Staring at the Sun
The sun is an amazing entity. For hundreds of years many ancient civilizations worshipped the sun. Each morning people of the Aztec faith would sacrifice their own village members, in a display that they hoped would help the sun rise again for yet another day. Their histories never took the rising and falling of the sun for granted.
Indeed, the two most spectacular events in nature happen daily, the beginning and the end of the sun. Streaks of color fill the sky like paint coming from the brush of an imaginative and enigmatic painter. Nature's canvas is a thing to wonder at, the Great Rainbow Itself knows this.
Every child knows that staring at the sun is dangerous. It seems to be one of the few things naturally denied us. Like the fruit of Eden denied to Adam and Eve of Biblical paradise, the sun is the only thing we may never feast our eyes upon. Is it so strange then, to imagine that perhaps like the fruit of Eden the sun holds knowledge we may never acquire, lest we chance to lose paradise in the process? Vision is a sense we hold most dear, although we may get along without it, it is a terrible thing to lose. But perhaps, like our biblical ancestors before us, one of the many is tempted to gain that forbidden knowledge? Is the process of losing our "paradise" truly worth the knowledge to be gained? Or is all of the world an illusion and the sun the only portal to true reality?
Perhaps we'll never know.
The sun is an amazing entity. For hundreds of years many ancient civilizations worshipped the sun. Each morning people of the Aztec faith would sacrifice their own village members, in a display that they hoped would help the sun rise again for yet another day. Their histories never took the rising and falling of the sun for granted.
Indeed, the two most spectacular events in nature happen daily, the beginning and the end of the sun. Streaks of color fill the sky like paint coming from the brush of an imaginative and enigmatic painter. Nature's canvas is a thing to wonder at, the Great Rainbow Itself knows this.
Every child knows that staring at the sun is dangerous. It seems to be one of the few things naturally denied us. Like the fruit of Eden denied to Adam and Eve of Biblical paradise, the sun is the only thing we may never feast our eyes upon. Is it so strange then, to imagine that perhaps like the fruit of Eden the sun holds knowledge we may never acquire, lest we chance to lose paradise in the process? Vision is a sense we hold most dear, although we may get along without it, it is a terrible thing to lose. But perhaps, like our biblical ancestors before us, one of the many is tempted to gain that forbidden knowledge? Is the process of losing our "paradise" truly worth the knowledge to be gained? Or is all of the world an illusion and the sun the only portal to true reality?
Perhaps we'll never know.