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	Sol
		Sol is the name or personification of the Sun, as originally used in Latin, but thought to be derived from a Sanskrit word.
		The term sol is also used by NASA engineers, in unmanned Mars mission operations, to refer to a solar day on Mars.
		Sol, the Roman god of the sun, was equivalent to the Greek god Helios.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/so/Sol.html (199 words)

	Sol - Tardis - A Wikia wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Sol was also adopted by the Romans, sometimes as 'Sulis', as the equivalent of the Greek god Helios.
		Sol is an ordinary G2 star (a G type star being a star absorbing strong metallic lines in its spectrum) one of more than 100 billion stars in Mutter's Spiral.
		Sol, along with the re-populated Earth, is eventually moved two light years by the Time Lords, causing a 'devastating fireball' which may have originated from Sol herself.
	tardis.wikia.com /wiki/Sol (358 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaedia - Greek &. Roman Mythology (N-Z)
		In Greek mythology, Peirithous was a King of the Lapiths and a son of Ixion and Dia.
		In Greek and Roman mythology, the Styx was the principal river in the underworld.
		In Greek mythology, Xuthus was a son of Helen by the nymph Orseis.
	www.fas.org /news/reference/probert/D1B.HTM (3810 words)

	Sol
		Sol is the name or personification of the Sun, as originally used in Latin.
		The term sol is also used by planetary astronomers and NASA engineers to refer to the duration of a solar day on the planet Mars.
		sol is also the name of the Klondike solitaire card game which is part of the GNOME desktop environment.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/s/so/sol.html (295 words)

	Sol - Roman Mythology - Ancinet-Mythology.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Sol was the sun god of ancient Roman religion and mythology.
		Sol originated in Mesopotamian mythology and was introduced in 220 CE as Sol Invictus to the Romans by the emperor Heliogabalus.
		Sol was worshiped in Rome until Christianity took hold.
	www.ancient-mythology.com /roman/sol.php (41 words)

	Sol
		He was possibly worshipped as Sol Indiges in his temple on the Quirinalis.
		A second temple was located at the Circus Maximus, near the race-tracks, where he was considered to be the protector of the four-in-hands which joined the races.
		The emperor Heliogabalus imported the cult of Sol Invictus ("the invincible sun") from Syria and Sol was made god of the state.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/s/sol_2.html (90 words)

	More From Norse Mythology
		Ginnungagap Ginnungagap ("seeming emptiness"), in the cosmology of Norse mythology, is the primordial void separating Niflheim and Muspell, the land of eternal ice and snow and the land of eternal heat and flame.
		Sol In Norse mythology, Sol is the sun goddess, daughter of Mundilfari.
		Sleipnir According to Norse mythology, the wall that enclosed Asgard was destroyed during a war between the Vanir and the Aesir, leaving the gods vulnerable to an attack by the giants.
	www.unsolvedmysteries.com /usm289402.html (3929 words)

	Sol
		In Norse mythology, Sol is the sun goddess, daughter of Mundilfari.
		Sol rides through the sky in a chariot pulled by the horses Alsvid ("all swift") and Arvak ("early riser").
		Article "Sol" created on 03 March 1997; last modified on 27 December 1998 (Revision 2).
	www.pantheon.org /articles/s/sol.html (137 words)

	Appendix - Mythology of Olympia
		Now she drew herself further away and turned her face away from Sol, so that for weeks at a time Luna could not be seen at all in the night sky.
		In the nights following Sol's rape of his daughter, Tor could be seen rushing across the sky, tearing open a great wound in the Heavens in his haste to be with his father.
		But Sol refused to look upon Tor, and cast him down instead upon Olympia, where he landed with a great crash that shook the mountains and caused the seas to rise up in angry protest.
	www.pbm.com /oly/tag/Manual/Appendix_-_Mythology_of_Olympia.html (1208 words)

	Helios Apollo Hyperion Sol the Sun
		In Scandinavia Sol was the goddess of the Sun and the daughter of Mundilfari, a giant who also fathered Mani, god of the Moon (In Scandinavia, North Germany and England the Sun is considered feminine and the Moon masculine).
		In Norse mythology Sol and Mani, the Sun and the Moon, were chased by the wolf brothers Skoll and Hati.
		Although the Norse god Sol was also called Sunna or Sunne, the Sun itself was known as Alfrodull, or "Glory-of-Elves." The ancient Viking poems prophesy that on or after doomsday the Sun will bear a daughter who will be the new Sun, the luminous world to come.
	www.myastrologybook.com /Helios-Apollo-Hyperion-Sol-Sun.htm (716 words)

	Sol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sol (IPA: [sɑl]) was the name or personification of the Sun (in Latin), and can also refer to sunlight, sunbeam, or east (the direction where the Sun rises).
		A mean Martian solar day, or "sol", is 24 hours, 39 minutes, and 35.244 seconds [2].
		Also, Sól was the name of a sun goddess in Norse mythology, with the s-rune ᛋ named after her.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sol (363 words)

	Sol Suite
		Sol is Latin for: sunlight, sunbeam, east (the direction where the sun rises, a specially at the vernal equinox, the New Year's Day in the Roman calendar).
		Sol is the name of two Indo-European sun gods.
		One is the male sun god of Roman mythology, and the other one is the female goddess of Germanic mythology.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/188/sol-suite.html (463 words)

	sol - definition by dict.die.net
		The silver sol is the unit of value, and is worth about 68 cents.
		G is the seventh letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant.
		It was also originally used as the treble clef, and has gradually changed into the character represented in the margin.
	dict.die.net /sol (309 words)

	sol design :: shine the light on your company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Sol Design is a creative, full-service design firm in Sydney, Australia.
		Sol is a word that simply means sun in a variety of languages, including Middle English, Medieval Latin, Spanish and Swedish.
		Sol was also the sun god of Ancient Roman mythology.
	www.sol.com.au (194 words)

	16 Cygni 2?
		Despite its presumed greater age, the star may be slightly more enriched (112 percent) as Sol with elements heavier than hydrogen ("metallicity"), based on its abundance of iron (Friel et al, 1993).
		Despite its presumed greater age, Star B may be more enriched (123 percent) than Sol with elements heavier than hydrogen ("metallicity"), based on its abundance of iron (exoplanets.org).
		While the mythology of Constellation Cygnus is not known with certainty, the Greek myth of Leda and the Swan involves Zeus, the King of the Gods, who fell in love with Leda and ravaged her disguised as a swan.
	www.solstation.com /stars2/16cygni2.htm (1400 words)

	Helios
		In earlier Greek mythology, the sun was personified as a deity called Hêlios (Greek for "the sun"), whom Homer equates with the sun titan Hyperion.
		On the Quirinalis, he was worshipped as Sol Indiges.
		His epithet Phoebus 'shining' was later applied by Latin poets to the sun-god Sol also, perhaps from such connections as well as from its obvious appropriateness.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Mythology/Helios.html (956 words)

	Venus - Memory Alpha - A Wikia wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Venus (or Sol II) is the second planet in the Sol system, and is named after the Roman goddess of love in Earth (Roman) mythology.
		Orbiting Sol at a distance of 0.72 astronomical units and having a dense carbon dioxide atmosphere creating a pressure of 95 bars on its surface, Venus suffers from a runaway greenhouse effect resulting in temperatures of up to 763 Kelvin.
		In 2364, when the USS Enterprise-D crew was infected with polywater intoxication, an officer serving in the shuttlebay delivered an inappropriate limerick to other crewmembers involving a woman and Venus.
	memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Venus (310 words)

	RealMagick Article: The Pagan Origins Of Christian Mythology by Brice C. Smith
		In ancient Iranian mythology, Ahura Mazda was the lord of light and wisdom, originally an equal to Mithra the god of light and justice, was elevated to the supreme being by the prophet Zoroaster.
		Due to the vast differences in writing systems, the Egyptian religion did not have as strong an influence on the style of early Christian writings, but the influence of the characters and the magic associated with each is even more pronounced than it is for Mithraism.
		Perhaps the most important goddess of all Egyptian mythology, Isis assumed, during the course of Egyptian history, the attributes and functions of virtually every other important goddess in the land.
	realmagick.com /articles/51/1551.html (4123 words)

	SOL - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Sol, sol, sol : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
		Sol, sol : UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
		Sol, sol : Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=SOL (451 words)

	solar
		Finally, while Müller understood that his methodology had to be rooted in careful linguistic analysis, many other proponents of the theory argued wildly by analogy.
		Even careful linguistic analysis had limited success, and solar mythology came to be dominated by analogists.
		Comparative mythology, as solar mythology originally and properly was called, passed out of favor.
	www.unlv.edu /faculty/jmstitt/Eng480/solar.html (772 words)

	sol - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Martian day—that is, the time it takes Mars to rotate once on its axis—is 24 hours and 37 minutes long.
		Helios, in Greek mythology, the ancient sun god, son of the Titans Hyperion and Thea, and brother of Selene, goddess of the moon, and Eos, goddess...
		- Roman Sun god: in Roman mythology, the god of the Sun.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /sol.html (142 words)

	sol - Ask.com Web Search
		Search all of the SOLs by keyword or select the content area to see a listing of the SOLs by grade.
		The Sun is personified in many mythologies: the Greeks called it Helios and the Romans called it Sol.
		The test questions are representative of the content and skills included in the Virginia SOL tests...
	search.ask.com /web?q=sol (324 words)

	Astral Worship
		Hence, designating him as the Mighty Hunter, and calling his exploits the twelve labors, they made the incarnate Saviours the heroes of similar ones on earth, which they taught were performed for the good of mankind; and that, after fulfilling their earthly mission, they were exhaled to heaven through the agency of fire.
		The veiling of the sun, as represented in these plays, having reference to the imaginary sympathy expressed by God Sol for the sufferings of his incarnate son, was shown upon the stage by shading the lights.
		The first month, dedicated to the genius known in the mythology as Janus, and from which was derived the name January, was portrayed with two faces, the one of an old man looking mournfully backward over the old year, and the other of a young man looking joyfully forward to the new year.
	members.cox.net /srice1/books/hill/astralworship.htm (9616 words)

	Universal Brilliance - Sun Mythologies
		Shinto mythology tells us that she found herself in competition with her brother Susano (the moon god), in which both attempted to out perform the other in the creation of more male deities.
		Chinese mythology tells us that at one time there were ten suns, each taking turns ruling the sky.
		For his loss of control Yi was stripped of his immortal powers and banished to earth - though for his rescue of the people, he was greeted by humanity as a hero.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/mythology/117414/2 (472 words)

	Society for Organizational Learning
		Peter Senge is a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founding chair of SoL, the Society for Organizational Learning.
		He is the author of The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, co-author of the three related fieldbooks and most recently Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future.
		The dominant mythology has become that the purpose of the company is to maximize return on investors' capital.
	www.solonline.org /news/item?item_id=9000239 (1800 words)

	Pollux
		Since 1990, it has been measured to be around 85 to 155 percent as enriched as Sol with elements heavier than hydrogen ("metallicity"), based on its abundance of iron (Hatzes et al, 2006; and Drake and Smith, 1990).
		Given that Pollux has a higher mass and is more evolved than Sol, the star is likely to be much younger than Sol's 4.6 billion years.
		In Greek mythology, Zeus (the chief of the gods) seduced Leda (the wife of the King of Sparta, Tyndareos) on her wedding night by changing himself into a swan.
	www.solstation.com /stars2/pollux.htm (1108 words)

	Solar Deity
		The most likely reason is the heavy influence of Taoism and I Ching in Chinese culture because the moon represents Yin and the sun represent Yang which are the basis of everything in nature.
		In Chinese mythology (cosmology), there were nine suns in the sky in the beginning.
		The world was so hot that nothing grew.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/so/Solar_god.html (188 words)

	Historic Real Treasures Coins and history of the coinage
		Many believe that Apollo becomes the Olympian "sun god", but this idea is mostly based on speculation and assumption.
		The equivalent of Helios in Roman mythology is Sol.
		Taras (Τάρας) was, according to Greek mythology, the son of Poseidon and of the nymph Satyrion.
	www.realtreasures.com /taras.htm (307 words)

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