Ancient Greeks praised the sun-gods Apollo and Helios?.
Ancient Romans praised the sun-gods Apollo and Sol.
Persians and Indians adopted the worship of the Persian sun-god Mithras?.
Each year ca. ten thousand people gather to worship the sun on June 21 at Stonehenge. The site is aligned such that at dawn on the summer solstice the sun's rays line up to the central avenue.
The most popular modern myth surrounding the sun is that it is powered by nuclear fusion. In the mid-twentieth century, the scientific establishment decreed that the sun was fueled by the same process that powers man-made hydrogen bombs. The motivation for this declaration was to gain some moral justification for such weapons by linking them to the life-giving sun. The sun is, in fact, merely an electrode in a universe driven not by nuclear fusion or by gravity, but by electrical discharge, More details on this process are available at http://www.kronia.com