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	Solar deity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although many sources contend that solar deities are generally male, and the brother, father, husband and/or enemy of the lunar deity (usually female), this is not cross-culturally upheld, as sun goddesses are found on every continent.
		The neolithic concept of a solar barge, the sun as traversing the sky in a boat, is found in ancient Egypt, with Ra and Horus.
		In the Vedas, numerous hymns are dedicated to Surya, the Sun personified, and Savitar, "the impeller", a solar deity either identified with or associated with Surya.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Solar_deity (889 words)

	Learn more about Solar Deity in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sun gods are generally (though not always) male, and usually the brother, father, husband and/or enemy of the lunar deity (usually female).
		In another myth, solar eclipse was caused by the dog of heaven biting off a piece of the sun.
		There was a tradition in China to hit pots and pans during a solar eclipse to drive away the "dog".
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /s/so/solar_deity.html (287 words)

	Solar deity: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A solar deity is a deity (deity: Any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force) who represents the Sun (Sun: A typical star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system).
		Ansa (Ansa: in hinduism, ansa is a solar deity and one of the adityas....
		Aryman (Aryman: in hinduism, aryman is a solar deity and one of the adityas....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/solar_deity (2023 words)

	Secret Teachings of All Ages: The Sun, A Universal Deity
		The Egyptian priests in many of their ceremonies wore the skins of lions, which were symbols of the solar orb, owing to the fact that the sun is exalted, dignified, and most fortunately placed in the constellation of Leo, which he rules and which was at one time the keystone of the celestial arch.
		The wings, the serpents, and the solar orb are the insignia of Ammon, Ra, and Osiris.
		The Norwegians regarded Balder the Beautiful as a solar deity, and Odin is often connected with the celestial orb, especially because of his one eye.
	www.sacred-texts.com /eso/sta/sta11.htm (5442 words)

	NINIB - LoveToKnow Article on NINIB
		The combination points to the amalgamation of the district in which Ninib was worshipped with the one in which Bel was the chief deity.
		On the one hand he is the healing god who releases from sickness and the ban of the demons in general, and on the other he is the god of war and of the chase, armed with terrible weapons.
		It is not easy to reconcile these two phases, except on the assumption that he has absorbed in his person various minor solar deities, representing different phases of the sun, just as subsequently Shamash absorbed the attributes of practically all the minor sun-deities.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NI/NINIB.htm (355 words)

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		Another deity related to this luminary was Ninib, associated especially with the sun of early morning and of spring, a god of fertility and the guardian of boundaries, as well as a war-deity.
		In the Assyrian Asshur there was originally seen a solar deity, but his position at the head of the pantheon of the warlike Assyrians led to the entire obscuration of this significance.
		The sun-god most noted of all, and indeed the chief deity of Egypt, was Ra, portrayed as a hawkheaded man, or as a hawk, and he wears a disk encircled by the urxus or the serpent Khut.
	www.ccel.org /s/schaff/encyc/encyc11/htm/old/0160=140.htm (1028 words)

	NERGAL - LoveToKnow Article on NERGAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		, the name of a solar deity in Babylonia, the main seat of whose cult was at Kutha or Cuthah, represented by the mound of Tell-Ibrahim.
		It is a logical consequence that Nergal is pictured also as the deity who presides over the nether-world, and stands at the head of the special pantheon assigned to the government of the dead, who are supposed to be gathered in a large subterranean cave known as Aralu or Irkalla.
		As in the case of Ninib, Nergal appears to have absorbed a number of minor solar deities, which accounts for the various names or designations under which he appears, such as Lugalgira, Sharrapu (" the burner," perhaps a mere epithet), Ira, Gibil (though this name more properly belongs to Nusku, q.v.) and Sibitti.
	58.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NE/NERGAL.htm (540 words)

	Sudershan-chakra etc.: Early sources of inspiration by Dr. Subhash C. Sharma
		In the Vedas, polymorphically speaking, Visnu is considered a solar deity belonging to Aditi (ruler of the heavens).
		All the solar deities, including Savitar (or Surya), are associated with the solar disc (representing the sun or sol) which is used in exercising their power.
		In other words, solar deities (including Visnu) basically are also the life’s maintainers and enhancers on earth, and they generally carry the Sudershan-chakra (or the celestial disc) associated with the sun or sol (which is the most potent force in heavens).
	www.geocities.com /lamberdar/sudershan.html (768 words)

	Aega (goddess) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Greek mythology, Aega ("goat" or "gust of wind"; also Aex) was a minor solar deity, goddess of the sun and domesticated animals.
		In another myth, she and her sisters were to nurse Zeus; her sister Amalthea took Aega's place as wet-nurse.
		She had a son, Aegipan, by Zeus; he was a similar deity to Pan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aega_(goddess) (124 words)

	Lunar Deity - WiccanWeb.ca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the study of mythology, a lunar deity is a god or goddess associated with or symbolizing the moon.
		These deities can have a variety of functions and traditions depending upon the culture, but they are often related to or an enemy of the solar deity.
		Many of the most well-known mythologies feature female lunar deities, such as the Greek goddesses Selene and Phoebe and their Olympian successor Artemis, their Roman equivalents Luna and Diana, or the Thracian Bendis.
	www.wiccanweb.ca /wiki/index.php/Lunar_Deity (490 words)

	Pagan Astronomy Network - The Sun
		Later, when the solar year had been devised, many cultures incorporated a solar calendar, and began extensive efforts to track when solar and lunar methods came into sync, eventually dropping the 13th lunar month (origin of the modern 13th number as a sort of taboo) and instituting 12 months in it's place.
		Often assumed to be a male deity, among the Indo-Europeans the sun was a goddess, and the moon was male.
		Many of the solar tales and myths found throughout the ancient world are more then just mere stories or fancy, as under the eye of the astronomer they reveal hidden scientific knowledge regarding solar and lunar cycles, calculation of the solar year, and the timing of equinoxes and solstices.
	paganastronomy.net /sun.htm (6002 words)

	The Energy Story - Chapter 15: Solar Energy
		Some solar power plants, like the one in the picture to the right in California's Mojave Desert, use a highly curved mirror called a parabolic trough to focus the sunlight on a pipe running down a central point above the curve of the mirror.
		Solar cells are also called photovoltaic cells - or PV cells for short - and can be found on many small appliances, like calculators, and even on spacecraft.
		These individual solar cells are arranged together in a PV module and the modules are grouped together in an array.
	www.energyquest.ca.gov /story/chapter15.html (1136 words)

	The Rising of the Sun
		The Egyptian solar procession can be symbolized in the form of the five-pointed star, a pentadactyl symbol, resembling among other things the hand as it spans the horizon.
		Each of the apical points (there are five, of course), marks the transition to a new aspect of the solar deity, and ushers in a new social order with it.
		In Mesopotamia, during the time of Horus, it was the solar deity Shamash who dominated the pantheon (a rose by another name).
	www.widdershins.org /vol6iss6/10.html (1873 words)

	Transformational Fireworks of the Sun RA
		Elaborate studies are being conducted of these heightened solar flares, increasingly intense solar radiation and many other top priority concerns having to do with the shifting energies of Ra and their effect on Earth and the rest of the solar system.
		Solar flares throw off enormous levels of radiation; sunspots appear with much more frequency; the solar wind that moves through the solar system blows with far greater intensity than ever before.
		Of the full-scale probing of solar combustion and its interaction with the ionosphere, there is far more activity than you can imagine, for they are totally focused upon the Sun’s dynamics and the interference this disturbance is causing to their Survival Plan.
	luisprada.com /Protected/transformational_fireworks_of_the_sun_ra.htm (2979 words)

	Myths of Babylon and Assyria: Chapter XIV. Ashur the National God of Assyria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The king is identified with Lucifer as the deity of fire and the morning star; he is the younger god who aspired to occupy the mountain throne of his father, the god Shar--the Polar or North Star.
		In various mythologies the arrow is associated with the sun, the moon, and the atmospheric deities, and is a symbol of lightning, rain, and fertility, as well as of famine, disease, war, and death.
		Whatever the explanation may be of one animal deity of fertility slaying another, it seems certain that the conflict was associated with the idea of sacrifice to procure the food supply.
	www.earth-history.com /Babylon/myths/mba20.htm (7939 words)

	Ancient Egyptian Mythology - Gods - Horus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		To the people this solar deity became identified as the son of Osiris.
		If he is said to be the son of Isis, he is Osirian; otherwise he is a solar deity.
		The solar Horus was called the son of Atum, or Re, or Geb and Nut variously.
	www.egyptianculture.net /Gods/Horus.aspx (716 words)

	Directory of Ancient Egyptian Gods
		A female warrior deity of Syrian (Canaanite) origin: She is derived from the goddess Anath.
		In Egyptian mythology Anat is the daughter of the solar deity Ra.
		Isis, one of the nine great deities known as the Ennead, is featured in myth principally as the devoted wife of Osiris, the first king on earth, and mother of Horus.
	www.osirisweb.com /egypt/director.htm (2058 words)

	petrolpump.co.in : energy sources, solar,Structure of the sun, Magnetic Field, Calculating the position of the Sun, ...
		To obtain an uninterrupted view of the Sun, the European Space Agency and NASA cooperatively launched the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) on December 2, 1995.
		A solar wind sample return mission, Genesis, was designed to allow astronomers to directly measure the composition of solar material.
		It returned to Earth in 2004 and is undergoing analysis, but it was damaged by crash-landing when its parachute failed to deploy on reentry to atmosphere.
	www.petrolpump.co.in /energy-sources/solar.htm (1126 words)

	FarShores: The James Donahue Column - Solar Deity Talking
		The science community is expressing concern and amazement over the ferocity of a series of unexpected super explosions, or flares, occurring on the surface of the sun.
		The science community is in agreement that the solar activity this year is unusual, and that something is happening with our sun.
		The solar flares might be interpreted as a warning.
	farshores.org /jd111303.htm (637 words)

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		Acek may, however, be his female counterpart as this deity is concerned with fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, and with agricultural sowing of seed.
		As an Assyrian deity he was sometimes also called Nin-ip, and was ”a form of the Sun-god, originally denoting the scorching sun of mid-day.” In Babylonia he ”was the sun who issues forth from the shades of nighta solar hero who belongs to the darkness and not to the light.” Near East.
		As a Hittite/Hurrian deity he was the second king of heaven, supplicating his father, Alalu, and in turn being supplanted by his son Kumarbi.
	www.angelfire.com /journal/cathbodua/Gods/Agods.html (7695 words)

	Amen and Aten
		In this example, the chapel at a place where an apparition of the deity took place and the cult connected with it, are in competition with the cult and a chapel at another location, with similar claims.
		If Amen and Aten were both solar deities, then the passions that accompanied the change of the cult—first from Amen to Aten and, after Akhnaten, back from Aten to Amen—must have had their origin in something that is yet unexplained.
		However we know that Zeus was the Roman Jupiter, was the god of that planet; Helios—the solar deity, was certainly not the highest deity; and even in the form of Apollo, the sun was not supreme on the Greek Olympus.
	www.varchive.org /ce/amenaten.htm (1247 words)

	The Liberal Catholic, Easter 2000: Easter: Rt Rev C.W. Leadbeater
		Each solar system is the expression of a mighty Being whom we call the Solar Deity, the Logos, the Word or expression of that infinite God.
		This Solar Deity is to His system all that men mean by the title God.
		The whole life of the solar system comes from Him, and therefore those who wish to fulfil that which He has indicated for us, those who wish to become wise, to become Initiates, must follow in His footsteps and develop as He has developed.
	www.lcc.cc /tlc/2000-01/easter.htm (2111 words)

	Deities & Myths of Bealtaine
		This solar being was known throughout the Celtic areas of western Europe under several different names: Belenos, Belenus, Bel.
		In some areas, he was a healing deity; in others, he was the protector of the town.
		On the Continent, Belenus was associated with all the functions the Celts expected of solar gods: protection, fertility, healing, regeneration after death.
	www.applewarrior.com /celticwell/ejournal/beltane/belenos.htm (2344 words)

	Untitled Document
		The realm of the guardians of the four directions cover the lower reaches of Meru, which includes the mansions of the sun and moon (and constellations), the summits of the concentric mountain ranges, and four ascending levels of minor deities on the lower half of the mountain.
		There is a higher level for the directional gods (Indra, Yama, Soma, and Varuna), which is the first level of the heaven of the gods.
		The diagram is called a vastupurusamandal: vastu means "architecture"; purus means "Person" or the primordial, supreme principle, the cause and essence of existence; the mandala means "cosmic diagram".
	www.mc.maricopa.edu /dept/d10/asb/anthro2003/archy/angkor/religion.html (554 words)

	Roman Isis or Egyptian Aset, a penetrating portrait.
		Aset was a funerary deity, which the Roman Isis never was; together with her sister Nebt-Het (Gr: Nephtys) she is depicted on coffins in the form of a kite with outstretched wings, protecting the deceased.
		This, her role as mother, is what probably lies as a basis for the Greco-Roman interpretations of her, which caused her earlier aspects and functions to fade in the background.
		Plutharch, who elaborated on the myth of Isis and Osiris, associated her with the moon, which is to be considered a sign of Roman influence, since the older form, the Egyptian Aset was associated with the sun and even called the 'Eye of Re'.
	www.philae.nu /akhet/aset.html (1060 words)

	The Great Myth of the Sun-Gods by Alvin Boyd Kuhn
		It is commonly supposed that religious honors were paid to the sun as a deity by a few isolated peoples or sects, such as the Parsees and the ancient Ghebers of Persia, and some African tribes.
		The careers of these solar gods, then, were a type of what is occurring to every man who is dowered with the spark of divine soul within his breast.
		The King of Glory is the immortal Sun-god, the deity in our hearts; and when at last he blazes forth in the heyday of his glory, and comes in majesty into our lives, then we behold his glory, as of the alone-begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
	www.tphta.ws /ABK_GMSG.HTM (3974 words)

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