Around the world there are over 100 human names that mean ‘The Sun’; perhaps the clearest evidence of us humans being inspired by, and acknowledging the significance of, a 4.5 billion-year-old yellow dwarf star, a nearly perfect ball of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core.
Its benevolence and its destructive capacity affect all aspects of our being, our cultures, our artworks, and take The Sun away and Polar Night makes us sad, detached, without energy, struggling to concentrate, struggling to stay awake. Give us too much of it and we cannot survive its power.
With music from Colin Williams
Some of the ideas and references we make in this podcast can be found here:
Equinox
Rush
2001 A Space Odyssey
Richard Strauss ‘Sunrise’
Sun Studio
RKO Pictures
Isla Santa Catalina
Helios
U2
Kiribati
Hopi
New Mexico
Mexico FIFA 1986
Serotonin
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Carrington Event
Svalbard
Carl Nielson