Since it determines both the cycle of the day and the circle of the seasonal year, the sun provides the structure of our existence, the framework within which our world revolves. As such, it seems to suggest all celestial and earthly order. Due to its dependability, the sun stands for authority. Law and Order. The sun, Ra, sailed through the skies accompanied by the Goddess, Maat, the embodiment of sunlight and the rightness of things, the natural order.
Civil law is an extrapolation of the structured order of the universe.
Hammarabi, who in the 18th Century B.C. codified Babylonian law, is always pictured standing on a stone column inscribed with the Code of the king. He is facing Shamash, the sun, in Whom justice dwells. It is He who has sent down the law. Varuna was the guardian of the cosmic laws in Vedic India. He measured earth, sky and air and cast the four directions.