Hab mal ein bißchen rumgesucht, ob das wirklich schon so in den Veden steht.
Die älteste Referenz dazu, die ich finden konnte:
The Secret Doctrine by Helena Blavatsky, 1888
But the Aryan Occultists, we may be told, knew nothing of these later speculations. "They were even ignorant of the globular form of our earth."
To this the Vishnu Purana contains a reply, which has forced certain Orientalists to open their eyes very widely.
. . . "The Sun is stationed, for all time, in the middle of the day, and over against midnight, in all the Dwipas (continents), Maitreya! But the rising and the setting of the Sun being perpetually opposite to each other -- and in the same way, all the cardinal points, and so the cross-points, Maitreya; people speak of the rising of the Sun where they see it; and where the Sun disappears, there, to them, is his setting. Of the Sun, which is always in one and the same place, there is neither setting nor rising, for what is called rising and setting are only the seeing and the not seeing the Sun." (Vishnu Purana, Book IL, ch. viii.)
To this Fitzedward Hall remarks, "The Heliocentricism taught in this passage is remarkable. It is contradicted, however, a little further on." Contradicted purposely, because it was a secret temple-teaching.
http://books.google.de/books?id=KkD5Mai ... ay&f=false
Frau Blavatski war übrigens 1875 Mitgründer der
Theosophical Society.Folgendes schlägt in die selbe Kerbe:
The Aitareya Brahmana (3.44) says: “The Sun never really sets or rises.” Another very early text, the Shatapatha Brahmana (8.7.3.10) states: “The sun strings these worlds - the earth, the planets, the atmosphere - to itself on a thread.” Both these imply that the matter of representation of motion with respect to earth as well as sun was part of the astronomical tradition.
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It is possible that this relativity principle led the authors of the medieval Vishnu Purana (2.8) to assert: “The sun is stationed for all time, in the middle of the day. [...] Of the sun, which is always in one and the same place, there is neither setting nor rising.” [14,17].
http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0610095 [PDF]
Hab mir das Vishnu Purana mal angesehen. Konnte die Passagen so aber nicht finden. Am ehesten kommt folgendes hin:
Vishnu, in the form of his active energy, never either rises or sets, and is at once the. sevenfold sun and distinct from it. In the same manner as a man approaching a mirror, placed upon a stand, beholds in it his own image, so the energy (or reflection) of Vishnu is never disjoined (from the sun's car, which is the stand of the mirror), but remains month by month in the sun (as in the mirror), which is there stationed.
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The glorious sun, Maitreya, darts like an arrow on his southern course, attended by the constellations of the Zodiac. He causes the difference between day and night, and is the divine vehicle and path of the sages who have overcome the inflictions of the world. Whilst the sun, who is the discriminator of all hours, shines in one continent in midday, in the opposite Dwipas, Maitreya, it will be midnight: rising and setting are at all seasons, and are always (relatively) opposed in the different cardinal and intermediate points of the horizon. When the sun becomes visible to any people, to them he is said to rise; when he disappears from their view, that is called his setting. There is in truth neither rising nor setting of the sun, for he is always; and these terms merely imply his presence and his disappearance.
http://sacred-texts.com/hin/vp/index.htm
Und im Satapatha Brahmana steht:
...then yonder sun strings these worlds to himself on a thread. Now that thread is the same as the wind; and that wind is the same as this Vikarnî: thus when he lays down the latter, then yonder sun strings to himself these worlds on a thread.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbr/sbe43/sbe4328.htm
Könnte sein, daß ich etwas übersehen habe.
Könnte auch sein, daß die Übersetzungen nichts taugen.
Ich tippe eher darauf, daß der Heliozentrismus noch nicht in den Veden stand. Bei so altem Zeug kann man viel hineinlesen.
Folgenden Link habe ich mir dann nicht mehr angesehen.
http://www.crystalinks.com/indiastronomy.html
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