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Examples of solar deities from different cultures (from top): Ra, Helios, Tōnatiuh and Amaterasu.
A solar deity or sun deity is a deity who represents the Sun or an aspect thereof. Such deities are usually associated with power and strength. Solar deities and Sun worship can be found throughout most of recorded history in various forms. The Sun is sometimes referred to by its Latin name Sol or by its Greek name Helios. The English word sun derives from Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ.[1]
^In most romance languages the word for "sun" is masculine (e.g. le soleil in French, el sol in Spanish, Il Sole in Italian). In most Germanic languages it is feminine (e.g. Die Sonne in German). In Proto-Indo-European, its gender was inanimate.
solardeity or sun deity is a deity who represents the Sun or an aspect thereof. Such deities are usually associated with power and strength. Solar deities...
A solardeity is a god or goddess who represents the Sun, or an aspect of it, usually by its perceived power and strength. Solardeities and Sun worship...
Astrotheology Nature worship Solardeity List of solardeities List of lunar deities Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lunar deities. Harding, Esther M.,...
to have suggested a pan-Celtic role as a solar goddess. She indeed might have been the de facto solardeity of the Celts.[citation needed] The Welsh Olwen...
religion, a nature deity is a deity in charge of forces of nature, such as a water deity, vegetation deity, sky deity, solardeity, fire deity, or any other...
List of Native American deities, sortable by name of tribe or name of deity. Mythologies of the indigenous peoples of the Americas "Blackfoot Legends...
Egyptian hieroglyphs have a large inventory of solar symbolism because of the central position of solardeities (Ra, Horus, Aten etc.) in ancient Egyptian...
specially-built Giza Solar boat museum, but was subsequently moved to the Grand Egyptian Museum. Ancient Egyptian royal ships Abydos boats Solardeity Trundholm...
divine society, including the solardeity Ra, the mysterious god Amun, and the mother goddess Isis. The highest deity was usually credited with the creation...
Ngalindi Allah as a lunar deity List of solardeities Man in the Moon Moon idol, a type of firedog Moon rabbit Nature worship Solardeity Worship of heavenly...
In many prehistoric and ancient cultures, the Sun was thought to be a solardeity or other supernatural entity. The Sun has played an important part in...
reign of Akhenaten Atum – A creator god and solardeity, first god of the Ennead Bennu – A solar and creator deity, depicted as a heron Geb – An earth god...
one of the most revered deities. Solar cults play an important role in ancient Egyptian religion. Among the Egyptian solardeities are Ra, Horus, Amun, Khepri...
beginning of the day, and, in some cases, become syncretized with similar solardeities. In Egyptian mythology, Tefnut, in part of her being goddess of the...
many variations are possible. The set of 12 asanas is dedicated to the solardeity Surya. In some Indian traditions, the positions are each associated with...
(or solar temple) is a building used for religious or spiritual activities, such as prayer and sacrifice, dedicated to the sun or a solardeity. Such...
war Savitr, the god of the morning sun; associated with Surya Aṃśa, solardeity; associated with Surya Aryaman the god of customs, hospitality, and marriages...
One day, Satrajita, a Yadava nobleman, and a devotee of Surya, the solardeity, was walking along the sea shore, praying ardently, when the god himself...
teaching, every solar system in the universe is the expression of what is termed a "Logos" or "SolarDeity". Ranked below this SolarDeity are seven ministers...
solardeity in Hinduism. He is traditionally one of the major five deities in the Smarta tradition, all of whom are considered as equivalent deities in...
Dadźbóg, was one of the major gods of Slavic mythology, most likely a solardeity and possibly a cultural hero. He is one of several authentic Slavic gods...
appearance of the Kush ram deity, and depictions related to Amun sometimes had small ram's horns, known as the Horns of Ammon. A solardeity in the form of a ram...
Egyptian gods and re-positioned Amun as the preeminent solardeity. Aten is depicted as a solar disc emitting rays terminating in human hands. The word...
combined with other desert and aquatic animals as an enemy of a deity, seemingly a solardeity, who is invisibly hunting in a big rowing vessel. The snake...
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