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HaloAroundTheSun_A661847

I attended a local event this weekend. there was music playing over a public address system. The music was interrupted at one point for an announcement " Don't look up, but the sun is surrounded by a beautiful rainbow right now." I didn't look up but I turned my camera up and composed this dreamlike image via the tilt screen.

 

In many religions from all over the world a halo about the head of the deity is used to symbolize a divine radiance. The roman god sol was always depicted with a halo. This practice was continued in christian iconography from about the fourth century on.

 

Here is some scholarship Encyclopaedia Britannica

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