Chinese tradition, la in iteell ey dence, that among the pro-historic Chines" the Sun, or the Great Mal Principle, as he' is called was 01 ginally identical with the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, ax he was with so many of the Milo-European peoples before mythology grew complex as civilization developed and the Sun's attributes wore deified and, as the pantheon grew. took their places beside or even above him. All religions come from Asi and all Asiatic faiths are founda upon the theory of the dualism of nature, the concurrent existence of the light and dark, or of the malo and female, principles. In spite of the enormous accumulation of ana. mistic tradition, this is still the basis of Chinese cosmogony. The supreme light principle is the sover reign of the universe and is of course symbolized by if not identified with the sun, while the supreme dark principle, which is in some faiths hostile to the light but simply complimentary to it in China, is the moon. No one can read the Rigveda, the fountain head of Brahmaniusm, without feeling that thi was the original cosmogony of the \do-European peoples and that all other gods are simply personiions of the various manifestations, or aspects, or functions, of
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