Sun

deity sky Tewa single tradition · 11

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

sibling of
Moon, Zora, Aningaat, Choc
syncretized with
Sol Invictus, Mandulis
manifested by
Qamata, Younger Brother, Agni
served by
'Agojo so'jo
allied with
Bʼatzbʼal, Xkitza

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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