List of sun deities

Huitzilopochtli , the Aztecs' god of war and sun

The founder of the Japanese imperial family Amaterasu leaving her cave

Relief for Taq-e Bostan : Investiture of Ardashir II with the representation of the Persian deity Mithra behind and Ahura Mazdas in front of the Sassanid great king

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.

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Egyptians in the pharaonic state

Aton was worshiped as a solar disk

Ra / Re was the ancient Egyptian sun god

Chepre symbolizes sunrise and morning sun

As the god of light, Harachte is a sub-form of Horus

Atum was a creator and heavenly deity

Akkadians / Babylonians / Assyrians from the Sumerian religion
- Šamaš was the sun god, god of justice and divination
- Ušiši was the sun god in the land of Ida

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

Germanic peoples in Central Europe and southern Scandinavia
- Sunna / Sol was the personified sun in Norse mythology

Greeks with the ancient myths
- Apollo was god of light
- Helios was the sun god
- Hyperion was a Titan and the father of Helios

Guanches as residents of the Canary Island of Tenerife
- Magec was the sun deity

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

Hurrians as a Bronze Age people of the ancient Orient
- Simige was the sun god of heaven

Indians can be proven in written certificates
- Mitra was the keeper of the cosmic order
- Surya was the personification of sun, warmth and light

Inca as an indigenous urban culture in South America
- Viracocha was a Pan-Andean creator deity
- Inti was the star "sun", not the god

Inuit peoples in arctic Canada and Greenland
- Malina was the sun goddess and sister of the moon god

Japanese as plural connected to Shinto and Buddhism
- Amaterasu personifies the sun and light

Celts as ethnic groups of the Iron Age in Europe
- Lugh was god of light
- Sulis was the sun and salvation deity in Britain

Luwians as an Indo-European people in Asia Minor
- Tiwaz was the sun god

Maya as indigenous peoples in Central America
- Kinich Ahau was master of the sun

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

Nubians as a people in today's Sudan and in southern Egypt
- Mandulis was a sun deity from Lower Nubia

Persians as ethnic groups with Iranian languages
- Mithra was the personification of the sun
- Hvare Xšaēta or Xwaršēd was the shining sun

Phoenicians as Semitic people of antiquity
- Melkart as the patron god of shipping and colonization

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

Slavs in Eastern Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Southeast Europe
- Svarožić was god of heaven and god father

Sumerians in the Mesopotamia region
- Utu was the god of the sun and justice

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 )