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In Serbian belief, the Sun is anthropomorphised as a man. [1] Sometimes, the Moon is described as the Sun's brother [2] or uncle, [1] and Venus as his daughter [3] or (in one song) wife, [1] or both stars and Venus as his sisters. [1] [3] Of the Sun's parents, only his mother is ever mentioned. [1]
Horus, god of the sky whose right eye was considered to be the Sun and his left the Moon; Khepri, god of the rising Sun, creation and renewal of life; Ptah, god of craftsmanship, the arts, and fertility, sometimes said to represent the Sun at night; Ra, god of the Sun; Sekhmet, goddess of war and of the Sun, sometimes also plagues and creator ...
Sun, Moon and Morning Star (German: Sonne, Mond und Morgenstern; Greek: Ήλιος, Φεγγάρι και Αυγερινός, romanized: Helios, Phengari kai Augerinós) is a Greek folktale collected and published in 1864 by Austrian consul Johann Georg von Hahn. [1]
The sun, moon, and stars revolve around the peak of Hara Berezaiti. [4] The Moon is however also "bestower, radiant, glorious, possessed of water, possessed of warmth, possessed of knowledge, wealth, riches, discernment, weal, verdure, good, and the healing one". [5] "During the spring, the Moon causes plants to grow up out of the earth". [6 ...
Also, in Baltic mythology, which is most akin to Slavic, Sun is a female deity, Saule, while the Moon is a male one. The same pattern can be observed in the folklore of many Slavic nations, where the Sun is most often identified with mother or a bride, and Moon with father or husband, their children being the stars.
The masculine form 𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓 (ʿAštar) existed among the Canaanite peoples as an astral deity, which is attested by his mention along with the Moon-God Šaggar in the 9th or 7th century BC Dayr ʿAllā inscription, the subject of which is largely the Sun-goddess Šamāš, thus forming a triad of the Sun, Moon, and Venus similarly to ...
Deuteronomy 4:19, 17:3 contains a stern warning against worshipping the Sun, Moon, stars or any of the heavenly host. Relapse into worshipping the host of heaven, i.e. the stars, is said to have been the cause of the fall of the kingdom of Judah in II Kings 17:16.
It contained tables for the movements of the Sun, the Moon, and the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. The work introduced Ptolemaic concepts into Islamic science, and marked a turning point in Islamic astronomy, which had previously concentrated on translating works, but which now began to develop new ideas. [9]