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Amun, creator deity sometimes identified as a Sun god. Aten, god of the Sun, the visible disc of the Sun. Atum, the "finisher of the world" who represents the Sun as it sets. Bast, cat goddess associated with the Sun. Hathor, mother of Horus and Ra and goddess of the Sun. Horus, god of the sky whose right eye was considered to be the Sun and ...
In Germanic mythology, the solar deity is Sol; in Vedic, Surya; and in Greek, Helios (occasionally referred to as Titan) and (sometimes) as Apollo. In Proto-Indo-European mythology the sun appears to be a multilayered figure manifested as a goddess but also perceived as the eye of the sky father Dyeus. [ 5]
Solar myths. Solar myth (Latin: solaris «solar») — mythologization of the Sun and its impact on earthly life; usually closely associated with lunar myths. Contrary to the assumptions of ethnographers of the 19th and early 20th centuries, in the "primitive", archaic religious and mythological systems, a particularly revered "cult of the Sun ...
Huītzilōpōchtli. God of war and will, Lord of the Sun and fire. Huitzilopochtli ( Classical Nahuatl: Huītzilōpōchtli, IPA: [wiːt͡siloːˈpoːt͡ʃt͡ɬi] ⓘ) is the solar and war deity of sacrifice in Aztec religion. [3] He was also the patron god of the Aztecs and their capital city, Tenochtitlan.
Surya ( / ˈsuːrjə /; [9] Sanskrit: सूर्य, IAST: Sūrya) is the Sun [10] as well as the solar deity in Hinduism. [10] He is traditionally one of the major five deities in the Smarta tradition, all of whom are considered as equivalent deities in the Panchayatana puja and a means to realise Brahman. [11] Other names of Surya in ...
Shamash ( Akkadian: šamaš [a] ), also known as Utu ( Sumerian: d utu 𒀭𒌓 "Sun" [2]) was the ancient Mesopotamian sun god. He was believed to see everything that happened in the world every day, and was therefore responsible for justice and protection of travelers. As a divine judge, he could be associated with the underworld.
Ra on the solar barque on his daily voyage across the sky (𓇯), adorned with the sun-disk. According to Egyptian myth, when Ra became too old and weary to reign on Earth he relinquished and went to the skies. [8] As the Sun god one of his duties was to carry the Sun cross the sky on his solar barque to light the day.
Ancient Egyptian religion. According to Egyptian mythology, Bennu was a self-created being said to have played a role in the creation of the world. He was said to be the ba (personality component of the soul) of the sun deity Ra, and to have enabled the creative actions of Atum. [ 2] The deity was said to have flown over the waters of Nun that ...