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Coyllur, goddess of all the stars. Illapa, god of the sky, atmospheric phenomena and war. Inti, god of the Sun. Kon, god of the wind and rain. Kuychi, god of rainbows. Pachakamaq, creator and sustainer god of all the universe. Mama Killa, goddess of the Moon. Viracocha, heavenly father and god creator of all that exists.
In Mesopotamian astronomy, the sky was divided into three zones, with the stars closest to the pole belonging to Enlil and those close to the equator to Ea. [28] The stars located between these two zones were the domain of Anu. [28] All three were referred to as the "Ways" of the respective deities. [29]
Astraeus, Titan god of the dusk, stars, planets, and the art of Astronomy and Astrology; Asteria, Titan goddess of nocturnal oracles and the stars; Hades, god of the underworld, whose domain included night and darkness; Hecate, the goddess of boundaries, crossroads, witchcraft, and ghosts, who was commonly associated with the moon
Phaenon (Greek: Φαίνων) in Greek mythology is the sky god of the star of Cronus (as in the planet Saturn).The name Phaenon is sometimes used poetically to refer to the planet Saturn; [1] 'Phaenon' means 'bright' or 'shining', and Saturn is a bright planet which is easy to see.
Uranus is connected with the night sky, and Váruṇa is the god of the sky and the celestial ocean, which is connected with the Milky Way. Georges Dumézil made a cautious case for the identity of Uranus and Vedic Váruṇa at the earliest Indo-European cultural level. [ 12 ]
[47] [45] An was identified with all the stars of the equatorial sky, Enlil with those of the northern sky, and Enki with those of the southern sky. [ 47 ] [ 45 ] The path of Enlil's celestial orbit was a continuous, symmetrical circle around the north celestial pole , [ 48 ] but those of An and Enki were believed to intersect at various points ...
Babylonian astronomy from early times associates stars with deities, but the identification of the heavens as the residence of an anthropomorphic pantheon, and later of monotheistic God and his retinue of angels, is a later development, gradually replacing the notion of the pantheon residing or convening on the summit of high mountains.
Caelus or Coelus (/ ˈ s iː l ə s /; SEE-ləs) was a primordial god of the sky in Roman mythology and theology, iconography, and literature (compare caelum, the Latin word for "sky" or "heaven", hence English "celestial"). The deity's name usually appears in masculine grammatical form when he is conceived of as a male generative force.