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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 Celts.
A sun goddess, Kontebria , was apparently present, her worship later being assimilated into Virgin Mary's Nossa Senhora de Antime figure. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Dii, Lares , Nymphs and Genii were the main types of divinity worshiped, known from the Latin epigraphy , although many names are recorded in the Lusitanian or Celtiberian languages.
The supreme deity in the Japanese pantheon of Shinto is the sun goddess Amaterasu. Azerbaijani historian Aydin Mammadov writes that in the pre-Islamic spiritual culture of the Azerbaijani people, beliefs and rituals associated with the cult of the Sun occupy a special place. The cult of the Sun arose in ancient times as a result of the natural ...
Sulis was the local goddess of the thermal springs that still feed the spa baths at Bath, which the Romans called Aquae Sulis ("the waters of Sulis"). [5] Sulis was likely venerated as a healing divinity, whose sacred hot springs could cure physical or spiritual suffering and illness. [6]
Many of the Greek deities are known from as early as Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age) civilization. This is an incomplete list of these deities [n 1] and of the way their names, epithets, or titles are spelled and attested in Mycenaean Greek, written in the Linear B [n 2] syllabary, along with some reconstructions and equivalent forms in later Greek.
Unnamed God: a Bicolano sun god who fell in love with the mortal, Rosa; refused to light the world until his father consented to their marriage; he afterwards visited Rosa, but forgetting to remove his powers over fire, he accidentally burned Rosa's whole village until nothing but hot springs remained [7] Makilum-sa-bagidan: the Bisaya god of ...
*H₂éwsōs or *H a éusōs (lit. ' the dawn ') is the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European name of the dawn goddess in the Proto-Indo-European mythology. [1]*H₂éwsōs is believed to have been one of the most important deities worshipped by Proto-Indo-European speakers due to the consistency of her characterization in subsequent traditions as well as the importance of the goddess Uṣas in ...
The man threw one into the sky, creating the moon; the woman tossed the other upward and formed the sun. According to a myth from southern Papua New Guinea, a man uncovered the moon as a small bright object buried in the ground. After he had taken it out, it grew and rose high into the sky.