List of sun deities
The list of sun deities includes religiously revered personifications of the sun or its aspects of light , energy , the course of the sun and the season within the framework of a sun cult . She can be one of many deities and is often the central or supreme deity.
list
- Egyptians in the pharaonic state
- Akkadians / Babylonians / Assyrians from the Sumerian religion
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Aztecs in the Mesoamerican civilization
- Curicaberis was fire and war god
- Huitzilopochtli was god of war and sun, patron saint of Tenochtitlán
- Tonatiuh was god of the sun and associated with the eagle
- Teoyaomicqui
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Germanic peoples in Central Europe and southern Scandinavia
- Sunna / Sol was the personified sun in Norse mythology
- Greeks with the ancient myths
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Hittites as a people of Asia Minor, also in Syria and Canaan
- The sun goddess of Arinna (Ištanu) was the main goddess and wife of the weather god Tarḫunna
- Sun goddess of the earth was goddess of the underworld
- The sun god of heaven was the second worshiped sun deity
- Indians can be proven in written certificates
- Inca as an indigenous urban culture in South America
- Celts as ethnic groups of the Iron Age in Europe
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Maya as indigenous peoples in Central America
- Kinich Ahau was master of the sun
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Muskogee (Creek) ethnic groups in the cultural area of southeast indigenous North America
- Sister Sun was the sun goddess and sister of the moon god Brother Moon
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Nubians as a people in today's Sudan and in southern Egypt
- Mandulis was a sun deity from Lower Nubia
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Persians as ethnic groups with Iranian languages
- Mithra was the personification of the sun
- Hvare Xšaēta or Xwaršēd was the shining sun
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Phoenicians as Semitic people of antiquity
- Melkart as the patron god of shipping and colonization
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Romans
- Apollo was the god of light and healing
- Elagabal , Latin : Elagabalus or Heliogabalus , especially in Emesa (now Homs) in the Roman province of Syria
- Jarchibol was the patron god of the Efca spring , especially in Palmyra
- Malakbel was a sun god, especially in Palmyra
- Mithras was the personification of the sun
- Sol was the sun god of ancient mythology
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Slavs in Eastern Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Southeast Europe
- Svarožić was god of heaven and god father
literature
- Bernhard Hansel : How the sun turned into the sun god. The importance of light for the cultures of the Bronze Age . In: Fundiert (Magazin der FU) 1, 2003, pp. 28–36 ( online )