Sun

The Greatest Light (Photograph by NASA)

### Aliases

The Sun, Apollo, Sol, When Day Breaks, Manifestation of God's Light, Solar Disk, Greater Light (By Moses), Ra, Horus, Amaterasu, Apalla the Sun Queen

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Solar System

The **Sun** is a large star emanated from Ra approximately 5 billion years ago to be the core of the main solar system.

## Overview

The Sun is the source of life on planet Earth, representing the light of Ra who is the source of all life, making the sun being just a small demonstration of his Glory. For billions of years, this star has been orbited by several planets and dwarf planets around it, giving life to planet Earth and a few other planets.

## Description

Due to its role in giving life to the planet and illuminating the celestial firmament, the Sun was adored by humans as a deity for several millennia, which made several pagan gods gain fame among humans and receive adoration, such as Amaterasu, Apollo or Helios. After the worship of the one and true God was founded by Moses, little by little the worship of the gods of the Sun, Earth and Moon were being abandoned to adore the Creator of these three luminaries.

## History

The Sun formed approximately 5 billion years ago, born from a primal star that exploded and gave rise to the solar system. Normally, it is common for stars to be born together with "sister" stars, thus forming binary star systems like the costellation of Canis Major, Sirius A and Sirius B.

However, the Earth's solar system has only one star which is the Sun, due to the fact that the material that would be used to generate the second star of the solar system, in this case Jupiter, was stolen by the other gaseous planets like Saturn, Neptune and Uranus, preventing Jupiter from evolving into a brown dwarf star, remaining a gaseous planet.

## Myths and Legends

In ancient times, the Earth was believed to be a large disk or island floating over an unlimited ocean, consequently, the sun and moon also had a different view. Ancient people did not believe that the sun was spherical due to the fact that when observed from Earth, it was evident that the sun looked like a bright disk, especially during sunset. Because of this, ancient people believed that the sun was a luminous disk that was the manifestation of some deity, such as the God Aten.

In Hebrew myths, the Sun was seen as a luminous spiritual being, an angel more properly, as were the moon and stars, with the stars constantly being claimed to be the Angels that fly over the heavens. The solar god of the Hebrews was El, the creator of the universe and ruler of order, who in turn had a consort, the moon goddess Asherah. While El was a sun god, Yaldabaoth was a storm and desert god, a warrior-god defender of His people. However, the two gods were eventually merged into a single deity, with Yaldabaoth and El being worshiped as the same God, and with the consort of Yaldabaoth being Asherah.

The sun and moon being portrayed as a couple is universal in Earth myths, with the sun usually being placed as the positive and active male figure, while the moon usually being placed the female, negative and passive figure. However, in Shinto myths it was not quite like that, as Amaterasu, the sun goddess, is a woman, while Tsukuyomi (and according to some sources, her consort) is the moon god.

## Trivia

* Due to the distance between the Sun and the Earth, it ends up giving the impression that the Sun and Moon are the same size. The sun is 400 times bigger than the moon and the moon is 400 times closer to Earth than the sun.
* For the ancient Hebrews, the Sun, Moon and stars were divine beings, spiritual entities that worked for God.
* When the sun is seen from Mars during sunset, unlike on Earth where the atmosphere becomes reddish, the Martian sunset is bluish.