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Apollo Belenus was a healing and sun god. [54] Apollo Cunomaglus ("hound lord"). A title given to Apollo at a shrine at Nettleton Shrub, Wiltshire. May have been a god of healing. Cunomaglus himself may originally have been an independent healing god. [55] Apollo Grannus. Grannus was a healing spring god, later equated with Apollo. [56] [57] [58]
Chariot fitting representing Usil, 500–475 BCE, Hermitage Museum. Usil is the Etruscan god of the sun, shown to be identified with Apulu ().His iconic depiction features Usil rising out of the sea, with a fireball in either outstretched hand, on an engraved Etruscan bronze mirror in late Archaic style, formerly on the Roman antiquities market. [1]
The theonym Belenus (or Belinus), which is a latinized form of the Gaulish Belenos (or Belinos), appears in some 51 inscriptions.Although most of them are located in Aquileia (Friuli, Italy), the main centre of his cult, the name has also been found in places where Celtic speakers lived in ancient times, including in Gaul, Noricum, Illyria, Britain and Ireland.
The Scythian "Ares," the god of war; Gaiϑāsūra, who might have been associated with the Sun; Artimpasa, a more complex goddess who was a patron of fertility and had power over sovereignty and the priestly force; An eighth Scythian deity mentioned by Herodotus was Thagimasadas, who was worshipped only by the tribe of the Royal Scythians.
The Greek name Φοίβη Phoíbē is the feminine form of Φοῖβος Phoîbos meaning "pure, bright, radiant", an epithet given to Apollo as a sun-god. [2] [3] [4] Phoebe was also an epithet of Artemis as a moon-goddess.
[379] Apollo was associated with the Sun as early as the fifth century BC, though widespread conflation between him and the Sun god was a later phaenomenon. [380] The earliest certain reference to Apollo being identified with Helios appears in the surviving fragments of Euripides' play Phaethon in a speech near the end.
In ancient Greek religion, the sun deity was the male god Helios, [234] who in later times was syncretized with Apollo. [235] In ancient Roman culture, Sunday was the day of the sun god. In paganism, the Sun was a source of life. It was the center of a popular cult among Romans, who would stand at dawn to catch the first rays of sunshine as ...
A partially reconstructed temple of Apollo Grannus at Faimingen (Phoebiana) near Lauingen. Grannus (also Granus, Mogounus, [1] and Amarcolitanus [2]) was a Celtic deity of classical antiquity. He was regularly identified with Apollo as Apollo Grannus and frequently worshipped in conjunction with Sirona, and sometimes with Mars and other deities ...