In relation to what goes on in the Universe, what the Sun knows, we are like a mayfly. We know our field – this planet – to some extent, but even that knowledge is fairly sketchy. And what goes on in the Universes is as beyond our thought and knowledge as the London Underground is beyond the knowledge of a mayfly. 

The Sun dips down in to the sea as we turn away during sunset, its extraordinary power and beauty as it rises over the land at dawn…. there is, simply, nothing more glorious, nothing more varied, and gorgeous. No wonder religions have got going worshipping the Sun from Utu in Mesopotamia, Ra in Egypt, Apollo in Greek and Roman mythologies, Kinich Ahau for the Mayans….