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The author highlights cases of semantic adulation for the sun. According to the author, the sun has served as a supreme force in a great variety of religion from the Egyptian Ra and Horus to the Incan Anti to the Slavic Dajbog. The sun has also served as basis for naming a variety of abstract and co...

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Published in:ETC: A Review of General Semantics Vol. 70; no. 2; pp. 120 - 123
Main Author: MOORE, MICHAEL
Format: Article
Published: Institute of General Semantics, Inc. Apr2013
Subjects:
Semantics
General semantics
Sun
Religion
Helium
Solar plexus
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The author highlights cases of semantic adulation for the sun. According to the author, the sun has served as a supreme force in a great variety of religion from the Egyptian Ra and Horus to the Incan Anti to the Slavic Dajbog. The sun has also served as basis for naming a variety of abstract and concrete entities like the element Helium, the solar plexus muscle and a geographical area in the U.S. called the Sun Belt. Brands also reflected this adulation such as Sun Microsystems.