According to Kongo beliefs, the sun’s journey mirrors that of the soul through birth, maturity, death, and rebirth. This belief followed the Kongo people to Brazil—where more than one-in-three enslaved Africans were taken during the Atlantic slave trade. In artworks like this Brazilian caboclo sculpture, Brazilians illustrated the journey of the soul and the sun. Each point in the sculpture marks a moment in the sun’s journey across the sky as it rises, peaks, sets, and returns to the underworld, paralleling the journey of the soul.