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Sulis, British goddess whose name is related to the common Proto-Indo-European word for "Sun" and thus cognate with Helios, Sól, Sol, and Surya and who retains solar imagery, as well as a domain over healing and thermal springs. Probably the de facto solar deity of the Celts.
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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.
Possible depiction of the Hittite Sun goddess holding a child in her arms from between 1400 and 1200 BC. *Seh₂ul is reconstructed based on the Greek god Helios, the Greek mythological figure Helen of Troy, [4] [5] the Roman god Sol, the Celtic goddess Sulis / Sul/Suil, the North Germanic goddess Sól, the Continental Germanic goddess *Sowilō, the Hittite goddess "UTU-liya", [6] the ...
Saulė (Lithuanian: Saulė, Latvian: Saule) is a solar goddess, the common Baltic solar deity in the Lithuanian and Latvian mythologies. The noun Saulė/Saule in the Lithuanian and Latvian languages is also the conventional name for the Sun and originates from the Proto-Baltic name *Sauliā > *Saulē. [1]
Sol is the personification of the Sun and a god in ancient Roman religion.It was long thought that Rome actually had two different, consecutive sun gods: The first, Sol Indiges (Latin: the deified sun), was thought to have been unimportant, disappearing altogether at an early period.
The supreme deity in the Japanese pantheon of Shinto is the sun goddess Amaterasu. Azerbaijani historian Aydin Mammadov writes that in the pre-Islamic spiritual culture of the Azerbaijani people, beliefs and rituals associated with the cult of the Sun occupy a special place. The cult of the Sun arose in ancient times as a result of the natural ...
Eki, the goddess of the Sun, the daughter of Amalur. Ilargi, the goddess of the Moon, also a daughter of Amalur. Inguma, the malevolent god of dreams and nightmares. Mari, a mother goddess, and wife of the deity Sugaar. Orko, the god of thunder. Sugaar, the god of storms and thunder, and the husband of Mari. He is normally imagined as a dragon ...