The Konark Sun Temple has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

* Konark Sun Temple

Indian traders brought Indian architecture to South east Asia through various trade routes. Grandeur of construction, beautiful sculptures, delicate carvings, high domes, gopuras and extensive courtyards were the features of temple architecture in India. Examples include the Lingaraj Temple at Bhubaneshwar in Orissa, Sun Temple at Konark in Orissa, Brihadishwar Temple at Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu.

Later on, South India produced several Hindu temples like Chennakesava Temple at Belur, the Hoysaleswara Temple at Halebidu, and the Kesava Temple at Somanathapura, Brihadeeswara Temple, Thanjavur, the Sun Temple, Konark, Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple at Srirangam, and the Buddha stupa ( Chinna Lanja dibba and Vikramarka kota dibba ) at Bhattiprolu.

There are several sculptures of dancers and musicians in Konark Sun Temple and Brahmeswara temple in Bhubaneswar.

The Vaishnavite Temples such as Jagannath Temple and Konark Sun Temple abound with an array of dancing sculptures carved into the temple walls, giving testimony that a particular school of dancing had continued from the Shaivite art tradition to the Vaishnavite art form.

Odissi pose at Konark Sun Temple

The Konark Sun Temple is a living example of Pidha Deula.

Later, as more differentiation took place, the Dravidian / Southern style and or the Indo-Aryan / Northern / Nagara style of temple architecture emerged as dominant modes, epitomised in productions such as the magnificent Brihadeeswara Temple, Thanjavur, and the Sun Temple, Konark.

* Konark Sun Temple, Orissa

It is 30 km far from Puri town and 50 km from the state capital Bhubaneswar. Konark Sun Temple is just 13 kilometers from this place.

* Konark Sun Temple

* The site of the Konark Sun Temple at Konark in India

One of the " pornographic " films in the story is described as depicting the erotic sculptures of the Konark Sun Temple in Orissa ( Clarke uses the variant spelling of " Konarak ").

Konark Sun Temple

Besides Konark there is also another Sun Temple in Orissa called Biranchi Narayan Sun Temple ( Biranchi Narayan Temple ) in Buguda, Ganjam District.

Though it was impossible to break the Sun temple of Konark, the stone walls of which are of to thick, he somehow managed to displace the Dadhinauti ( Arch stone ) and thus made a way for the temple to collapse.

Similarly, it is said that the Pandas of Konark took away the presiding deity of the Sun temple and buried it under the sand for years.

But others hold the view that the Sun image now kept in the National Museum of Delhi was the presiding deity of the Konark Sun temple.

However, the Sun worship in the Konark temple was ended upon the removal of the image from the temple.

Konark was as glorious a city for Sun worship as it was for commercial activities, but after the cessation of these activities, Konark became deserted and was left to be enveloped by a dense forest over the years.

The eight green columns, I learned, came from the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the others, red, from the Temple of the Sun at Heliopolis.

General view of Temple and Enclosure of Surya | Marttand ( the Sun ), at Bhawan, ca.

* In Palmyra, Syria, a Temple of the Sun is erected to the god Baal.

He died at Sebastopolis, and was buried there, near the Temple of the Sun.

During this time, under the direction of court architects, Joseph Saint-Pierre and Carl von Gontard, numerous courtly buildings and attractions were created: the Margravial Opera House with its richly furnished baroque theatre ( 1744 – 1748 ), the New ' Castle ' and Sun Temple ( 1749 – 1753 ) at the Hermitage, the New Palace with its courtyard garden ( 1754 ff ) to replace the Old Palace which had burned down through the carelessness of the margrave, and the magnificent row of buildings in today's Friedrichstraße.

The Jiajing Emperor also built three other prominent temples in Beijing, the Temple of Sun ( 日壇 ) in the east, the Temple of Earth ( 地壇 ) in the north, and the Temple of Moon ( 月壇 ) in the west.

Eleven women, representing the Vestal Virgins, perform a celebration at the Temple of Hera in which the torch is kindled by the light of the Sun, its rays concentrated by a parabolic mirror.

For example, the Ring of Brodgar and the Standing Stones of Stenness were allegedly known as the Temple of the Sun and Moon respectively.

Instructed to create a Temple of the Sun in the spot where the staff sank into the earth, they traveled to Cusco via underground caves and there built a temple in honour of their father Inti.

Temple of the Sun, front side, facing the sea

Great Temple on Mound C and the Sun Chiefs cabin drawn by Alexandre de Batz in the 1730s

They documented the Temple of the Inscriptions, the Temple of the Cross, the Temple of the Sun and the Temple of the Foliated Cross.

In the 1968 field season, after excavating many tombs in Structure B-4, also called the Temple of the Masonry Altars, the seventh phase of construction revealed the most elaborate tomb at the site nicknamed “ The Sun God ’ s Tomb ”.

The Sun God ’ s Tomb is located in Structure B-4, also called the Temple of the Masonry Altars.

In 1992, Cornell and three other former members of Temple of the Dog played under the name M. A. C. C., recording the song " Hey Baby ( New Rising Sun )" for the 1993 album, Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix.

* Henchmen: Lucreto's guards created from water from the River of Death in the corrupted Sacred Well in the Temple of the Sun.

When Connor restored the Mask of Eternity to its rightful place in the Temple of the Sun, Sarah along with Daventry and its other inhabitants were restored back to life.

The trumps rank as follows: The Angel ( 20 — although it only bears the second-highest number, it is nonetheless the highest ), the World ( 21 ), the Sun ( 19 ), the Moon ( 18 ), the Star ( 17 ), the Tower ( 16 ), the Devil ( 15 ), Temperance ( 14 ), Death ( 13 ), the Hanged Man ( 12 ), Justice ( 11 ), the Wheel of Fortune ( 10 ), the Hermit ( 9 ), Strength ( 8 ), the Chariot ( 7 ), the Lovers ( 6 ), the Pope ( 5 ), the Emperor ( 4 ), the Empress ( 3 ), the Popess ( 2 ) and the Bagatto ( 1 ).

He is associated through the cross sums ( the sum of the digits ) with Key 10, The Wheel of Fortune, picking up on Hermes as a Trickster figure and a god of chance, and Key 19, The Sun, bringing us back to Apollo and to enlightenment.

The Sun Wheel was closed and rethemed into Mickey's Fun Wheel, as the wheel was repainted and the sun face was removed.

* October 14, 2008: The Sun Wheel attraction is re-themed and renamed Mickey's Fun Wheel.

In 1995, during her post-Belly / pre-solo career, she recorded a track with Catherine Wheel entitled " Judy Staring at the Sun ," which appeared on Catherine Wheel's 1995 album Happy Days.

The Magician to the Hermit ; the Wheel of Fortune through The Sun.

Each represents a break with the previously established order: the Magician starting the journey ; The Wheel of Fortune introducing random chance ; and The Sun reborn from the underworld.

Although the origin of the Five Rites prior to the publication of The Eye of Revelation is disputed between practitioners and skeptics, a comparison of illustrations of the postures shows a remarkable similarity between the Rites and authentic Tibetan phrul ' khor exercises from a system rendered into English as ' Vajra Body Magical Wheel Sun and Moon Union ' ().

This was followed by changes to the Sun Wheel to become Mickey's Fun Wheel and new Games of the Boardwalk in 2009.

* Sun Wheel

The boardwalk games were then re-themed to incorporate more familiar Disney characters ( completed on April 7, 2009 ), and the Sun Wheel was transformed into Mickey's Fun Wheel with a new color scheme, new lighting effects, and a " pie-eyed " Mickey Mouse face replacing the original sun face ( completed on May 4, 2009 ).

The term Black Sun ( German Schwarze Sonne ), also referred to as the Sonnenrad ( the German for " Sun Wheel "), is a symbol of esoteric or occult significance.

* Wewelsburg: Building projects and Sun Wheel ( in German )