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...
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A solar deity is a god or goddess who represents the Sun, or an aspect of it, usually by its perceived power and strength. Solar deities and Sun worship...
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Astrotheology Nature worship Solar deity List of solar deities List of lunar deities Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lunar deities. Harding, Esther M.,...
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to have suggested a pan-Celtic role as a solar goddess. She indeed might have been the de facto solar deity of the Celts.[citation needed] The Welsh Olwen...
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List of Native American deities, sortable by name of tribe or name of deity. Mythologies of the indigenous peoples of the Americas "Blackfoot Legends...
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Egyptian hieroglyphs have a large inventory of solar symbolism because of the central position of solar deities (Ra, Horus, Aten etc.) in ancient Egyptian...
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specially-built Giza Solar boat museum, but was subsequently moved to the Grand Egyptian Museum. Ancient Egyptian royal ships Abydos boats Solar deity Trundholm...
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divine society, including the solar deity Ra, the mysterious god Amun, and the mother goddess Isis. The highest deity was usually credited with the creation...
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one of the most revered deities. Solar cults play an important role in ancient Egyptian religion. Among the Egyptian solar deities are Ra, Horus, Amun, Khepri...
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literal sun disk. Atum – A creator god and solar deity, first god of the Ennead Bennu – A solar and creator deity, depicted as a heron Geb – An earth god...
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Ata Allah as a lunar deity List of solar deities Man in the Moon Moon idol, a type of firedog Moon rabbit Nature worship Solar deity Worship of heavenly...
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Adityas (category Hindu deities)
Āditya Sanskrit pronunciation: [aːd̪ɪt̪jɐ]) refers to a group of major solar deities, who are the offspring of the goddess Aditi. The name Aditya, in the...
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Sun (redirect from Solar diameter)
In many prehistoric and ancient cultures, the Sun was thought to be a solar deity or other supernatural entity. In the early first millennium BC, Babylonian...
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prayed to their clan deity Surya (a Hindu solar deity), after whom the dynasty formed its namesake. Along with the Lunar dynasty, the Solar dynasty comprises...
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beginning of the day, and, in some cases, become syncretized with similar solar deities. In Egyptian mythology, Tefnut, in part of her being goddess of the...
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Puja collectively. During Chhath Puja, prayers are dedicated to the solar deity, Surya: to show gratitude for bestowing the bounties of life on Earth...
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Amun (redirect from Egyptian deity Amon)
Amun was a major ancient Egyptian deity who appears as a member of the Hermopolitan Ogdoad. Amun was attested from the Old Kingdom together with his wife...
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Surya (category Rigvedic deities)
solar deity in Hinduism. He is traditionally one of the major five deities in the Smarta tradition, all of whom are considered as equivalent deities in...
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Xihe (Chinese: 羲和; pinyin: Xīhé; Wade–Giles: Hsi-ho), was a solar deity in Chinese mythology. One of the two wives of Di Jun (along with Changxi), she...
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*Ηwelénā, from a pre-Hellenic or late Proto-Indo-European *Swelénā (a solar deity), ultimately derived from the Indo-European root *swel- (to shine, warm)...
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symbolizes the solar deities. As for the eyelids and pupils, they are surrounded by lines. The neck is decorated with a Syrian deities necklace. We also...
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Syamantaka (section Gift from the solar deity)
One day, Satrajita, a Yadava nobleman, and a devotee of Surya, the solar deity, was walking along the sea shore, praying ardently, when the god himself...
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war Savitr, the god of the morning sun; associated with Surya Aṃśa, solar deity; associated with Surya Aryaman the god of customs, hospitality, and marriages...
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and fire and the creator of the Hawaiian Islands. Solar deity Mother Earth List of nature deities Noth, Martin (1962). Exodus: A Commentary. p. 109....
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teaching, every solar system in the universe is the expression of what is termed a "Logos" or "Solar Deity". Ranked below this Solar Deity are seven ministers...
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Aten (category Falcon deities)
Egyptian gods and re-positioned Amun as the pre-eminent solar deity. Aten is depicted as a solar disc emitting rays terminating in human hands. The word...
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Proto-Indo-European mythology (redirect from List of Proto-Indo-European deities)
sons the Divine Twins; and *Seh₂ul and *Meh₁not, a solar deity and moon deity, respectively. Some deities, like the weather god *Perkʷunos or the herding-god...
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Apep (category Dragon deities)
combined with other desert and aquatic animals as an enemy of a deity, seemingly a solar deity, who is invisibly hunting in a big rowing vessel. The snake...
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Horus (redirect from Heru (Egyptian deity))
the earliest Egyptian deities, Wadjet, who later became associated with Bastet, Mut, and Hathor as well. Wadjet was a solar deity and this symbol began...
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as the 'Indian Janus' by 18th-century scholar William Jones. Pushan, solar deity and psychopomp responsible for marriages, journeys, roads, the feeding...
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