Solar deity
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A solar deity or sun deity is a deity who represents the Sun or an aspect thereof. Such deities are usually associated with power and strength. Solar deities and Sun worship can be found throughout mo
A solar representation on an anthropomorphic stele from Rocher des Doms, France, Chasséen culture, 5th-4th millennia BC
Ra in his barque
The Nebra Sky Disc, Germany, c. 1800–1600 BC
Heracles in the golden cup-boat of the sun god Helios, 480 BC
Sol (Roman mythology)
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Sol is the personification of the Sun and a god in ancient Roman religion. It was long thought that Rome actually had two different, consecutive sun gods: The first, Sol Indiges, was thought to have b
Sol on a disk
Polychrome reproduction of the Mithraic banquet scene featuring Mithras and the Sun god (Sol Invictus) banqueting on the hide of the slaughtered bull, dating to 130 CE, Lobdengau-Museum, Ladenburg, Germany
On the left, the Roman Emperor Aurelian with a radiate crown and on the right, a depiction of Sol