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I painted this rudimentary watercolor of the total solar eclipse "Sun Bird" hovering over the pyramids of Giza based on photographs of the "Sun-Bird" that was manifested within the sun's corona during the July 11,1991 total solar eclipse. Now you know why I am a photographer !
The Ancient Egyptian



Winged Sun Disk Symbol
The winged disk symbol is found throughout Egypt. It appears in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions and on the royal seals and cartouches of Egyptian pharaohs. This ancient Egyptian religious symbol is found carved onto obelisks, the capstones of pyramids, and alabaster bas-reliefs and is painted onto fading ancient wall murals. The winged sun disk symbol graces the stone lintels of the entrances to a great many temples and palaces in Egypt. Numerous Egyptian pharaohs employed this ubiquitous religious symbol of their sun gods as a royal sign of their divinely ordained status.

I have collected considerable evidence which supports E. Walter Maunder's theory that the ancient Egyptian "winged solar disk" symbol was, in all probability, inspired
by ancient observations of total solar eclipses. During some total solar eclipses the condensed equatorial streamers of the sun's corona stretching out on either side of the "black sun" formed by the occulting disk of the moon bear a striking resemblance to the outspread wings of a glorious celestial bird. At the same time the plume-like polar rays distinctly resemble the fanned-out tail-feathers of a gigantic cosmic bird. This wing-like appearance of the streamers of the sun's corona was first remarked upon by eclipse observers in the latter half of the 19th century and it quickly became fashionable amongst astronomers to refer to the sun's coronal streamers as "wings".

For much more detailed information about how the ancient Egyptian winged disk symbol, the Egyptian's venerated solar falcon god Horus, the bennu bird or Phoenix, and other mythical "SunBirds" were all inspired by the remarkable "SunBird" that is manifested during some total solar eclipses please see my 'Pedigree of the Phoenix' "Web Sight" which also reveals how the ancient Mayans and Aztecs, as well as many other ancient civilizations, developed similar religious beliefs and iconography as a direct result of seeing the radiant "Bird of the Sun" that is spectacularly manifested in the heavens above our planet as day turns to night during a total eclipse of the sun. . .
Steve Albers' black and white photograph of the July 11, 1991 total eclipse of the sun clearly reveals the "Bird of the Sun" within the sun's corona which inspired the Egyptian solar falcon god Horus and the bennu bird which we know as the mythical Phoenix bird from ancient Greek mythology
When one adds the "wings" of the sun's coronal streamers that are seen during some total solar eclipses, to the blood red sun that is often seen at its rising and setting, the original source of inspiration for the winged sun disk symbol of ancient Egyptian religion is very clearly revealed
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This typical ancient Egyptian winged sun disk symbol hovers on the lintel of a temple entrance. The green color of the wings is noteworthy in that modern observers of total solar eclipses have reported a greenish tinge to the sun's corona
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striking appearance of
the winged sun disk in the skies over Central America during the April 8, 2005
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This modern composite image of the Sun during the June 21, 2001 total solar eclipse helps to reveal how total solar eclipses clearly inspired the winged Sun disk religious symbol of ancient Egypt which is a much more ancient composite image of the Sun.
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My extensively researched eclipse lore "web sight" about how the bird-like pattern that is manifested within the sun's corona during total solar eclipses inspired not only the ancient Egyptian winged sun disk religious symbol but
also the proverbial Phoenix bird of ancient myth and legend and indeed a
complete flock of mythical Sunbirds such as the Roc, Garuda, and Horus.