What is the symbolic meaning of the sun?

Answer 1

I am not exactly sure how the sun could be used as an example of symbolism, but I can try can't I? One way to figure out how something is used as a symbol is to figure out what exactly it does or has been known to do, and then take a lil literary liberty with it. Given the nature of the sun, I would say that it could stand for perserverance. How? Well, the sun always comes up in the morning and goes down in the evening. In Naruto, an anime about ninjas, the main character has a very fashionably loud outfit and even louder hairstyle (pointed like the sun and colored in the selfsame manner). He always gets knocked down (sunset) but always gets up (sunrise) and when he gets really agitated, his attacks often leave his enemies stunned, like a sunburn. If he is not a symbol of the sun, I don't know what is, as I can't think of any case of the sun being symbolized in The Bible. Japan is the easternmost country in the world, so it is named the "Land of the Rising Sun". The sun sets in the Cowboy West, right? The hero of the day rides off into the SUNSET. Coincidence? Nah.