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  2. List of solar deities - Wikipedia

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    Alaunus, Gaulish god of the Sun, healing, and prophecy; Belenos, Gaulish god of the Sun; Brighid, Irish sun goddess; Étaín, Irish Sun goddess; Grannus, god associated with spas, healing thermal and mineral springs, and the Sun; Lugh, Sun god as well as a writing and warrior god; Macha, "Sun of the womanfolk" and occasionally considered ...

  3. Solar deity - Wikipedia

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    Later another sun god was established in the eighteenth dynasty on top of the other solar deities, before the "aberration" was stamped out and the old pantheon re-established. When male deities became associated with the sun in that culture, they began as the offspring of a mother (except Ra, King of the Gods who gave birth to himself).

  4. Helios - Wikipedia

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    [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. [101]

  5. Category:Solar gods - Wikipedia

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    Male gods associated with the Sun. Subcategories. This category has the following 15 subcategories, out of 15 total. A. Adityas (3 C, 12 P) Amun (5 C, 21 P) Apollo (6 ...

  6. List of light deities - Wikipedia

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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

  7. Khepri - Wikipedia

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    The scarab god was however included in the creationist theory of Heliopolis and later Thebes. [13] Often, Khepri and another solar deity, Atum, were seen as aspects of Ra: Khepri represented the morning sun, Ra was the midday sun, and Atum represented the evening sun. [6]

  8. Solar myths - Wikipedia

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    Solar myth (Latin: solaris «solar») — mythologization of the Sun and its impact on earthly life; usually closely associated with lunar myths. Contrary to the assumptions of ethnographers of the 19th and early 20th centuries, in the "primitive", archaic religious and mythological systems, a particularly revered "cult of the Sun" is not observed.

  9. The Sun in culture - Wikipedia

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    Tonatiuh, the Aztec god of the sun, [19] was closely associated with the practice of human sacrifice. [19] The sun goddess Amaterasu is the most important deity in the Shinto religion, [20] [21] and she is believed to be the direct ancestor of all Japanese emperors. [20]