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  2. Sól (Germanic mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Sól (Old Norse: , "Sun") [1] or Sunna (Old High German, and existing as an Old Norse and Icelandic synonym: see Wiktionary sunna, "Sun") is the Sun personified in Germanic mythology. One of the two Old High German Merseburg Incantations, written in the 9th or 10th century CE, attests that Sunna is the sister of Sinthgunt.

  3. List of Germanic deities - Wikipedia

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    A scene from one of the Merseburg Incantations: gods Wodan and Balder stand before the goddesses Sunna, Sinthgunt, Volla, and Friia (Emil Doepler, 1905). In Germanic paganism, the indigenous religion of the ancient Germanic peoples who inhabit Germanic Europe, there were a number of different gods and goddesses.

  4. Sowilō (rune) - Wikipedia

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    The Germanic words for "Sun" have the peculiarity of alternating between -l-and -n-stems, Proto-Germanic *sunnon (Old English sunne, Old Norse, Old Saxon and Old High German sunna) vs. *sōwilō or *sōwulō (Old Norse sól, Gothic sauil, also Old High German forms such as suhil).

  5. List of solar deities - Wikipedia

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    Chal-chal: the Bontok god of the Sun whose son's head was cut off by Kabigat; [8] aided the god Lumawig in finding a spouse [9] Mapatar: the Ifugao sun deity of the sky in charge of daylight [ 10 ] Sun God: the Ibaloi deity who pushed up the skyworld and pushed down the underworld, creating earth, after he was hit by a man's arrow during the ...

  6. List of light deities - Wikipedia

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    Earendel, god of rising light and/or a star; Eostre, considered to continue the Proto-Indo-European dawn goddess; Freyr, god of sunshine, among other things; Sól, goddess and personification of the sun; Teiwaz, as a reflex of *Dyeus, was probably originally god of the day-lit sky; Thor, god of lightning, thunder, weather, storms, and the sky

  7. Proto-Germanic folklore - Wikipedia

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    Meaning 'Sun'. [53] A goddess and personification of the Sun. The variant *Sugelan may have been the original name of the s-rune ᛊ (cf. sigel, sugil), via taboo avoidance. The genitive form *Sunnōn is at the origin of OHG Sunne and Late PGmc *Sunnandag ('Sun-day'); it is also the predecessor to modern English Sun. [54] See Sól for further ...

  8. Solar deity - Wikipedia

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    Inti is the ancient Incan sun god. He is revered as the national patron of the Inca state. Although most consider Inti the sun god, he is more appropriately viewed as a cluster of solar aspects, since the Inca divided his identity according to the stages of the sun. [103] Inti is represented as a golden disk with rays and a human face.

  9. Germanic paganism - Wikipedia

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    The god *Tiwaz may be attested as early as 450-350 BCE on the Negau helmet. [8] Etymologically, his name is related to the Vedic Dyaus and Greek Zeus, indicating an origin in the reconstructed Indo-European sky deity *Dyēus. [194] He is thus the only attested Germanic god who was already important in Indo-European times. [195]