List of sun deities
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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.
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 )