SUN WORSHIP — SPINDEN 469 



there is order in the universe there also should be order in the destiny 

 of man. All this is said in Viracocha's hymn : 



The Sun, the Moon 



The Day, the Night 



Summer, Winter 



Not vainly in proper order 



Do they march to the destined place 



To the end ! 



They arrive wherever Thy royal staff 



Thou bearest. 



My conclusions are : 



1. Practical observations involving the sun and stars for direction, 

 time of day, time of year, etc., precede sun worship but should not be 

 called sun worship. 



2. On the earliest levels of agriculture shamans developed a re- 

 ligious interest in the sun as a factor in crop protection. 



3. Nonagricultural tribes were infected from the higher centers of 

 culture with certain solar concepts which they developed in their own 

 ways. 



4. Shamans developed into divine kings, and by a parallel process 

 animal gods developed into anthropomorphic gods. 



5. Sun worship as a dynastic cult had various independent origins. 



6. Sun worship contributed greatly (a) to monotheism; (b) to 

 godhead as a mechanical abstraction; (c) to godhead as an ethical 

 abstraction. 



7. Increased knowledge of the sun lessens its relative importance in 

 the greater universe and drives abstractions farther back without 

 reducing them in grandeur. 



