halo oor Xhosa

halo

/ˈheɪɫoʊ, /ˈheɪləʊ werkwoord, naamwoord

(astronomy) A circular band of coloured light, visible around the sun or moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere.

HALO

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High altitude, low opening. — a type of skydiving, where you leave the launch platform from a high altitude, and open the parachute at a very low altitude.

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Also, the clergy offer their flocks eye-pleasing but, in God’s eyes, meaningless religious images, clerical garb, expensive cathedrals, and paintings embellished with pagan concepts, including the halo of the sun-god.
Kwakhona, abefundisi benzele imihlambi yabo oko kubonakala kukuhle emehlweni, kodwa kuThixo kuyimifanekiso yonqulo engenantsingiselo, izambatho zabefundisi, izindlu zeecawa zoobhishophu nemifanekiso enezinto zobuhedeni ezingenanjongo, kuquka nesikhanyiso sasentloko sothixo welanga.

Later, explains Gascoigne, “the sun’s halo” was “borrowed by Christianity.”
UGascoigne uyacacisa, kamva “isangqa selanga sabolekwa bubuKristu.”

However, as we shall now see, the frail, halo-encircled, effeminate, melancholy, long-haired Christ, which often appears in Christendom’s art, is not accurate.
Noko ke, njengoko ngoku siza kubona, akuchananga ukubonakalisa uKristu ebuthathaka, enokukhanya okusisangqa, e-ethe-ethe, edandathekile, eneenwele ezinde, ngokufuthi ovela kumsebenzi wobugcisa weNgqobhoko.

You can even angle the sun directly behind or to the side of your subject to produce a halo effect as the sun highlights the person’s hair, as long as the sun does not shine directly into your lens.
Usekwanokwenza ukuba ilanga likhanyise kanye emva okanye ecaleni komntu omfotayo ukuze kuzobeke isangqa sokukhanya kwelanga esibangelwa kukumenyezeliswa kweenwele zomntu lilanga, ngoxa nje ilanga lingakhanyisi ngokuthe ngqo kwisilanga sakho.

Furthermore, the book The Christians, by Bamber Gascoigne, contains a photograph obtained from the Capitoline Museum in Rome of a sun-god with halo.
Ukongezelela, incwadi ethi The Christians, ebhalwe nguBamber Gascoigne, inefoto ethatyathwe kwiCapitoline Museum eRome yothixo welanga onesangqa sokukhanya.

The sun’s glorious corona (the outer part of the sun’s atmosphere) appeared as a pearl-white halo around the black moon.
Ilitha lelanga lalibonakala njengesangqa esimthubi esingqinge loo nyanga imnyama thsu.

But most of them have long since lost their halos of “godship” and are content to serve as figureheads, central figures of power around which peoples can be encouraged to rally in a spirit of loyalty.
Kodwa inkoliso yabo seyaphelelwa kudala ludumo lokuba “ngoothixo” yaye yanelisekile kukukhonza njengeenkokeli, abantu abamisela igunya, elo abantu banokukhuthazwa ukulithobela ngomoya wokunyaniseka.

They behave as if the visible stars of the galaxy were embedded in a much larger halo of dark matter, invisible to the telescope.
Kubangathi iinkwenkwezi ezibonakalayo zomnyele zivalelwe kwisangqa esikhulu esimnyama, esingabonakaliyo kwisibonakude.

Why are Catholic “saints” depicted with halos?
Kutheni le nto “iingcwele” zamaKatolika zizotywa zinesangqa sokukhanya?

Yes, the halo is connected with pagan sun worship.
Ewe, isangqa selanga sinxulumene nokunqula ilanga kwabahedeni.

In other presentations, Jesus appears supernatural, adorned with a halo, or distant from those around him.
Kanti abanye babemenza abonakale njengomntu onamandla angaqhelekanga, othwele isithsaba nongasondeliyo ebantwini.

If you search them yourself, you will not find her described with a halo, seated on a throne as “mother-queen” and bathed in the reflected glory of Christ.
Ukuba ungaziphengululela, akunakumfumana echazwe njengonesithsaba, ehleli etroneni “njengokumkanikazi ongumama” yaye ethiwe jize ngobuqaqawuli bozuko lukaKristu.

“Jesus,” the book adds, “could be easily identified with the familiar deities of the Mediterranean world, especially Helios (Apollo), the sun god [whose halo was later given to Jesus and then to the “saints”], or his romanized eastern aspect, Sol Invictus (the Unconquered Sun).”
“UYesu,” le ncwadi yaleka umsundulu isithi, “wayegqalwa kuphela njengomnye wezithixo eziqhelekileyo zaseMeditera, ingakumbi uHelios (Apollo), uthixo welanga [ukukhanya kwakhe okusisangqa okwanikwa uYesu kwaza kamva kwanikwa “iingcwele”], okanye kubuRoma basempuma wayegqalwa enguSol Invictus (iLanga Elingoyiswayo).”

For, the two essential features, alike of legend and of tradition, are, that they ever seek to surround their heroes with a halo of glory, and that they attempt to supply details, which are otherwise wanting.”
Kuba, izinto ezimbini abazifunayo, ngokufanayo kwintsomi nakwibali, kukusoloko bezukisa abalinganiswa babo abakhulu, nokuba bazama ukunikela iinkcukacha, ezithi ngandlel’ ithile zibe zizinto ezingekhoyo.”

(Song of Solomon 2:3) Every spring the apple tree is crowned with a glorious halo of blossoms; every autumn it produces fruit.
(INgoma yazo iiNgoma 2:3) Rhoqo ngentwasahlobo imithi yama-apile iyatyatyamba; ize rhoqo ekwindla ivelise iziqhamo.

From the middle of the 4th century, Christ was also shown with this imperial attribute . . . it was not until the 6th century that the halo became customary for the Virgin Mary and other saints.”—(1976), Micropædia, Vol.
Ukususela phakathi kwinkulungwane yesi-4, uKristu naye waboniswa enolu phawu olwalubonakala kubalawuli . . . ibe ngenkulungwane yesi-6 kwaba lisiko ukuba esi sazinge sokukhanya sibonakale kwiNtombi Enyulu enguMariya nakwezinye iingcwele.”—(1976), iMicropædia, Umqu.

TV rarely vilifies these characters for their lack of self-control; it glamorizes them, bathing them in a halo of dramatic glory or an approving chorus of simulated laughter.
Kunqabile ukuba umabonwakude uvakalise okungendawo nxamnye naba badlali ngenxa yokusilela kwabo ekuzeyiseni; uyabahombisa, ubazukisa kakhulu okanye ubagqala njengabalungileyo ngentsini eyiliweyo.

“Solar imagery came increasingly to be used to portray the risen Christ (who was also called Sol Invictus), and the old solar disk . . . became the halo of Christian saints.”
Izinto ezenzeka elangeni kwathiwa zimela uYesu ovusiweyo (owayekwabizwa ngokuba nguSol Invictus).”

Where did the halo originate?
Sasivela phi esi sangqa sokukhanya?