Editing Sol (section)

== In cultural history ==
Like other natural phenomena, the Sun has been an object of veneration in many cultures throughout human history. ''Sol''  is the Latin word for "Sun", and was the source of the word Sunday. The Latin name is widely known, but not common in general English language use, although the adjectival form is the related word ''solar''.  'Sol' is more often used in science fiction writing (''Star Trek'' in particular) as a formal name for the specific star, since in many stories the local Sun is a different star and thus the generic term "the Sun" would be ambiguous.  By extension, the Solar System is often referred to in science fiction as the "Sol System". 'Sol' is sometimes used in scientific circles, but 'Sol' is not the "official" name of the Sun, and the word 'Sol' makes no appearances in common reference sources. 

The term ''sol'' is used by planetary astronomers to refer to the duration of a solar day on another planet, such as Mars (planet)Mars. A mean Earth solar day is approximately 24 hours, while a mean Martian sol, is 24 hours, 39 minutes, and 35.244 seconds. 

''Sol'' is also the modern word for "Sun" in Portuguese, Spanish, Icelandic, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Catalan and Galician . The Peruvian currency Peruvian nuevo solnuevo sol is named after the Sun (in Spanish), like its successor (and predecessor, in use 1985–1991) the Peruvian intiInti (in Quechua).  In Persian, ''sol'' means "solar year".

In East Asia the Sun is represented by the symbol 日 (Chinese pinyin ''rì'' or Japanese ''nichi'') or 太阳 (pinyin ''tài yáng'' or Japanese ''taiyō''). In Vietnamese these Chinese Han words are called ''nhật'' and ''thái dương'' respectively, while the native Vietnamese word ''mặt trời'' literally means 'face of the heavens'. The Moon and the Sun are associated with the yin and yang where the Moon represents ''yin'' and the Sun ''yang'' as dynamic opposites.