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Modern astronomy classifies the Sun as a star within its physical model.
Symbolically, however, ancient humanity often experienced the Sun and the stars as fundamentally different kinds of lights.
The Sun ruled the day.
The stars ruled the night.
The Sun moved.
The stars remained.
The Sun rose and setSetIn Geomytha, Set names the claimant: I — the interruption by which reflection is taken as mine and converted toward ownership.Read full entry →.
The stars endured.
And because symbols arise from experience rather than equations, ancient civilizations often distinguished between the two.
EgyptEgyptAncient Egyptian cultural and mythic field referenced by the essay.Read full entry → was no exception.
Indeed, Egypt may have preserved one of the deepest symbolic distinctions ever conceived.
Not merely between heaven and earth.
But between the stars and the Sun.
Between permanence and history.
Between image and identityThis — IdentityThis names the formed identity: the body, role, image, wound, belief, or story claimed as what the self is.Read full entry →.
To the Egyptians, the circumpolar stars possessed a special significance.
Unlike other stars,…
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