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planet than on Earth. And it is also true that the luminary consists mainly of hydrogen and helium. According to another legend, the Sun revolves around the Earth, wrapping it with golden threads. In Ancient Egypt, in antiquity, the yellow metal was associated with divine power and authority. In Egypt gold was associated with the sun god Ra. According to legend, the goddess of the heavens Nut in the mornings took the form of a cow and gave birth to a golden calf. By noon he became a bull and transformed into the god Ra. In the evening in the personification of the setting sun Atum he coupled at sunset with the cow Nut. Before the coming of a new day the fall consumed the golden bull, and in the morning again the calf was born. According to another legend the sun was considered a golden disk, which in the mornings the god Khepri, transformed into a scarab beetle, lifted and rolled across the sky. At noon he handed it over to Ra, who in the barque of the eternity of day further carried the heavenly luminary to the God of the evening Atum, who hid the disk back beyond the horizon. In the Old Testament the Golden Calf appears as an object of worship of the people of Israel. The second book of Moses, Exodus, tells of how the Jews, returning from Egyptian captivity, while waiting for Moses who had ascended Mount Sinai, lost faith in the completion of their wanderings. They murmured and turned to the priest Aaron, asking for an idol to whom they could bow, with prayers to lead them to their homeland. The high priest called on them to gather all the gold and to cast from it a statue, to which they began to bring sacrifices. Moses, descending from the mountain, condemned his tribesmen for apostasy. In anger he broke the tablets he had received from God with the Ten Commandments, which forbid creating idols and bowing to two gods. Afterwards he ordered the statue to be destroyed.” You see how interesting that is.

Well, when I am reading all this now, again everything brings me back to what? The apples of the Hesperides. The golden apples of the Hesperides, which are in the garden, which must be found. What kind of apples are these? Well then, I open further in Wikipedia. “The Hesperides are figures of ancient Greek mythology, named after their father Hesperus or after their mother Hesperis: by their father — nymphs, daughters of Hesperus (the Evening Star) and Nyx (Night).” Daughters of Nyx (night), you see, again, as if the same sisters.