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    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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    religion, a nature deity is a deity in charge of forces of nature, such as a water deity, vegetation deity, sky deity, solar deity, fire deity, or any other...
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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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    Sun (redirect from Solar diameter)
    In many prehistoric and ancient cultures, the Sun was thought to be a solar deity or other supernatural entity. The Sun has played an important part in...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • Ngalindi 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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    reign of Akhenaten 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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  • 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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    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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    Adityas (category Hindu deities)
    many variations are possible. The set of 12 asanas is dedicated to the solar deity Surya. In some Indian traditions, the positions are each associated with...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Sun temple (redirect from Solar temple)
    (or solar temple) is a building used for religious or spiritual activities, such as prayer and sacrifice, dedicated to the sun or a solar deity. Such...
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  • Sol Invictus is a Roman god identified with Sol (the solar deity in Ancient Roman religion). Sol Invictus may also refer to: Sol Invictus (band), an English...
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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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    Aten (category Solar 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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    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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    Sun goddess of Arinna (category Hattian deities)
    solar deity. Distinguishing the various solar deities in the texts is difficult since most are simply written with the Sumerogram dUTU (Solar deity)...
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    Dazhbog (category Solar gods)
    Dadźbóg, was one of the major gods of Slavic mythology, most likely a solar deity and possibly a cultural hero. He is one of several authentic Slavic gods...
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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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    Sekhmet (category Health deities)
    a warrior goddess as well as goddess of medicine. Sekhmet is also a solar deity, sometimes given the epithet 'the eye of Ra'. She is often associated...
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  • Amsha (redirect from Amshuman (deity))
    (Sanskrit: अंश, romanized: Aṃśa) is a solar deity in Hinduism. He is a member of the adityas, a group of celestial deities who are the children of Kashyapa...
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