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Helios' journey on a chariot during the day and travel with a boat in the ocean at night possibly reflects the Egyptian sun god Ra sailing across the skies in a barque to be reborn at dawn each morning anew; additionally, both gods, being associated with the sun, were seen as the "Eye of Heaven". [23]
Odin, a Norse god (he was born with two eyes, but traded one for a drink from Mimir's well) Ojáncanu, one-eyed giant with a ten-fingered hand, a ten-toed foot, a long beard and red hair of Cantabrian mythology who embodies evil, cruelty and brutality; One-Eye One of three sisters in the Brothers Grimm fairy tale One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes
Jóhonaaʼéí, the Navajo Sun god, known as "The One Who Rules the Day" Kisosen, the Abenaki solar deity, an eagle whose wings opened to create the day and closed to cause the nighttime; Napioa, the Blackfoot deity of the Sun; Tawa, the Hopi creator and god of the Sun; Wi, Lakota god of the Sun
Sekhmet was considered the wife of the god Ptah and mother of his son Nefertum. She was also said to be the mother of the lion-headed war god, Maahes. She was also considered to be the sister of the cat goddess Bastet. [8] The lion-headed goddess Sekhmet is the most represented deity in most Egyptian collections worldwide.
Inti is the ancient Incan sun god. He is revered as the national patron of the Inca state. Although most consider Inti the sun god, he is more appropriately viewed as a cluster of solar aspects, since the Inca divided his identity according to the stages of the sun. [103] Inti is represented as a golden disk with rays and a human face.
When dried and frozen, Deinococcus radiodurans could survive 140,000 grays, or units of X-and gamma-ray radiation, which is 28,000 times greater than the amount of radiation that could kill a person.
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The sun god was one of the principal deities of the Mesopotamian pantheon. [13] In the Early Dynastic god list from Fara, he is the sixth among the deities listed, after Anu, Enlil, Inanna, Enki and Nanna. [14] In later god lists, for example in An = Anum, he and his circle appears between Nanna (Sin) and Ishkur (Adad). [14]