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Jóhonaaʼéí, the Navajo Sun god, known as "The One Who Rules the Day" Kisosen, the Abenaki solar deity, an eagle whose wings opened to create the day and closed to cause the nighttime; Napioa, the Blackfoot deity of the Sun; Tawa, the Hopi creator and god of the Sun; Wi, Lakota god of the Sun
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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.
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).
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
However, no other god wants the task of being the Sun. The gods decide that the fifth, and possibly last, sun must offer up his life as a sacrifice in fire. Two gods are chosen: Tecciztecatl and Nanahuatzin. The former is chosen to serve as the Sun because he is wealthy and strong, while the latter will serve as the Moon because he is poor and ill.
The Greek sun god had various bynames or epithets, which over time in some cases came to be considered separate deities associated with the Sun. Among these are: Acamas (/ ɑː ˈ k ɑː m ɑː s /; ah-KAH-mahss; Άκάμας, "Akàmas"), meaning "tireless, unwearying", as he repeats his never-ending routine day after day without cease.
Both horses are mentioned in Gylfaginning and Grímnismál and their names are frequently associated with descriptions of the Sun. [4] In Nordic mythology, gods govern the passage of days, nights, and seasons, [5] and shape the Sun from a spark of the flame Muspelheim, but the Sun stands still without a driver.