The worst possible things that could happen to the ancient people was the night. At night, it was dark. You cannot see. It is cold. You feel tired and the mysterious thing happens to you, called sleep. The carnivorous vicious nocturnal animals are out there in the dark looking for their dinner. You cannot see and cannot protect yourself. You are just afraid of darkness. On the other hand, during the day, you can see everything clearly. The sun is generously giving us the light. The Sun [not the Son!] is the light of the world. From sun's perspective everybody under the sun are equal. It is always there for you and will come back again to show his love for this world. Sun and its light supports and nurtures all lifeforms on earth and without the sun we are dead. Not only for our physical survival, sun's light is also essential for our soul to understand and to see. We are heavily designed to perceive the light, color, edge, shape, geometry of the things in this world. A big part of our brain (nearly 1/3) is directly involved in visual processing. The most of the rest of the brain is also indirectly involved in further processing and analyzing the details and its meaning. You are comfortable with visual inputs because you can see what's going on, what is safe, what is dangerous, and what is beautiful. We are dominantly visual creatures and hence we need light to see thing the way they are and to understand things as they are. Additionally, there is only one sun which it signified the single underlying reality and truth. No wonder why all ancient people in different cultures started to worship sun. Originally they chose sun as a symbols of underlying concept of light and its role in our life and as a means of understanding the world. The original sun worshipers used sun as a surrogate object because the concept behind it has no object, even today. But like all other human endeavor, truth is always distorted and people tries to overanalyze [over-anal-yze] or eventually trivialize the deep and hidden truth. Subsequent generations took sun symbol literally as "the truth" and started to create sun idols. That was the birth of paganism. If you think original pagan people were stupider than you, then think again. Original sun worshipers were as smart as you are ( if not smarter, plus they had an extra edge ie. they thought for themselves instead of priest or scientist in contrast to today's people). But if you take the words and what they are saying literally (which they themselves most likely did not take literally, especially at the beginning) then you will only see the utter absurdity and you will instantly discredit any merit they had behind the concept. You will treat them just a bunch of stupid and heretic pagans.

We just need metaphoric light for the purpose of vision, understanding, knowledge and wisdom but we don't want light for light's sake. Excessive light will bleach your vision and hence will block it. So you just don't want light for its own sake. Light's utility is also dependent on darkness. Without the darkness, how can you have any light? What we need is to understand, to contrast and to be able to appreciate. That is real meaning behind the metaphors of light. But, unfortunately, many people think god is light [as bible proclaims] and might be a special kind of light. Does this godlight falls into visible electromagnetic range or outside? If the godlight is not the visible then where is he and why is he hiding? Where we can find him out there? If you do a PhD in optics and light and after examining the all possible lights, you will not find any essence or light that you can equate with god's properties. You, rightfully frustrated, will naturally conclude that there is no god after all. This is the way, the poor scientist becomes agnostic or atheist, just by asking one wrong question and taking one biblical teaching without thinking about what that really meant.

Now the poor scientists who was convinced that there is no essence or Truth in light, starts the search for the ultimate substance behind all matters. They started to smash atoms to check for what is the smallest building blocks. The more they smash the atoms or subatomic particles in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the smaller particles they find. The "god particle" is fleeing away more speedily than scientists are approaching towards it. Eventually, the scientists find that there is no matter after all. Matter is just a temporary illusion generated by waveform probability distribution. There is no underlying substance for the matter. Matter emerged from the empty space as a virtual particle out of no where and vanished again out of nowhere. It's magical like that. At the end, what they have found just bewildered them even more. Now they are more confused than the beginning of their quest. Science should be clarifying in its goal, not to make comprehension harder. This the peril of misusing the gift of logos and intuition towards the egotistic rationalism and empiricism.

There are multitudes of laminae of understanding. If you think that you have got it all, it will only conclusively prove that you haven't got it yet. If you really do then you are not supposed to read this essay in first place! However it does not mean that you cannot have the part of the ultimate truth with you as a starting of this eternally fresh, never-ending "Quest" which is immune from boredom. Actually, the whole purpose of this never-ending quest is the amusement, and appreciation which in turn prevents you from boredom.