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| | Solar deity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A solar deity is a deity who represents the sun, or an aspect of it. | | | 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. | | | They also claim that the belief that solar deities are primarily male is linked to the fact that a few better known mythologies (such as those of ancient Greece and Egypt) sometimes break from this rule. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_mythology
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| | Nergal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Nergal was also the deity who presides over the nether-world, and who stands at the head of the special pantheon assigned to the government of the dead (supposed to be gathered in a large subterranean cave known as Aralu or Irkalla). | | | Nergal is mentioned in the Hebrew bible as the deity of the city of cuth (Cuthah): "And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal" (2 Kings, 17:30). | | | Portrayed in hymns and myths as a god of war and pestilence, Nergal seems to represent the sun of noontime and of the summer solstice which brings destruction to mankind, high summer being the dead season in the Mesopotamian annual cycle. |
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http://www.kernersville.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Nergal
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| | List of deities - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | There are also lists of deities by type; see the articles death deity, household deity, lunar deity, and solar deity. | | | Related articles include Deva, Demigod, Divinity, God, God (male deity), Goddess, Mythology, Religion, Scripture. | | | This list of deities aims to give information about deities in the different religions, cultures and mythologies of the world. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deities
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| | EGYPT WORLD :: The Land of The Pharaos |
| | In Egyptian mythology Anat is the daughter of the solar deity Ra. | | | One of the eight primal deities or divine forces known as the Ogdoad. | | | A female warrior deity of Syrian (Canaanite) origin: She is derived from the goddess Anath. |
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http://www.freewebs.com/egypt_world/gods.htm
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| | The Sun, A Universal Deity - The Secret Teachings of All Ages |
| | Many of the ancient peoples had more than one solar deity; in fact, all of the gods and goddesses were supposed to partake, in part at least, of the sun's effulgence. | | | 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. | | | The mysterious lights which illuminated the temples of the Egyptian Mysteries during the nocturnal hours were said by some to he reflections of the spiritual sun gathered by the magical powers of the priests. |
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http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/secret_teachings_of_all_ages/the_sun_a_universal_deity.htm
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| | www.petsim.co.uk |
| | From this singular deity came all life in its male and female forms ~ the achievement of balance within the universe and the beginnings of Maat (the essential harmony and justice of the universe). | | | This involved the solar deity emerging from the four pairs of divinities, who’s names refer to different aspects of chaos: Nun and Naunet (water), Amun and Amaunet (hidden-ness), Heh and Haunet (infinity) and Kek and Kauket (darkness). | | | There are three surviving Egyptian creation myths, each derived from cults and deities from specific locations: at Hermopolis Magna the myth involves four pairs of deities called the OGDOAD, at Heliopolis the myth concerns four generations of deities called the ENNEAD, and finally at Memphis the myth involves only the god Ptah. |
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http://www.geocities.com/petsimcouk/egypet.html
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| | 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. | | | Yet she is a personal deity, approachable, and the mother of the sky gods. | | | 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 night
a solar hero who belongs to the darkness and not to the light.” Near East. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/journal/cathbodua/Gods/Agods.html
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| | Bastet : Bast |
| | In Egyptian mythology, Bastet was a solar deity and a goddess of cats and fertility. |
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http://www.fastload.org/ba/Bast.html
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| | Tian Shu Zhu - The Sun God and the Wind God at Kizil - Transoxiana Eran ud Aneran |
| | Nevertheless, it is probably safe to say that, to the clear mind of a Buddhist, the solar deity was understood as a general sun god, even though his iconography had often been localized. | | | The concern of this paper is the sun deity in Buddhist monasteries. | | | Solar divinities often have a primary role in religion, each called by a different a name associated with a different mythology. |
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http://www.transoxiana.com.ar/Eran/Articles/tianshu.html
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| | 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. | | | In all religions alike the Sun-God is always born in midwinter, directly after the shortest day, born at midnight of the 24th of December when the constellation Virgo is on the horizon. |
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http://www.lcc.cc/tlc/2000-01/easter.htm
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| | The Primordial Light? |
| | From the importance of these deities in their respective pantheons we may clearly see that here was a very important god, and in his time he was chief among the gods. | | | The deities An/Anu and Ouranos were both lone planetary deities, although their names translate literally as "heaven" (36). | | | Moreover, he was the son of a Prajapati (an original deity). |
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http://www.tresman.co.uk/harold/35light.htm
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| | Amen and Aten |
| | The claim of being the “first monotheist” of world hisotry was made for Akhnaten on the basis of his hymn to that deity, by Egyptologists and then turned again in booksof authors writing on religion or history in general. | | | 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. |
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http://www.varchive.org/ce/amenaten.htm
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| | Roman Solar Mythology |
| | Further, the young fanatic caused the rude fetish of the deity to be transported from Emesa to Rome, where he built a great and stately temple for it on the Palatine beside the imperial palace. | | | It was in the press of battle that this last imperial votary of the Sun received his mortal wound and met a most painful death with the fortitude of a hero and the serenity of a saint. | | | However the deity to whom he prayed may have granted him a virtuous life, he withheld from his worshipper the boon of an easy and peaceful end. |
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http://library.flawlesslogic.com/frazer_2.htm
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| | Catholic Biblical Quarterly, The: Book reviews -- Yaweh and the Sun: Biblical and Archaeological Evidence for Sun ... |
| | His goals are to define Solar Yahwism, i.e., to ascertain the aspects of Yahweh that defined him as a solar deity and to show how the worship of Solar Yahweh related to other sun cults. | | | Yahweh and the Sun is comprised of four chapters on the worship of Yahweh in Israel as a solar deity, in addition to a preface, acknowledgments, lists of plates, figures, and abbreviations, ten appendixes, plates and figures, a bibliography, an index of references, and an index of authors. | | | In the final chapter T. summarizes his argument that Israelites understood Yahweh as a solar deity, even to the extent that the Israelites took the solar aspects of Yahweh's nature for granted. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3679/is_199504/ai_n8712969
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| | Pagan Astronomy Network - The Sun |
| | Often assumed to be a male deity, among the Indo-Europeans the sun was a goddess, and the moon was male. | | | The Cerne Abbas giant in Dorset is a sun deity carved on a hillside, some say the Saxon god Heil, Hayle, or Helis, equivalent to the Greek Helios and the Norse Hel. | | | The sun and moon, Utu and Nanna were considered to be two special deities that "saw all" that humans did from their lofty positions in the sky, and who attended their judgment to give witness to each person's deeds. |
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http://www.paganastronomy.net/sun.htm
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| | Ancient Egypt: the Mythology - Horus |
| | To the people this solar deity became identified as the son of Osiris. | | | At the same time, the Pharaohs were the followers of Re and so Horus became associated with the sun as well. | | | The Great Sphinx at the Giza Plateau is an example of this form of Horus. |
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http://www.egyptianmyths.net/horus.htm
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| | Appendix 5: Is Allah the moon god as claimed by Robert Morey? |
| | The primal deity at Babel was the solar deity, Enlil, and he was male in anthropomorphic context. | | | Allah was the solar deity, and Allat was the moon goddess. | | | He admits that the rest of the Middle East worshipped a goddess as moon deity, but he asserts that Allah was the exception, and that the Arabs thought of him as a deity of the moon. |
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http://www.blessedquietness.com/alhaj/append-5.htm
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| | Statues and Statuary at Panpipes |
| | Sekmet, the ravaging lioness, with her burning solar eye, is the destroyer/devourer aspect of the goddess. | | | She was one of the three major deities in ancient Egypt - along with Osiris, her husband and her son Horus. | | | Additionally, Bastet was one of the "Eyes of Ra", the title of an "avenger" god who is sent out specifically to lay waste to the enemies of Egypt and her gods.She was the goddess of many things including fire, cats, dance, sex, music, and good luck. |
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http://www.panpipes.com/goddessstatues1.htm
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| | Deities & Myths of Bealtaine |
| | In places like Aquileia, the deity’s protective aspects were emphasized, while in other spots, his healing aspects were the focus. | | | This occurred each year until Fionn eluded the sleep-spell and, with his spear (the classic weapon of a solar god), killed Ailenn at the entrance to the sidhe. | | | Although Fionn was presented in the stories as a human with superhuman skills, talents, and attributes, he bore many of the marks of a solar god. |
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http://www.applewarrior.com/celticwell/ejournal/beltane/belenos.htm
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| | TOPY: Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth |
| | What I found was essentially a chaos-solar deity with aspects linked to the Heirophant card of the Tarot. | | | Finding reference to him in only one small book (and only a passing reference at that), I resorted to divination, comtemplation, meditation and invokation to further my knowledge. | | | I've seen mention of a "cult" dedicated to him but have never encountered anybody who has even heard of him. |
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http://www.topy.net/kataas.html
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| | Transformational Fireworks of the Sun RA |
| | This is an important consideration, for it empowers you with the understanding that your Solar Deity is breaking the electromagnetic chains around you. | | | Your brilliant Sun, great glowing fire, is exploding in spiritual ecstasy, in anticipation of what lies ahead and that they cannot measure —for neither do they understand nor believe in Divinity. | | | And, hopefully, you will feel elation, rather than fear, at the thought that the Universe is, indeed, right on schedule – unfolding the Divine Plan in all its glory. |
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http://luisprada.com/Protected/transformational_fireworks_of_the_sun_ra.htm
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| | FarShores News -- The James Donahue Column - Pagan Belief in a Solar Deity May Be Correct |
| | When we offered a Hopi two-horned priest a meal in our home, we were surprised that before he ate a single bite of his food, he took a portion of it into the yard and offered it back to the Earth from which it came. | | | Pagan Belief in a Solar Deity May Be Correct | | | When my wife, Doris and I lived briefly with the Navajo and Hopi people in Arizona a few years ago, we were acutely aware that the aboriginal people all respect and even worship the Mother Earth as a living deity. |
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http://www.100megsfree4.com/farshores/jd0209.htm
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| | Subject: Re: ane Yaweh, the solar deity Dear rasmus, The passage you cite has nothing to do with YHWH's solarity but with his divinity and his kavod which here, as in many biblical passages is the equivalent of akkadian melammu. | | | Subject: ane Yaweh, the solar deity The most obvious testimuny to the identification of Yahweh with the solar Deity I have not yet see mentioned. | | | Subject: ane Yaweh as a solar deity On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 George Athas wrote : >However, in Assyrian iconography, the sun-disk is portrayed with wings and associated with justice and healing. |
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http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/ANE/ANE-DIGEST/2000/v2000.n069
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| | Roman Isis or Egyptian Aset, a penetrating portrait. |
| | At this period she was not a great mother deity for the people but linked to, and reserved for, Royalty. | | | It would be thousands of years until she became a Great Mother deity. | | | This is not at all to say that the ancient Egyptian female deities did not fill these functions. |
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http://www.philae.nu/akhet/aset.html
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| | Worship of the Serpent: Chapter VI. Serpent Temples |
| | Upon the introduction of images to express objects of worship, the solar deity was not unfrequently represented by conical stones in an upright position. | | | It was, probably, a temple and its environs, where a society of priests resided, who were maintained by the public, and who worshipped the deity under the semblance of a serpent | | | From which it appears, that, in the confusion of Pagan idolatry, these superstitions, originally independent, became so closely interwoven, that from their union sprung up a new kind of idolatry, and a new god, who, partaking of the attributes of the SUN and of the SERPENT, united their names, and was worshipped as APOLLO |
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http://www.sacred-texts.com/etc/wos/wos09.htm
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| | Mythology Details, Meaning Mythology Article and Explanation Guide |
| | Likewise, most myths involve a supernatural force or deity, but many simple legends and narratives passed down orally from generation to generation have mythic content. | | | Godchecker Easy-to-use searchable encyclopedia of gods and goddesses from around the world; currently has over 1,600 gods listed, including many obscure deities. | | | Encyclopedia Mythica Comprehensive encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and legend; covers deities, heroes and mythical beasts. |
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http://www.e-paranoids.com/m/my/mythology.html
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| | NINIB - LoveToKnow Article on NINIB |
| | 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. | | | The combination points to the amalgamation of the district in which Ninib was worshipped with the one in which Bel was the chief deity. | | | This district may have been Shirgulla and surrounding places, which, as we know, fell at one time under the control of the rulers of Nippur. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/N/NI/NINIB.htm
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| | Krishna Crucified? |
| | The cross was in pre-Christian times a common symbol, revered as a divine sign, an emblem of the solar deity, representing the times of the year when the sun appears to be "hung on a cross," i.e., the vernal and autumnal equinoxes. | | | This fructifying god, of course, is the solar deity, i.e., Osiris/Horus. | | | Yet another deity hung a tree was the Norse god Baldur, as Rev. |
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http://www.truthbeknown.com/kcrucified.htm
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| | NERGAL - LoveToKnow Article on NERGAL |
| | 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. | | | Portrayed in hymns and myths as a god of war and pestilence, there can be little doubt that Nergal represents the sun of noontime and of the summer solstice which brings destruction to mankind. | | | The importance of Kutha as a religious and at one time also as a political centre led to his surviving the tendency to concentrate the various sun-cults of Babylonia in Shamash (q.v.). |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/N/NE/NERGAL.htm
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| | Gasani The chief god of the Bakene, a god of the sky and of the water, is invoked in illness. | | | In the Chorti drama they assume the role of redeemer of humanity, sacrificing themselves only to save the rest, concentrating upon their own person the attention of evil forces.” Same as Huahpú of the Quiché as a solar deity. | | | Gongpoh The remote supreme god who controls all other deities both good and evil. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/journal/cathbodua/Gods/Ggods.html
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| | RealMagick Article: Lugh by Obsidian |
| | His archetype appears to derive from an early solar deity, and he has many epithets and sobriquets, among which: Lamhfhada, Long-arm, refering to his skill with spear or sling; Samildanach, much-skilled, having many talents; Ildanach, seer; and Maicnia, boy-warrior. |
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http://realmagick.com/articles/46/946.html
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| | The Energy Story - Chapter 15: Solar Energy |
| | In Mesopotamia, the sun-god Shamash was a major deity and was equated with justice. | | | The influence of the sun also appears in other religions - Zoroastrianism, Mithraism, Roman religion, Hinduism, Buddhism, the Druids of England, the Aztecs of Mexico, the Incas of Peru, and many Native American tribes. | | | In Greece there were two sun deities, Apollo and Helios. |
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http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/story/chapter15.html
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| | Theosophy |
| | LOGOS, the Word of God, the Solar Deity. | | | Here in our world there is a great Official who represents the Solar Deity | | | Next below this Solar Deity, yet also in some mysterious manner part of |
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http://www.harvestfields.netfirms.com/ebook/02/060/02.htm
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| | Surya God of Light, Vedic imagery, worship the sun, solar deity, |
| | Surya as the main deity gave way to the embodiment of aspects of the sun in every God. | | | All over the country there are many temples devoted to the Sun God, the most famous of which is the Sun Temple of Konark. | | | Most temples have a sculpture representing the solar deity. |
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http://www.indiaprofile.com/religion-culture/surya.htm
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| | Egyptian Mythology |
| | Solar deity, sometimes considered god of war; falcon-headed. | | | Goddess of the dead; sister and wife of Set. | | | One of chief Theban deities; united with sun god under form of Amen-Ra; husband of Mut. |
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http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0197624.html
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| | Funny Sabbats |
| | A major female deity gives birth to (insert name of preferred solar deity here). | | | The baby born at Yule here ages to childhood, and the major female deity absorbs His youthful energy to grow younger, back to childhood; they then play "Asclepius". | | | Celebrants hold aloft individual candles intended to symbolically light the ascent of the mother of the newborn solar deity as She returns to this plane of existence from the underworld bearing Her son/sun with Her, the end result resembling a Metallica concert. |
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http://cosmicbabe.net/funny_sabbat.html
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| | Bastet - TheBestLinks.com - Cat, Egyptian mythology, Osiris, Solar deity, ... |
| | In Egyptian mythology, Bast was a solar deity and a goddess of fertility and protector of pregnant women. | | | Bastet - TheBestLinks.com - Cat, Egyptian mythology, Osiris, Solar deity,... | | | Bast, Bastet, Cat, Egyptian mythology, Osiris, Solar deity, Isis, Sekhmet, Ptah... |
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| | NOVICA - Cedar and leather trays, 'Solar Deity' (set of 3) |
| | The Asis Family honors the beliefs of the Paracas people, invoking the Sun God to appear on this set of trays. | | | NOVICA - Cedar and leather trays, 'Solar Deity' (set of 3) | | | Cedar and leather trays, 'Solar Deity' (set of 3) |
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http://www.novica.com/itemdetail/index.cfm?pID=84886
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| | Aten |
| | Originally a God of the moon and mirrors. | | | Aten: A single solar deity of the Amarna Revolution. | | | Kemetic names: Aten, Aton, Disk, Sun Disk (N.B. In addition to native variations by locality or over time, there are often several possible transliterations into the Roman alphabet used for English.) |
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http://www.teenwitch.com/DEITY/KMT/ATEN.HTM
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| | RealMagick Article: Eochaid by Obsidian |
| | A very early Aspect of the Daghda, A solar deity associated with lightning. | | | Usually spoken of as one-eyed, and often refered to by an epithet of Daghda's, Deirgderc, redeye, the sun. | | | If you find an article in violation of a copyright, please inform Gwydion and we will resolve the situation promptly. |
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http://realmagick.com/articles/21/921.html
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| | Ninib - definition of Ninib in General |
| | (Sumerian and Babylonian mythology) A solar deity, first-born of | | | Ninib - a solar deity; first-born of Bel and consort was Gula; god of war and the chase and agriculture; sometimes identified with Biblical Nimrod | | | Embed a dictionary search in your own web page |
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http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Ninib
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| | BIGpedia - Wi - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online |
| | He is a solar deity, and is associated with the American Bison. | | | Anog Ite attempted to seduce Wi, but she had one of her two faces changed into an ugly visage as punishment. |
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http://www.bigpedia.com/encyclopedia/Wi
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| | FarShores: The James Donahue Column - Solar Deity Talking |
| | Most of that coronal mass was ejected harmlessly into space, and directed away from Earth. | | | But he does see a very angry sun that watches the eco-destructive activities of over six billion humans on this planet. | | | Ilya Usoskin, a geophysicist at the University of Oulu, Finland, told Scientific American that he has studied the solar activity over the past 1,150 years and discovered an increase in sunspots since the 1940s. |
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http://www.100megsfree4.com/farshores/jd111303.htm
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| | Solar Aspect of the Logos |
| | THE GREAT SOLAR LOGOS IS GOD CREATIVE PRINCIPLE IN ACTION IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM. | | | NOTHING COULD EXIST WITHOUT THIS GOD GIVEN MANIFESTATION OF LIGHT AND ENERGY, AND UNMANIFESTATION SUBSTANCE OF THE GREAT SOLAR LOGOS. | | | THE SOLAR LOGOS CONTAINS SHEER ELECTRO-MAGNETIC ENERGIES AND ELECTRICITY, VITAL FORCE ENERGY. |
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