Tell me if I am crazy, but I think the human race is ignoring something extremly simple. When we go outside on a cloudless day... we all seem to ignore the giant burning ball in the sky.
Think about it.
The sun truly is the Bringer of All Earthen Life; without it's effects we would all perish. Did you know we have never sent a probe to the sun? It's too damn hot! The sun exists in a physical realm that is truly separate from our own. If, somehow, we could transport someone directly to the sun they would turn to ash and disappear almost instantaneously; it is not a place for humans.
The Earth's perfect distance from the sun is the foundational cause of all life on Earth. Too much distance from the sun and we freeze to death while not enough renders the planet too hot for life. Since the sun came before the Earth it is safe to consider the possibility of the Sun being the sole cause of Earth's life-housing properties.
Let's continue on.
Eventually humans popped up on this planet. We know that we were not always here and that the smart ones didn't come onto the scene until recently. How do you think these early Sharp Thinking Humans reacted to the physical world around them?
According to what these humans left behind they gave heavy consideration to the sky and everything in it. Why wouldn't they? The sky is full of mystique and wonder if you don't know what the hell it is.
The sun's role in their lives was blatently obvious:
When the sun went down humans became limited. Nocturnal predators would rule the night because of their significantly superiour abilities after the sun retreated. The humans must have sought shelter for the night. And, of course, some humans must have embraced the night and it's challenges. Based on what I have seen and heard any perceived challenge is eventually attempted by humans in one way or another. There is no reason to think that they didn't have the more adventurous type back then too.
As a side note: what is Satan/Evil referred to as sometimes? An Angel of Night? A Dark Angel? How many times have you heard a devil-like character referred to as "The Dark One"? This trend to glorify the struggle of the ultimate ends of the spectrum of Good and Evil is ancient.
Moving on.
From this early human perspective, who or what would be the sun's perceived Nemesis? Naturally it would be the moon, correct? The moon reigns while the sun is indisposed for whatever reason they could think up. If the moon reigns when the sun, the Bringer of Life, is away then they must have thought the moon to have something to do with Death since it is rarely around with the sun. If you were going to personify the moon it would naturally be the outcast or the misunderstood or even the villian.
This seems, to me, very plausible ancient human activity that could have set down the framework for what we now refer to as Good and Evil.
Good = the Sun and Evil = the Night
Once I started applying this thinking to writings of Good and Evil, including sacred texts, I starting seeing some striking patterns. I know it's stupid simple, but the answers to some of the most puzzling riddles can be stupidly simple.
Now I'm not going to sit here and say that the Sun is a lifeform, but I am going to say that that is a cool science fiction concept. That said, whether or not the Sun is sentient or not it holds, possibly, some significant spiritual answers since we currently have no way to reach the sun. It is, for the most part, an untapped source of information.
The sun truly is alive and exerts power. It is a somber thought for me to think about how much adoration, as well as credit, it recieved from our ancients yet, to us, it's just what gets in our eyes when trying to get home from work.
-Sab