This edition has been extensively revised from the original edition. I believe this edition offers much improved clarity and enhances the effectiveness and quality of the Four-book Series overall. The purpose of this book, along with volumes 2, 3, and 4, is to explain, in a progressive manner, the seminal relationship between astronomy, myth, and modern religion. The book shows that ancient mythology was, in fact, a written record of the celestial movements within the Cosmos, under the type of mythical deities. I have chosen the stories of the mythological characters of the Bible and Quran, including the mythical Jesus Christ, as a means of demonstrating the astronomical correlations between the lives of these biblical characters and the transits of the sun and other cosmic lights. M.H.J.