On gravestones, the sun is a symbol of death and rebirth. Prior to the eighteenth century, most graves in Europe faced the rising sun. A gravestone with a sun emblem can represent the end of life as well as the afterlife or rebirth. The sun was one of the key emblems of rebirth for many ancient civilizations who believed in the afterlife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On gravestones, the sun is a symbol of death and rebirth. Prior to the eighteenth century, most graves in Europe faced the rising sun. A gravestone with a sun emblem can represent the end of life as well as the afterlife or rebirth. The sun was one of the key emblems of rebirth for many … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3652,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/3652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}