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Sól (Old Norse: , "Sun") [1] or Sunna (Old High German, and existing as an Old Norse and Icelandic synonym: see Wiktionary sunna, "Sun") is the Sun personified in Germanic mythology. One of the two Old High German Merseburg Incantations , written in the 9th or 10th century CE, attests that Sunna is the sister of Sinthgunt .
Goddess Thần Mặt Trời, [39] the embodiment of the sun, the daughter of Ông Trời, old sister of Thần Mặt Trăng, she and her sister have a husband who is a bear, when the Bear God wants to meet them, a solar or lunar eclipse will appear.
A scene from one of the Merseburg Incantations: gods Wodan and Balder stand before the goddesses Sunna, Sinthgunt, Volla, and Friia (Emil Doepler, 1905). In Germanic paganism, the indigenous religion of the ancient Germanic peoples who inhabit Germanic Europe, there were a number of different gods and goddesses.
The theonym Sulevia, which is more widespread and probably unrelated to Sulis, [80] is sometimes taken to have suggested a pan-Celtic role as a solar goddess. [72] The Welsh Olwen has at times been considered a vestige of the local sun goddess, in part due to the possible etymological association [81] with the wheel and the colors gold, white ...
Similarly, Wolfgang Beck analysed her as a subordinate goddess from Sunna's retinue, a kind of "situation goddess", based on her unique appearance in the sources. [8] Friedrich Kauffmann grouped Sinhtgunt as a valkyrie in the 19th century, because the elements -gund and -hild appear frequently in their names. [9]
Sunna has multiple meanings. It may refer to: Sunna, a goddess of the sun in Germanic religion and mythology; Sunna (band), a British rock band; Sunna (Saxon chief), a Saxon chief; Sunna Davíðsdóttir (born 1985), Icelandic mixed martial artist; Kim Sunna (born 1987), Swedish professional ice hockey player; Sunna, an Arian bishop of Merida
A depiction of Máni and Sól (1895) by Lorenz Frølich.. Máni (Old Norse: ; "Moon" [1]) is the Moon personified in Germanic mythology.Máni, personified, is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson.
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."