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Olwen, female figure often constructed as originally the Welsh Sun goddess; Sulis, British goddess whose name is related to the common Proto-Indo-European word for "Sun" and thus cognate with Helios, Sól, Sol, and Surya and who retains solar imagery, as well as a domain over healing and thermal springs. Probably the de facto solar deity of the ...
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Solar deities are often thought of as male (and lunar deities as being female) but the opposite has also been the case. [34] In Germanic mythology, the Sun is female, and the Moon is male. Other European cultures that have sun goddesses include the Lithuanians and Latvians (Saule), the Finns (Päivätär, Beiwe) and the related Hungarians.
Unlike Shamash or Utu in Mesopotamia, but like Shams in Arabia, Shapshu was a female solar deity. In addition to attestations in Ugaritic texts, Amarna letter EA 323 uses the Sumerogram for the sun deity, d UTU, as a feminine noun (ša ti-ra-am d UTU, line 19); [8]: 115, n111 given the letter's provenance with Yidya of Ashkelon it may refer to Shapshu.
Hathor was a solar deity, a feminine counterpart to sun gods such as Horus and Ra, and was a member of the divine entourage that accompanied Ra as he sailed through the sky in his barque. [18] She was commonly called the "Golden One", referring to the radiance of the sun, and texts from her temple at Dendera say "her rays illuminate the whole ...
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Centzonhuitznahua, 400 gods of the southern stars; Centzonmimixcoa, 400 gods of the northern stars; Cipactonal, god of the daytime; Citlālicue, goddess who created the stars; Citlalmina, goddess of female stars; Citlalatonac, god of male stars; Tianquiztli, star goddesses; Xiuhtecuhtli, god of fire, day, and heat
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