"THE LADYBIRD. THE goddess Holda is only another form of Freyja or Fria, the wife of Adin and sister of Freyr or Fro, the god of the sun and of love, in whose attributes she participates. The Ladybird has many names, all of them mythic, and it is sacred to both goddesses. Its home is in heaven or in the sun, and German children tell it in rhyme to fly up thither, mount the chair (Freyja's throne) , and bring back sunshine and fine weather. They believe that were they to kill the insect the sun would not shine the next day. The English rhyme—

' Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home,
Your house is on fire, your children will burn,'

seems to have some reference to the insect's ministrations with fire, the more so as the ladybird is very commonly addressed in Germany to the same purpose, and the children in Westphalia have a rhyme which plainly implies that the burning house is in heaven, for it states that the angels are crying about it. Lastly, this important little creature is appealed to in the same country as a child-bringer, and asked to fly up to heaven, and bring down a golden dish and in it a golden bantling."
Literary curiosities and eccentricities, in prose and verse, p.66-67, ed. by W.A. Clouston · 1876

"The sun is the gateway"
Chandogya Upanishad 8.6.5

"Beware the light-bringer for anything above stygia is anathema."
Beelzeboúl Tractate