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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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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]
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 ...
A section of scholars translate the second part, -suelta, as related to the Sun. Roux in 1952, [10] Olmstead in 1994, [11] and Polomé in 1997 [12] maintained that the proto-Indo-European root, *swel-'swelter', found in Indo-European words denoting 'sun', was inherited into Gaulish. Thus, Xavier Delamarre asserts that the name means 'sun-warmed ...
The sun in Insular Celtic culture is assumed to have been feminine, [72] [73] and several goddesses have been proposed as possibly solar in character. [74] In Continental Celtic culture, the sun gods, like Belenus, Grannus, and Lugus, were masculine. [75] [76] In Irish, the name of the Sun, Grian, is feminine.
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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.