Sun - This Majestic Ruler

"Not even the most recent scientific discoveries…which teach us how we live, and move, and have our being in the sun, how we burn it, how we breathe it, how we feed on it - give us any idea of what this source of light and life, this silent traveller, this majestic ruler, this departing friend or dying hero, in his daily or yearly course, was to the awakening consciousness of mankind. People wonder why so much of the old mythology, the daily talk, of the Aryans, was solar: - what else could it have been?"
— Friedrich Max Müller