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Passages similar to: Aurora — Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven.
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Aurora
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (104)
Morning and evening are and reach up from the earth to the moon only, and take their original from the light of the sun, and this makes evening and morning, as also the outward day, and the outward dark night, as every one knoweth.
The Conference of the Birds
Invocation (17)
Sun and Moon - one* the day, the other the night, bow to the dust in adoration; and from their worship comes their movement. It is God who has spread...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXII (33)
And the length of the day and of the night, and the shortness of the day and of the night arise--through the course of the sun these distinctions are ...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXII (15)
And the sun mounts up to make the day shorter and the night longer, and the sun returns to the east and enters into the sixth portal, and rises from i...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXIII (7)
And she sets with the sun, and when the sun rises the moon rises with him and receives the half of one part of light, and in that night in the beginni...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VII: What Sort of Prayer the Gnostic Employs, and How It iS Heard By God. (22)
In correspondence with the manner of the sun's rising, prayers are made looking towards the sunrise in the east. Whence also the most ancient temples ...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXVII (13)
She becomes full moon exactly on the day when the sun sets in the west, and from the east she rises at night, and the moon shines the whole night...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXII (25)
And the sun rises on that day from that second portal and sets in the west in the second portal, and returns to the east into the first portal for one...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXII (8)
And he has power over night and day in the heaven to cause the light to give light to men--sun, moon, and stars, and all the powers of the heaven whic...
Popol Vuh
Part III, Chapter 9 (4)
Before the sun rose, damp and muddy was the surface of the earth, before the sun came up; but then the sun rose, and came up like a man. And its heat...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXII (23)
And the sun rises from that third portal and sets in the third portal in the west and returns to the east, and for thirty mornings rises in the second...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXIII (11)
And when I had gone forth below and seen the heaven, and the sun rising in the east, and the moon setting in the west, and a few stars, and the whole ...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXII (9)
And during this period the day becomes daily longer and the night nightly shorter to the thirtieth morning.
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXVII (11)
During all the period during which the moon is growing in her light, she is transferring it to herself when opposite to the sun during fourteen days...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXIII (3)
And her rising and setting change every month: and her days are like the days of the sun, and when her light is uniform (i.e. full) it amounts to the ...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXVII (14)
On the side whence the light of the moon comes forth, there again she wanes till all the light vanishes and all the days of the month are at an end,...
Asclepius
Section XL (3)
It rises and it sets, by turns, throughout its limbs ; so that by reason of Time’s changes it often rises with the very limbs with which it [once]...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXIII (4)
And her first phase in the east comes forth on the thirtieth morning: and on that day she becomes visible, and constitutes for you the first phase of ...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXII (37)
As he rises, so he sets and decreases not, and rests not, but runs day and night, and his light is sevenfold brighter than that of the moon; but as...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter LXXXIV (12)
And Evening is the beginning of my voyage to celebrate the solemnity of the Reclining and the Embrace of the Aged one who hath charge of the Earth
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXII (29)
And the sun has returned and entered into the second portal in the east, and returns on those his divisions of his orbit for thirty mornings, rising a...
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