The first is a ritual designed for the individual, which involves sacrificing a " Cake of Light " ( a type of bread that serves as the host ) to Ra ( i. e. the Sun ) and infusing a second Cake with the adept's own blood ( either real or symbolic, in a gesture reflecting the myth of the Pelican cutting its own breast to feed its young ) and then consuming it with the words, " There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: Do what thou wilt!

* The Sun God Ra and Ancient Egypt

One might say that Surrealist strands may be found in movements such as Free Jazz ( Don Cherry, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor etc.

Aten, the disk of the Sun in ancient Egyptian mythology, and originally an aspect of Ra, was chosen as the sole deity for Akhenaten's new religion.

Some tracks from an abandoned album dedicated to Sun Ra and Ray Charles have also surfaced.

* May 30 – Sun Ra, American jazz musician ( b. 1914 )

Based on drawings and models from ancient Egypt, the first boat, named Ra ( after the Egyptian Sun god ), was constructed by boat builders from Lake Chad using papyrus reed obtained from Lake Tana in Ethiopia and launched into the Atlantic Ocean from the coast of Morocco.

Other notable jazz pianists who occasionally played the celesta include Meade " Lux " Lewis, Willie " The Lion " Smith, Art Tatum, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Oscar Peterson, McCoy Tyner, Sun Ra, and Herbie Hancock.

A very short listing of notable jazz bands includes King Oliver and his Creole Jazz Band, Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers, Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra, the Benny Goodman Orchestra, the Dizzy Gillespie-Charlie Parker Quintet, the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, the Modern Jazz Quartet, the Miles Davis Quintet, the Jazz Messengers, the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet, the Sun Ra Arkestra, the John Coltrane Quartet, the Bill Evans Trio, Weather Report, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Herbie Hancock's Headhunters, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Oregon, Return to Forever, the Pat Metheny Group, and the World Saxophone Quartet.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the free jazz movement coalesced around such important ( and disparate ) figures as Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, and John Coltrane, as well as many lesser-known figures such as Joe Maneri and Joe Harriott.

Noteworthy performers included: Dizzy Gillespie, Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich, Gil Evans, Stan Kenton, Johnny Richards, Sun Ra, Gary MacFarland, Charles Mingus, Oliver Nelson, Carla Bley, Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Big Band, Sam Rivers, Don Ellis, Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band, Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and Anthony Braxton.

A cloaked, mirror-faced figure appears in John Coney's 1974 Sun Ra vehicle, Space Is the Place and Janelle Monáe's video for " Tightrope ".

*" Carrying out the rule of Ra " or " Sun of Righteousness "

The pyramid texts were intended to help the king in overcoming hostile forces and powers in the Underworld and thus join with the Sun God Ra, his divine father in the afterlife.

Male examples include the ancient Near Eastern and Greek deities Baal, Melqart, Adonis, Eshmun, Attis Tammuz, Asclepius, Orpheus, as well as Ra the Sun god with its fusion with Osiris / Orion, Jesus, Zalmoxis, Dionysus, and Odin.

It was also in the underworld that the sun, Ra, travelled under the Earth from west to east and was transformed from its aged Atum form into Khepri, the new dawning Sun.

Sun Ra ( born Herman Poole Blount, legal name Le Sony ' r Ra ;

Other important pioneers included Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy, Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, Joe Maneri and Sun Ra.

Much of Sun Ra's music could be classified as free jazz, especially his work from the 1960s, although Sun Ra said repeatedly that his music was written and boasted that what he wrote sounded more free than what " the freedom boys " played.

Music by Sun Ra, especially The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra ( 1965 ), was, in fact, steeped in what could be referred to as a new black mysticism.

Tanner, Gerow and Megill name Miles Davis, Cecil Taylor, John Klemmer, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Pharoah Sanders, McCoy Tyner, Alice Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Anthony Braxton, Don Cherry, and Sun Ra as musicians who have employed this approach.

Rising Sun is a town in Cecil County, Maryland, United States.

* Words for a Hymn to the Sun: The Complete Piano Music of Georges I. Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann, Volume Three, by Cecil Lytle, Celestial Harmonies, 1992

His best known works include the Sex Pistols album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols and the singles " Anarchy in the UK ", " God Save The Queen " ( based on a Cecil Beaton photograph of Queen Elizabeth II, with an added safety pin through her nose and swastikas in her eyes, described by Sean O ' Hagan of The Observer as " the single most iconic image of the punk era "), " Pretty Vacant " and " Holidays in the Sun ".

The participants included notable musicians Cecil Taylor and Sun Ra among others.

In 1964 Bley was instrumental in the formation of the Jazz Composers Guild-a co-operative organisation which brought together many free jazz musicians in New York: Roswell Rudd, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, his ex-wife Carla Bley, Michael Mantler, Sun Ra, among others.

These included: Al Anderson ( Bob Marley & The Wailers ), Bob Berg, South African pianist Dollar Brand ( Abdullah Ibrahim ), Ron Carter, Dizzy Gillespie, Mark Gray, Art Gore, Herbie Hancock, Carter Jefferson, Kraig Kilby ( The Whispers, Etta James ), Geoff Lee, Raphe Malik, Rene McLean, Bob Mintzer, Nobuku Miyamoto, Jaco Pastorius, Sun Ra, Dewey Redman, Sam Rivers, Lady Jane Robertson, Glenn Spearman, Cecil Taylor, Harry Whitaker, Benny Yee ; as well as New York-based Japanese expatriates, acoustic double bassist and Rising Sun group leader Teruo Nakamura, pianist Masabumi Kikuchi, drummer Keiji Kishida, electric jazz guitarist Shiro Mori, trumpeter Shunzo Ono, percussionist Nobu Urushiyama, electric guitarist Masuo Yoshiyaki, and trumpeter Terumasa Hino.

In the 1986 game against rival the Arizona State University Sun Devils, Cecil returned an interception 100 yards to notch a Wildcats victory.

Films shown in roadshow format before 1953 included silent epics such as The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), Intolerance ( 1916 ), The Covered Wagon ( 1923 ), The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1923 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), Ben-Hur ( 1925 ), The Big Parade ( 1925 ), and other films such as The Phantom of the Opera ( 1925 ), the first Oscar winner Wings ( 1927 ), the very first feature length part-talkie The Jazz Singer ( 1927 ), the silent film Chicago ( 1927 ) ( based on the play that inspired the Kander and Ebb Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film ), Show Boat ( 1929 ) ( a part-talkie based not on the 1927 stage musical but on Edna Ferber's original novel from which the musical was adapted ), The Desert Song ( 1929 ), Rio Rita ( also 1929 ), Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross ( 1932 ), the all-star Oscar winning Grand Hotel ( 1932 ), the Oscar-winning biopic The Great Ziegfeld ( 1936 ), the classic films Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1943 ) and The Song of Bernadette ( 1943 ), the wartime tear-jerker Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), Samuel Goldwyn's Oscar-winning postwar epic The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), the flamboyant Western Duel in the Sun ( also 1946 ), and the biopic Joan of Arc starring Ingrid Bergman ( 1948 ), as well as some other DeMille epics, such as Samson and Delilah ( 1949 ).

Indeed, there were several distinctive models of early free jazz, from Cecil Taylor to Sun Ra.

Indeed, there were several distinctive models of early free jazz, from Cecil Taylor to Sun Ra.

He received favorable notice for his role as an aggressive prosecutor in A Place in the Sun ( 1951 ), co-starring Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift and Shelly Winters.

The book was later made into the movie " A Place in the Sun " starring Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor.

Notable draft picks by the Globetrotters include: Sun Mingming ( 2007 ), Brent Petway ( 2007 ), Patrick Ewing, Jr. ( 2008 ), Sonny Weems ( 2008 ), Taylor Griffin ( 2009 ), Tim Howard ( 2009 ), Mark Titus ( 2010 ), Lionel Messi ( 2011 ), Paul Sturgess ( 2011 ), Andrew Goudelock ( 2011 ).

* The 1951 Paramount Pictures film A Place in the Sun, directed by George Stevens and starring Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift, is strongly based on the novel, and is considered one of the finest dramatic films made in the 1950s.

* Elizabeth Taylor in A Place in the Sun, 1951 ; Elephant Walk, 1954

The CD also featured new versions of their songs " A Place in the Sun " ( featuring fellow Red Recording artist Katrina ) and " Love Will Find a Way " ( with Ty Taylor of Vintage Trouble ).

She starred in the film An American Tragedy ( 1931 ) in a role later recreated by Elizabeth Taylor in the 1951 retitled remake, A Place in the Sun.

This led to the media's vilification of Taylor, including the " turnip " campaign by The Sun, which began the morning after the game under the headline: " Swedes 2 Turnips 1 ".

England's first game after Euro 92 ended in a 1 – 0 defeat to Spain in a friendly, The Sun depicted Taylor as a " Spanish onion ".

For Taylor the US Cup began with a humiliating 2 – 0 defeat in Boston to the USA which was reported by The Sun in Britain as " YANKS 2 PLANKS 0 !".

His film credits include Starstruck ( 1998 ), Let the Devil Wear Black ( 1999 ), Bring It On ( 2000 ), Confidence ( 2003 ), American Wedding ( 2003 ), Under the Tuscan Sun ( 2003 ), Garfield ( 2004 ), Elektra ( 2005 ), Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties ( 2006 ), School for Scoundrels, The Pink Panther ( 2006 ), We Are Marshall ( 2006 ), License to Wed ( 2007 ), The Seeker ( 2007 ), Fred Claus ( 2007 ), Charlie Bartlett ( 2007 ), Drillbit Taylor ( 2008 ), Phoebe in Wonderland ( 2008 ), I Love You, Beth Cooper ( 2009 ), The Pink Panther 2 ( 2009 ), The Hangover ( 2009 ), Waiting for Superman ( 2010 ), Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief ( 2010 ), Date Night ( 2010 ), Tower Heist and The Muppets ( 2011 ).

One of his most memorable records, In the Pocket found Taylor recording in the studio with many colleagues and friends, mainly Art Garfunkel ( who duetted with him on " A Junkie's Lament " and also contributed vocals on " Captain Jim's Drunken Dream "), Carly Simon ( Taylor's wife, who harmonised with him on " Shower the People "), Stevie Wonder ( who wrote with Taylor the song " Don't Be Sad ' Cause Your Sun Is Down ", a song on which he also played the harmonica ) and also David Crosby, Linda Ronstadt and Bonnie Raitt, among others.

In addition to having appeared on Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson's solo album Victor, contributing the lead vocal to the song " Start Today ", and having recorded duets with Duran Duran ’ s John Taylor and Boz Scaggs (" Miss Sun " from his 1980 album " Hits "), her vocals have appeared on records for Cher, Richard Marx, Heart, Alice Cooper, Patti LaBelle, Toto, Nena ( for whom she wrote an entire translation album ) and Canadian artists Rough Trade, Kim Mitchell and Glass Tiger.

* Dark of the Sun, a 1968 film starring Rod Taylor also known as The Mercenaries

For the past several years, Angelelli has driven for the Wayne Taylor Sun Trust Racing Team in the Daytona Prototype class of the Grand Am Racing Series, a class that requires two drivers per car.

Taylor was also an Orlando Sentinel Super Southern Team selection, the No. 1 athlete on the Florida Times-Union Super 75 list and rated the No. 1 player in Florida by The Gainesville Sun.