" The sun is brahma—this is the teaching. Here is the explanation: In the beginning, this world was nonbeing. This nonbeing became being. It developed. It turned into an egg. It lay there for a year. It burst asunder. One part of the eggshell was of silver, the other part was of gold. The silver part is the earth, the golden part is the sky…. What was born of it, is yonder sun. When it was bom there were shouts and hurrahs, all beings and all desires rose up to greet it. Therefore at its rising and at its every return, there are shouts and hurrahs, all beings and all desires rise up to greet it.6 "

― Erich Neumann , The Origins and History of Consciousness