Sky deity who represents the Sun.
1Baldur, son of Odin, and representing in Norse mythology the sun god.
2In the Near East, he is a lesser sun god called Mitra.
3We find a sun god, under different names, in every Oriental country.
4Hindu sun god who forms the sacred triad with Brahma and Shiva.
5Ra is a sun god and Supreme God of the Heliopolis pantheon.
6Jonah, too, was a sun god, and was swallowed by a fish.
7Early Hebrew sun god and maybe ultimately the origin of the term Sabbat.
8Phoebus: Apollo, the Greek sun god, hence in poetry the sun.
9In another legend-thatof Etana-themother serpent, addressing the sun god, Shamash, says:
10He was a sun god, she said, and a famous poet, very pretty.
11Initially a minor sun god of the southmost areas of Egypt.
12Constantine saw himself as both Galilean and as incarnation of the sun god.
13Alexander after the obvious patron, and Helios after the sun god.
14Their sun god, Sachi, appears to have been merged in Shamash.
15Cursing Apollo, Syphilus smashed the sun god's temples and started worshipping someone else.
16So Heyerdahl built the Kon-Tiki and named it after the pre-Inca sun god.