While much western esotericism stubbornly insists that the sun is male, some British folksong tradition casts her as female: see The Watersons' Country Life, 'I like to rise when the sun she rises' #FolkloreThursday

See also Lal and Mike Waterson's Bright Phoebus: 'Today Bright Phoebus she shone down on me for the very first time' #FolkloreThursday

Characterising the sun as male & the moon as female enabled western esotericists to make fatuous equivalences in which the moon having no inherent light of her own, but merely reflecting that of the sun, stood for women's supposed powerlessness without men #FolkloreThursday

Similarly, the centrality of the Sun (about whom the subordinate planets obediently rotated, keeping to their places) was paraded as an emblem of masculine & patriarchal authority #FolkloreThursday

There are plenty of other asinine assertions and faux correlations: the moon's 'female' changeability vs the sun's 'male' constancy, for example #FolkloreThursday

Personally I like the idea of a wiser folk tradition keeping alive the idea of a female Sun in the face of addleheaded esotericist dogmatism, regardless of whether I can prove it or not #FolkloreThursday