Politics of the Sun: The Pre-Colonized Sun Goddess and the Sun Empire-Building

Abstract

The present thesis, Politics of the Sun, is an exploratory, cross-cultural journey of comparative mythology towards understanding the foundations of power-centred ideologies which have chosen the figure of the sun and constructed symbolisms around it, through the European and American continents. It delves into the civilizatory processes taking place from the so-called matriarchal times into the merging of conceptions that would produce patriarchal mythology, such as the solar power-centred mythology, to pursue an answer to how a non-hierarchical communal system would be deliberately transformed into the hierarchical, power-hungry capitalist system of today.