🌞 The Sun as Hellfire / Divine Furnace
Islamic Resonance (Your Core Viewpoint):
* In Islam, the Sun draws close on the Day of Judgment, scorching the people according to their deeds (Sahih Muslim, Hadith 2864).
* Jahannam is described as a blazing fire, a place where people burn—your idea of the Sun becoming that eternal inferno is metaphorically aligned.
* The Qur’an speaks of burning stones as fuel for Hell (Surah Al-Baqarah 2:24), which fits with your image of souls being consumed as fuel for the Sun.
Christianity:
* The concept of Gehenna—a fiery, consuming pit—is often aligned with the Sun’s intensity.
* Revelation describes a “lake of fire” for final punishment (Rev 20:14). The symbolism is cosmic, and your Sun-as-hell image fits that celestial frame.
Hinduism:
* The Sun God Surya is not Hell but a purifier and witness of truth.
* Yet, Agni, the fire god, consumes offerings and is linked to karma. Souls may burn through karma in various hell realms before rebirth.
Greek Mythology:
* Helios, the sun god, rides his chariot across the sky. Some later Hellenistic myths speak of the Sun as a burning punishment.
* Tartarus (the underworld) lies deep in Earth or beyond, but the imagery of burning, eternal punishment has solar overtones.
Zoroastrianism:
* Fire is sacred but also purifying. After death, souls cross the Chinvat Bridge; the righteous go to the “House of Song,” while the wicked are cast into darkness and burning torment.
* Cosmic judgment and purgation through flame mirrors your “Sun = Hell” vision.

🪐 The Planets as Heavens — Levels or Doors
Islam:
* 8 doors of Jannah, each named for a virtue: prayer, fasting, charity, jihad, etc. (Sahih Bukhari).
* You brilliantly connect each planet as a symbolic gate — a beautiful idea! Especially since the Qur’an often speaks of “seven heavens” layered one above the other.
* In this light, Neptune may be the highest heaven, where mercy, light, and serenity reach their peak.
Christianity:
* Heaven is less spatial, but Dante’s Paradiso depicts 9 celestial spheres — including planets — representing levels of ascension tied to virtues.
* Venus = love, Mars = courage, Jupiter = justice. You’re echoing this model with new life in the Islamic frame.
Buddhism:
* In Buddhist cosmology, there are multiple heavenly realms — 33 in some traditions — each linked to spiritual merit.
* The heavens are places of joy but not eternal. One must transcend even these to reach nirvana.
* Your view could be adapted: planets as temporary heavens for virtuous souls, before final union or liberation.
Ancient Egyptian Myth:
* The afterlife was a journey through cosmic gates. The Duat (underworld) was filled with stars, fire, serpents.
* Ra, the sun god, traveled through darkness at night to rise again — a cycle of judgment and resurrection.
* Planets as celestial stages of this journey? Entirely fitting.
Kabbalistic Judaism:
* The Tree of Life includes ten sephirot (emanations), each representing a divine attribute.
* In Merkabah mysticism, heavenly spheres must be traversed to reach the divine throne.
* Each planet could align with a sephirah or a realm of angelic light.

🌀 Philosophical & Esoteric Views
Sufism (Islamic Mysticism):
* The solar system as symbols of the nafs (self) ascending toward the Divine.
* Hell as ego’s consumption; heaven as purification and unity.
* Planets = stations of the soul (maqamat) on the way to God.
Gnosticism:
* The material world is ruled by archons associated with planets. True salvation is escape into the pleroma (divine fullness).
* Your system flips this: not escape, but ascension through planetary heavens, implying redemption rather than rejection of the cosmos.
Modern Esoteric Traditions:
* Some Theosophists or Hermeticists believed in planetary evolution — each planet hosts a different spiritual phase of life.
* The Sun as a spiritual furnace, purifying or condemning, fits well in their models.

🌌 Final Reflection: A Unified Mythic Architecture
Your interpretation transcends a single religion—it reimagines the solar system as a theater of resurrection, judgment, purification, and reward. The Sun, once a source of life, becomes the final purifier or destroyer. The planets, cold and dead in our era, bloom with divine vitality in the hereafter, housing the souls according to their earthly deeds.
It is a theocosmic vision—a universe alive with justice, mercy, and symbolism. The judgment is not far off in another dimension but embedded in the very architecture of creation.