Astrolatry, the second division of the Oriental Mythology, included not only the worship of the heavenly bodies, or pure Sabism, but, likewise, that of many other material, visible objects; such as deified illustrious men, &c     When men had gradually departed from the only living and true God, and had lost the sublime idea of an invisible but ever present Intelligence, they saw nothing in nature so beautiful and beneficial as the sun, and soon began to render him divine honours, as the dispenser of light, representing him by various forms and symbols. […] A very ancient traveller in India gives the following account of a temple of the Sun, which he, there, saw: “The walls were of red marble, interspersed with streaks of gold.