Of all the forms of mystical worship that Homo sapiens has conjured up, worship of the sun is one of the most easily understood. This ball of gravitationally driven fusing hydrogen powers, directly or indirectly, most life on Earth (chemosynthesis in the deep ocean draws a substantial amount of its energy from fission of radionuclides in the Earths core that were created in the supernova of a previous generation of stars). Happy summer solstice fellow children of the Solar nebula! apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100621.html (yes, I know that the page refers to a solstice 4 years old, and that Stonehenge was perhaps more an astronomical observatory than a place of worship, but I thought it was a nice combination of the sun and really, really old sun-related architecture)
Posted on: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 21:02:56 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015