If light and vision are associated, .. then all things illuminated by the sun may in some sense be seen by it. The sun in many cultures is called an eye. In Malay, for example, the word for the sun is ‘mata hari’, ‘the eye of the day’. On the great seal of the United States, shown on every dollar bill, there is the Egyptian symbol of the Eye of Horus – the radiant eye – the sun – both a seeing eye and an emitter of light.
A whole new science has recently sprung up called Helioseismology. It can be observed that the Sun vibrates, rather like a bell. It is presently believed that solar resonances are propagated acoustically from the Sun’s core.
Image by Peter Sharpe
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