by RobertSteven Smythe
Soleil, Sol, Sole, Zon, Soleil—the star at the center of the solar system. Humanity’s most fundamental understanding of the Sun is as the luminous yellow disk in the sky, whose presence above the horizon creates day and whose absence causes night. In many prehistoric and ancient cultures, the Sun was thought to be a solar deity or other supernatural phenomenon. Worship of the Sun was [...]
