Solar cult, an ancient tradition that still accompanies humanity

 Virtually all cultures throughout history have recognized the power of the sun. People instinctively felt that without the Sun there would be no life and respect for our day star has accompanied humanity for many centuries. The remnants of the solar cult can even be found in the supposedly monotheistic religion of Christianity.

It is hardly surprising that most cultures saw the sun as a driving force. Some even treated them as a creator. In many prehistoric religions, the sun is at the center. The wisdom of the ancients also manifested itself in the fact that this star was appreciated not only for its gift of life but also for its ability to destroy. Historians say that worship of the Sun was common mainly in temperate regions. It was known in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Ancient Armenia. The sun was worshiped by American Indians and civilizations such as the Aztecs, Greeks, and Persians.

The sun was almost always at the center of the pantheon of the various Gods in which our great fathers believed. The most popular names for deities modeled on the Sun are Egyptian Ra, Persian, Indian and Roman Mithra, Norse Sol, or Slavic Swarożyc aka Swaróg.

Unfortunately, we know very little about the religion of our ancestors. This is mainly because no artifacts from the tribal times of Poland have survived. The religion of the early Slavs is recreated on the basis of rudimentary information present in various documents and chroniclers. It is hard to believe that Christianization was dealt with so quickly. Many pagan customs and customs were still quite alive in the 12th century. The Catholic Church did not seem to attach great importance to the risk of neopaganism and the revival of old cults. On the other hand, perhaps the policy of silence was aimed at just such an effect. If so, it has achieved it reasonably well.

However, some sources about the religion of the first Slavs in today's Belarus and Russia remained. This is enough to say with certainty that the Cult of the Sun was at the center of the religion of the ancient Slavs and the deity was called Swarożyc or Swarog, which is the homonymous name of the same god. One would be wrong to say that Sun Cult is not present in Christianity. This religion is full of various loanwords. For example, a solar cross is often styled in the halo of saints. It is an ancient symbol embedded in modern religion. There are more references, let's take the Feast of Corpus Christi, which is celebrated today. The priests show the area around an artifact, a monstrance that immediately brings associations to the Sun. Sometimes we don't think about it, but let's look at most of the monstrance patterns, they are solar discs.

What is most important is not to forget about your roots, about the faith of your ancestors. Observing how Christianity struck into paganism and how both religions complemented each other, we must not forget that Slavic traditions do not always come from Western culture, and we ourselves should feel proud of the legacy of Western Slavs, the ancestors of today's Poles.