Thou living Sun

'Thou shinest so beautifully on the horizon of heaven,
Thou living Sun, who created life.
Thou standest on the eastern horizon
And hast filled all lands with thy splendor.
Thy rays embrace the lands to the very end
Of all thy creation.'

'Ikhnaton, from the Egyptian Hymn to the Sun. Quoted by Rudolf Thiel in And There was Light, translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston, 1957.