by Hiali Quiñonez
Solar veneration in America began with native people. The concept of "Jesus"/"Horus"/"Aten" was brought by Christianity in the 16th Century. For thousands of years before that, "Inti" was how Americans related to the Sun (the "Son"). Other names may predate "Inti", but the importance of the "Sun" is an obvious human concern. Adopting another culture has no effect on who you are genetically, so religion does not tell us much about descent; exceptions are when inter-marriage due to cult doctrine creates future lineage.
Culturally-speaking, the "Jesus"/"Horus"/"Aten" concept replaced "Inti" due to European conquest and expansion, at first. Later, other cultures brought their ideas with them into America and added on as they procreated together. The spiritual belief pool from which we draw our ideas from, today, come from a much larger body of ideas.
The MANNER in which descendants actually relate to a communal belief such as (insert any organised "religion" <"religiokos", to link back> here), however, emerges partially or whole from WHO they are genetically, and how THEIR HISTORY in any given place applied to their antecedents. All though a myriad of dominant cults still exist in America, people are free to believe in whatever they choose.
Solar veneration in America began with native people. The concept of "Jesus"/"Horus"/"Aten" was brought by Christianity in the 16th Century. For thousands of years before that, "Inti" was how Americans related to the Sun (the "Son"). Other names may predate "Inti", but the importance of the "Sun" is an obvious human concern. Adopting another culture has no effect on who you are genetically, so religion does not tell us much about descent; exceptions are when inter-marriage due to cult doctrine creates future lineage.
Culturally-speaking, the "Jesus"/"Horus"/"Aten" concept replaced "Inti" due to European conquest and expansion, at first. Later, other cultures brought their ideas with them into America and added on as they procreated together. The spiritual belief pool from which we draw our ideas from, today, come from a much larger body of ideas.
The MANNER in which descendants actually relate to a communal belief such as (insert any organised "religion" <"religiokos", to link back> here), however, emerges partially or whole from WHO they are genetically, and how THEIR HISTORY in any given place applied to their antecedents. All though a myriad of dominant cults still exist in America, people are free to believe in whatever they choose.
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