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Earendel, god of rising light and/or a star; Eostre, considered to continue the Proto-Indo-European dawn goddess; Freyr, god of sunshine, among other things; Sól, goddess and personification of the sun; Teiwaz, as a reflex of *Dyeus, was probably originally god of the day-lit sky; Thor, god of lightning, thunder, weather, storms, and the sky
Surya, the Sun god, rides across the sky in a horse-drawn chariot à la Helios and Sol. Aruna, charioteer of Surya, god of the morning Sun. Aryaman, god of the midday Sun. Savitr, god of the twilight Sun, also known as sunrise and sunset. Mitra, often associated with the Sun. Mihir, meaning Sun. Tapati, Sun goddess.
In Greek mythology, Phaethusa or Phaëthusa / ˌ f eɪ ə ˈ θj uː z ə / (Ancient Greek: Φαέθουσα Phaéthousa, "radiance") was a daughter of Helios and Neaera, the personification of the brilliant, blinding rays of the sun. [1] With her twin sister, Lampetia, she guarded the cattle of Thrinacia. She carried a copper staff with which ...
She is the Greek goddess of sight and vision, and by extension the goddess who endowed gold, silver, and gems with their brilliance and intrinsic value. [ 2 ] Her brother-consort is Hyperion , a Titan and god of the sun , and together they are the parents of Helios (the Sun ), Selene (the Moon ), and Eos (the Dawn ).
In Greek mythology, the Heliades (Ancient Greek: Ἡλιάδες means 'daughters of the sun') also called Phaethontides [1] (meaning "daughters of Phaethon") were the daughters of Helios and Clymene, an Oceanid nymph. Heliades by Rupert Bunny, 1920s
In Greek mythology, Nyx (/ n ɪ k s / NIX; [2] Ancient Greek: Νύξ Nýx, , "Night") [3] is the goddess and personification of the night. [4] In Hesiod's Theogony, she is the offspring of Chaos, and the mother of Aether and Hemera (Day) by Erebus (Darkness). By herself, she produces a brood of children which are mainly personifications of ...
God forced to carry the heavens upon his shoulders by Zeus. Presumed to be the god of endurance and astronomy. Also Son of Iapetus. Διώνη (Diṓnē) Dione: Goddess of the oracle of Dodona. Ἥλιος (Hḗlios) Helios: God of the Sun and guardian of oaths. Ἠώς (Ēṓs) Eos: Goddess of the Dawn. Ἐπιμηθεύς (Epimētheús ...
Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec god of the sun and war. In Aztec mythology, Tonatiuh (Nahuatl languages: Ollin Tonatiuh, "Movement of the Sun") was the sun god. The Aztec people considered him the leader of Tollan . He was also known as the fifth sun, because the Aztecs believed that he was the sun that took over when the fourth sun was expelled ...