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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 synonymous with Grian; Olwen, female figure often constructed as originally the Welsh Sun goddess
Sun worship was prevalent in ancient Egyptian religion. The earliest deities associated with the Sun are all goddesses: Wadjet, Sekhmet, Hathor, Nut, Bast, Bat, and Menhit. First Hathor, and then Isis, give birth to and nurse Horus and Ra, respectively. Hathor the horned-cow is one of the 12 daughters of Ra, gifted with joy and is a wet-nurse ...
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The Sun goddess of Arinna, also sometimes identified as Arinniti or as Wuru(n)šemu, [1] is the chief Goddess of Hittite mythology. Her companion is the weather god Tarḫunna . She protected the Hittite kingdom and was called the "Queen of all lands."
The Sun goddess of the Earth (Hittite: taknaš d UTU, Luwian: tiyamaššiš Tiwaz) was the Hittite goddess of the underworld.Her Hurrian equivalent was Allani and her Sumerian/Akkadian equivalent was Ereshkigal, both of which had a marked influence on the Hittite goddess from an early date. [1]
Saulė is portrayed dancing in her gilded shoes on a silver hill and her fellow Baltic goddess Aušrinė is said to dance on a stone for the people on the first day of summer. [17] [18] In Lithuania, the Sun (identified as female) rides a car towards her husband, the Moon, "dancing and emitting fiery sparks" on the way. [19]
Furthermore, a scholium on those lines wrote ἐκ Θείας καὶ Ὑπερίονος ὁ Ἥλιος, ἐκ δὲ Ἡλίου ὁ χρυσός, "The Sun came from Theia and Hyperion, and from the Sun came gold", [11] denoting a special connection of Theia, the goddess of sight and brilliance, with gold as the mother of Helios the sun. [12 ...
Thus, Nuha was the name of the sun goddess in Northern Arabia, while the name of the sun goddess in Southern Arabia was Shams. As Nuha, Shams was also worshipped in a trinity alongside the male gods of the Moon and Venus. In Saba', the sun goddess Shams was worshipped [2] [3] with the god of the planet Venus, Athtar, and Almaqah, the