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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 ...
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).
[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]
In some hymns, the word Surya simply means Sun as an inanimate object, a stone or a gem in the sky (Rigvedic hymns 5.47, 6.51 and 7.63); while in others it refers to a personified deity. [28] [27] Surya is prominently associated with the dawn goddess Ushas and sometimes, he is mentioned as her son or her husband. [29] Lord sun moving in universe
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.
In the Bhagavata Purana, the Adityas are associated with each month of the year, it is a different Aditya who shines as the Sun-God . [14] According to the Linga Purana, [15] the Adityas are twelve in number, again. The Sun Temple of Gwalior is modelled after the famous Konark. The 12 Adityas with solar halos, Udayagiri Caves, c. 401 CE
Some late Roman and Greek poetry and mythography identifies him as a sun-god, equivalent to Roman Sol and Greek Helios. [2] Ares (Ἄρης, Árēs) God of courage, war, bloodshed, and violence. The son of Zeus and Hera, he was depicted as a beardless youth, either nude with a helmet and spear or sword, or as an armed warrior.
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