Invisible Sun

Perhaps my daughter F is a distant relative of the ancient Egyptian deity Nut, who swallowed the sun at the end of every day and gave birth to it every morning (from www.pantheon.org):

The ancient Egyptian sky-goddess, one of the Ennead of Heliopolos. She is the personification of the sky and of the heavens, the daughter of Shu and Tefnut.

Nut was the barrier separating the forces of chaos from the ordered cosmos in this world. The god Re was said to enter her mouth after setting in the evening and travel through her body during the night to be reborn from her vulva each morning. She also swallows the stars and has them reborn later. In the death cult she plays a part in the resurrection of the dead; she is portrayed on the inside of the lids of the sarcophagi. The pharaoh was said to enter her body after death, from which he would later be resurrected.

As sky-goddess Nut was portrayed as a naked woman covered with painted stars, held up by Shu. Thus she forms the firmament above her husband Seb, the earth. Her fingers and toes were believed to touch the four cardinal points or directions.

Now with our little ancient Egyptian religion lesson out of the way, I have to confess to being lax in ranting about the confirmation hearings for Alberto “Torture Guy/International Law is for the Little People” Gonzales and Condi “Mushroom Clouds/Bin Laden Determined to Attack U.S.” Rice, as well as the lavish coronation of George Dubya “I Actually Won this Time and am Gonna Whoop It Up in my Boots Even though it’s Wartime and all my Policies are Unmitigated Disasters” Bush. Well, kids, you too can betray everything good this country stands for, be rewarded handsomely, and no one gives a damn.

I mourn for our nation.