Black Sun

A ‘black sun’ is a symbol appearing in various mixes of mythology and ideology. Sol niger (black sun) can refer to the first stage of the alchemical magnum opus, the nigredo (blackening). In a text ascribed to Marsilio Ficino three suns are described: black, white, and red, corresponding to the three most used alchemical color stages.  The black sun is used to illuminate the dissolution of the body, a blackening of matter, or putrefaction in Splendor Solis,[4] and Johann Daniel Mylius’s Philosophia Reformata.[5]
=== Black Sun as representing punitive force ===
Imagine all the power of the Sun but turned to harm and punish rather than heal and absolve.Media
Sol niger imagery can be found in the recent works of musicians including:
* Coil; Boyd Rice; Black Sun Empire; "Alchemy of the Black Sun Cult", Goatwhore (2006)
* "Sol Niger Within", Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects (1997)
* "Black Hole Sun", Soundgarden (1994); "Battle for the Sun", Placebo (2009)
* "A Thousand Suns", Linkin Park (2010 album cover);
* "Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne" (attack of the demon Alciel)
* "Blackstar", David Bowie (2016)
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Sun; The sun; Solar; Solar worship; Solar symbolism