• Early depictions of the Universe showed the Sun to be a symbolic center or heart of the Cosmos, an absolute truth (which, according to Plato, is something sun-like, as in ‘the light of truth’.)

• Since its gentle warmth and light are bestowed on every living thing in equal measure, the Sun was regarded as the cosmokrator – the ruler of the world.

• Ancient Incas pointed out specifically that they were the children of the Sun, which for them, was the cosmokrator and the ruler, as well as a wanderer who goes about setting people’s affairs in order and teaching them crafts and agriculture while disappearing to the west, having accomplished its mission.

• Peruvian God of the Sun was often shown as a man with golden disc- shaped face. “In every Peruvian village the sun had considerable possessions. His estates resembled those of a territorial chieftain, and consisted of a dwelling-house, a chacra, or portion of land, flocks of llamas and pacos, and a number of women dedicated to his service. The Women of the Sun prepared the daily food and drink of the luminary, which consisted of maize and chicha. They also spun wool and wove it into fine stuff, which was burned in order that it might ascend to the celestial regions, where the deity could make use of it.”

• In Russian fairy tales, the Sun is represented by “kolobok”, the round loaf of bread that rolls along the mountains and disappears when gobbled up by a fox that symbolizes the night.

Key moment:

God of the Sun is rising from behind a fence where he spent the night. The “glowing love” to all who need it is rising with him. God keeps the boat for the ones who are ready to come into the sacred waters and flow with the current of time.