Sun
Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #303 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.
↻ synthesized from 11 sources
When
- First attested
- 3000 BCE
- Attested period
- -3000 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Cult persisted from pre-Roman Illyria through the early centuries of Christianity.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Evening Star, Ponu'chona, rain, Tafukt, wind, tijenwet, Tarqiup Inua, sun deity, Moon, Hermes, Mercury, Stilbon, Apollo
- syncretized with
- Sol Invictus, Mandulis
- manifests as
- radiant crown, solar crown, sun crown, Eastern crown, tyrant's crown
- manifested by
- Qamata, Younger Brother, Agni
- served by
- 'Agojo so'jo
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“He is also considered to be the messenger of the Sun.”
#3899 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“the mother or the midwife who delivered the baby would take a brazier with embers and incense, and the baby, and then she would go up to the terrace of their house and address the wind, the rain, and the sun in these terms:"Ax am, a mmiš a ṭfuyt ! Here, your son, O sun!"”
#15558 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“siblings becoming the sun and moon, the sun torch flaming while the moon torch is only embers.”
#16135 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“The Illyrian Roman emperor Aurelian, whose mother was a priestess of the Sun, promoted the Sun – Sol Invictus – as the chief god of the Roman Empire. Among the Illyrians of early Albania the Sun was a widespread symbol.”
#16576 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Through the study, Müller concluded that the Sun having many different names led to the creation of multiple solar deities and their mythologies that were passed down from one group to another.”
#17663 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001