Red Sun, Yellow Sun

One day, you'll look
To see I've gone
For tomorrow may rain, so
I'll follow the sun

-- The Beatles

Once you've noticed something, it's everywhere. Found this flipping through a random children's book (Flying Colors by Robert G. Fresson) at a secondhand bookstore.

Apparently, the man in yellow with his yellow sun is leaving the larger country represented by the red sun and becoming independent. Can a Mormon see this and not be reminded of a certain prophet, often depicted in yellow robes, leaving his country and heading east under the guidance of a yellow ball?

This is Lehi holding the Liahona. The name Lehi also occurs in the Bible, where it refers to the jawbone of an ass with which Samson slew a thousand men. The name Samson comes from Shamash, the Sun, and I have repeatedly drawn connections between Samson and the Sun card.

The origin and meaning of the word Liahona is unknown. However, one fanciful but fairly influential proposed etymology analyzes it as l-iah-ona --  the first two elements being the preposition "to" and the divine name Yah, and the last (I told you it was fanciful!) being On, the Hebrew name for the Egyptian city more usually known by its Greek name Heliopolis. Since Heliopolis is the City of the Sun, and the Sun produces light, the whole is supposed to mean "to God is light." The Greek name Heliopolis was used because that city was a cult center of the sun gods Ra and Atum; but the Hebrew On comes from the city's native Egyptian name, which mean "the pillars" -- Samson again!

Note added: The red sun-disc being held by red hands suggests the Egyptian god Ra.

While the country Lehi was leaving was Babylon-occupied Judah, the prototypical country from which people go out under the direction of the Lord is Egypt.

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Not directly related, but also discovered by chance the same day:

Further confirmation that one of the meanings of the 19th trump, The Sun, is the birdemic.

I happened upon this picture because I had seen the Tupperware logo, noticed its obvious resemblance to -- uh, the Wuhan Battle Flag, which also has 19 circles in a sunburst pattern -- and was searching the Internet in vain for anyone else who had noticed the same thing. I found plenty of stories like this one:

But, although it seems impossible, not one of them mentioned the Tupperware logo. I mean, whether as a joke or as a conspiracy theory, how can you not mention it?