I've been searching for my home all my life, and you can imagine, that after so much drifting and wandering, and wondering, I come to shock of shocks, that my home is the sun.

And then, the interesting thing is that I'm okay, by virtue of being of the sun. My dis-ease has been of estrangement with the sun.

What mystery, what power and beauty! What majesty!

Yet, the sun that can be seen, like the Tao, isn't the everlasting and true sun.

If there's true religion, then it must venerate the sun.

Hapo ni kweli kabisa

I know the Sun too; Traditional Kalenjin religion is based upon a belief in a supreme god, Asis or Cheptalel, who is represented in the form of the sun, although the sun is not God himself.

This originated from ancient Egypt as Isis and found itself in the west in may forms from all seeing eye and others if you notice ra (sun god) has a circle (solar disk) in its head.

There is something strange about the sun I tell you! All Energy(ether) and thus thought energy originate from the sun

There is no mystery. You know the sun is not the only star... In fact it is not even among the largest... so to even think conclude that this is your home and yet you went to school is insult to your intellect...

That thought is for our great grandparents who couldn't even travel 100 miles away...

At this I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, "Don't do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers and sisters who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God!" Revelation 19:10 (NIV)

Your ignorance is forgiven.

What I've come to understand is that science gives birth to religion and mythology.

The Copernican revolution changed not just science, but also provided a force that's working even now, to change religion.

I can say that our times are times of religious decadence because most world religions are estranged from science. And hence mythologies have also collapsed.

The great work of our times is construction of identity in science, religion and mythology. And not just that, but also the development of identity models that are flexible and with efficient knowledge management practices.

If there were an entity like 'God' then he/she'd require no classification as either 'good' or 'evil'. Such a classification would imply 'worship'.

But would worship be restricted to 'good' or 'evil' only? Certainly not!

Therefore, a God neither 'good' nor 'evil' would still have worshippers.

Tycho please be polite.

But you do have a point

It is more logical to believe in the Sun, being the provable giver of life and to worship it as a God. This indeed has been the case among many peoples. In fact the three major desert religions trace some of their dogma to sun worship.

Alas, faith is not logical and thus Aphadoti will find it easier to defend the worship of an unseen god (a psychopath too, if the old Testament is to be believed) than a Sun God that we can all see and feel.

Tycho, the only reason I admonished you is because I have this mental image of our resident Mullah Alphadoti as the sage of Wazuastan. I suspect one day I'll be disabused of this mental construct but until then-----

As for the Sun/God, given humans desperate need for a prop to serve as higher being, the Sun is as good a crutch as any. So long as we leave our minds open to the possibility that this god may one day be supplanted, we should be ok.

Human history, is the also the history of the sun. Why civilizations have fallen and why they'll continue to fall; it's all in locus of understanding and relation to and with the sun.

We can know how, for example, the African came to be colonized and alienated by other races, and why, even the most concerted efforts to abolish slavery and racism have failed.

The history of the sun provides us as Africans, hope, I bet because everything has its season and time. And that global and even universal conditions now favor the tradition that informed Afrikana philosophy.

I have no doubt that we're at a time when Africans can build a civilization and empire at the same time. And it will be inevitable for a new understanding of the sun to cause civilization and empire.

Empires and civilization are built by the sun.

If you check on the Kardashev scale, African philosophy, science and technology can facilitate a move from O to I.