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Sun God
The motif on the tower of Bury shopping mall depicts a winged sun god, Egyptian I guess.
The winged disk emblem is found in many ancient cultures around the world. The winged sun disk is one of the oldest religious symbols on earth, and it is invariably a solar symbol.
The Egyptian figure pictured above is called Behedti, with the wings of Horus, and represents the omnipotence of the sun God Re, and the divinity of the Pharaoh.
An Assyrian winged disk represents the sun God Shamash:
Again you'll find these symbols on all sorts of things from cars to buildings.
Sun God
The motif on the tower of Bury shopping mall depicts a winged sun god, Egyptian I guess.
The winged disk emblem is found in many ancient cultures around the world. The winged sun disk is one of the oldest religious symbols on earth, and it is invariably a solar symbol.
The Egyptian figure pictured above is called Behedti, with the wings of Horus, and represents the omnipotence of the sun God Re, and the divinity of the Pharaoh.
An Assyrian winged disk represents the sun God Shamash:
Again you'll find these symbols on all sorts of things from cars to buildings.