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The sun does never rise nor set? When people think the sun is setting it is not so. For after having arrived at the end of the day, it makes itself produce two opposite effects, making night to what is below and day to what is on the other side.
When they believe it rises in the morning this supposed rising is thus to be accounted for. Having reached the end of the night, it makes itself produce two opposite effects, making day to what is below and night to what is on the other side.
Aitareya Brahmana 3.44, Translator : J. S. Speyer (1906). "A remarkable Vedic Theory about Sunrise and Sunset " , Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. Cambridge University Press. Pages 35-37. ISBN 978-0-521-43878-0.
This text was put into writing much llater but apparently was composed by 600 BC.
Carl Sagan, in Cosmos, stated that the ancient Hindus were unintentionally displaying humility in the way they expressed doubt and uncertainty among the issues that now can be tested scientifically. The "most sophisticated" scientific concepts and theories came from Asia and "particularly from India".
Sagan couldn't have helped but notice that the ancient Indian faiths stood all alone in putting the age of the Universe in the billions of years as opposed to other competing religion's cosmologies either being silent on the world age or placing its beginning in the thousands of years.
Interesting to watch and hope for honest, accurate, and informative analysis of the various ancient texts, commentaries, allusions, theories, etc. to be presented for our indulgence and consumption. I'm not so sure we have gotten it to date. There has to be an interest out there. Isn't the generally (or overwhelmingly) Christian Creation Science movement evidence of a certain amount of interest?
Edited by LamarkNewAge, : No reason given.
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