day and night

The phenomenon of day and night has always amazed me. Both the sun and the moon have a special place in my heart, these objects portray supremacy and signify the battle of day and night.
Symbols of the sun have been know to be the oldest form of drawings and dates back to 10,000 years ago. Each culture and religion has some relation with both the sun and moon in the beliefs as well as scriptures, societies have worshipped them as god's.

One of the oldest description of them is in the egyptian culture. HORUS was the god of sun, Horus had a man's body and a falcon's head,he was told by his mother Isis to protect the people of Egypt from Set the god of the underworld. Horus was said to be the sky, he was considered to be the Sun. It is also said that the sun was one of his eyes and the moon the other, he moved in the sky as falcon. SET, an ancient god, who was originally the god of the deserts, storm and chaos was a sworn enemie of Horus. And that they had regular battles, many times interpreted like this - Every morning horus (Light) sent set to the underworld thus signifying the day, and every evening Set inturn (darkness) sent horus back to darkness. This battle evn goes on today.


Then there is the Yin and Yang, the oldest chinese representation of Good and Bad, some times signified as day and night also. The concept of yin and yang describes two opposing and at the same time complementary aspects of any one phenomenon. While "yin" would be dark, passive, downward, cold, contracting, and weak, "yang" would be bright, active, upward, hot, expanding, and strong. This is a striking relation to the day and night.

In India we have Lord Surya "supreme light". The term "Surya" also refers to the sun in general. Surya drives through the heaven in his triumphal chariot harnessed by seven horses which represent the seven colours of the rainbow or the seven chakras . Surya is considered to have a dry nature, he also represents the soul, will-power, fame, the eyes, general vitality, courage, kingship and authority Then there is Rahu , who is considerd to be the enemy of surya and always tormented him.
He is the cause of all eclipses and shines as the King of meteors.He drank some of the nectar of immortality, was then caught by the sun and moon who cut off his head, however the mouth having touched the elixir remained immortal and forever hunts the sun and moon, occasionally catching them and so causing eclipses

There are so many striking resemblances in many cultures around the world. I have been a follower of nature and the only thing tangible and physically present is nautre, over the past thousand years people have interpreted the nature and its phenomenon as god or deities, who they inturn worship. Naure has created life and this very nature controls the process of life. Dont be fooled by other intangible theories and myths.