9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook sun god Thesaurus Wikipedia n.Mythology A god that personifies the sun. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. ...
pantheon all the gods of a particular culture trickster mischievous figure appearing in various forms in the folktales and mythology of many different peoples In some mythologies, sun gods have healing powers. Shamash, the solar god of the Babylonian* people of the ancient Near East, was know...
Lord of the East, the sun God of Chinese mythology— 东君 Ormazda, the Sun God of the Zoroastrians and Manicheans— 祆 也可见: sun名— 阳名 · 日名 · 曝名 · 红日名 · 白日名 · 阳宗名 God名— 神名 · 主名 · 上帝名 ...
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In Hindu mythology the Sun has been considered as one out of the five main gods (Panch-Devas) i.e.Brahma (the Creator), Vishnu (the Preserver), Shiva (the Destroyer), Ganesha (son of Shiva) and Surya (the Sun). The presence of Sun temples in different parts of India, the most ...
Japanese mythology, body of stories compiled from oral traditions concerning thelegends, gods, ceremonies, customs, practices, and historical accounts of the Japanese people. Most of the surviving Japanesemythsare recorded in theKojiki(compiled 712; “Records of Ancient Matters”) and theNihon shoki(...
Mithra, in ancient Indo-Iranian mythology, the god of light, whose cult spread from India in the east to as far west as Spain, Great Britain, and Germany. (See Mithraism.) The first written mention of the Vedic Mitra dates to 1400 bc. His worship spread
In Hindu mythology, they fight the demons of darkness. There may be more than one god of the sun. The Egyptians differentiated among the aspects of the sun and had several gods associated with it: Khepri for the rising sun, Atum for the setting sun, and Re for the noontime sun, who...
Mortal your lot--not mortal your desire; this, to which even the gods may not aspire, in ignorance you claim. Though their own powers may please the gods, not one can take his stand above my chariot's flaming axle-tree save I. Even he whose hand hurls thunderbolts, the mighty Lord ...
Apollo has been called the "gentleman of Olympus", the most quintessentially Greek of all the Greek gods. In sculptures and frescoes he is invariably portrayed as beautiful and youthful; rarely clothed, his body is athletic and of those perfect proportions so idealised by the Greeks. But the ...