He was also worshiped as a sun-god and a god of courage.

This is believed to be a sign that Osiris had now replaced the sun-god Ra as the most popular god.

Churchward claimed that the ancient Egyptian sun-god Ra originated with the Mu ; he claimed that " Rah " was the word which the Naacals used for " sun " as well as for their god and rulers.

An old theory, supported by Egyptologists such as Percy Newberry and Jaroslav Černý once held that Peribsen was a heretic who sought to introduce a new form of state religion to Egypt, similar to the actions of a much later ( 18th dynasty ) pharaoh, Akhenaten, who had required Egyptians to serve only one god ( in his case the sun-god Aten ).

He was also worshiped as a sun-god and a god of courage.

Anextiomarus is a Celtic epithet of the sun-god Apollo recorded in a Romano-British inscription from South Shields, England.

In many polytheistic religions, such as in ancient Greek and Roman religions, a deity's epithets, easily multiplied in the practice of cultus generally reflected a particular aspect of that god's essence and role, for which their influence may be obtained for a specific occasion: Apollo Musagetes is " Apollo, leader of the Muses " and therefore patron of the arts and sciences while Phoibos Apollo is the same deity, but as shining sun-god.

When Jason came to know of this, Medea was already gone ; she fled to Athens in a chariot sent by her grandfather, the sun-god Helios.

Heyerdahl claimed that in Incan legend there was a sun-god named Con-Tici Viracocha who was the supreme head of the mythical fair-skinned people in Peru.

Originally, the phoenix was identified by the Egyptians as a stork or heron-like bird called a benu, known from the Book of the Dead and other Egyptian texts as one of the sacred symbols of worship at Heliopolis, closely associated with the rising sun and the Egyptian sun-god Ra.

In Greek mythology, Aeëtes ( also spelled Æëtes ) (), ( Laz and Georgian Aiet ' i, აიეტი ), was a King of Colchis, son of the sun-god Helios and the Oceanid Perseis ( a daughter of Oceanus ), brother of Circe and Pasiphae, and father of Medea, Chalciope and Apsyrtus.

Eastward of the Euphrates and southward of Sippara, Kutha and Babylon were Kish ( Ultaimir, E. of Hillah ), Nippur ( Niffer )- where stood the great sanctuary of El-lu, the older Bel-Uruk or Erech ( Warka ) and Larsa ( Senkera ) with its temple of the sun-god, while eastward of the Shatt el-Hai, probably the ancient channel of the Tigris, was Lagash ( Tello ), which played an important part in early Babylonian history.

A tradition was recorded by Juan de León that Q ' uq ' umatz assisted the sun-god Tohil in his daily climb to the zenith.

She was associated with the sun-god Atum.

He further suggested that Lugalbanda's association with the sun-god in the Old Babylonian version of the epic strengthened " the impression that at one point in the history of the tradition the sun-god was also invoked as an ancestor ".

Alexander had planned to settle the eastern shores of the Persian Gulf with Greek colonists, and although it is not clear that this happened on the scale he envisaged, Tylos was very much part of the Hellenised world: the language of the upper classes was Greek ( although Aramaic was in everyday use ), while Zeus was worshipped in the form of the Arabian sun-god Shams.

His mother Clymene had boasted that his father was the sun-god Helios.

Worshiped as a sun-god, Aramazd was considered to be the source of earth ’ s fertility.

It was marked by the reign of Amenhotep IV, who changed his name to Akhenaten ( 1353 – 1336 BC ) in order to reflect the dramatic change of Egypt's polytheistic religion into one where a sun-god Aten was worshiped over all other gods.

He was a son of Poseidon by Libya ; or his father is said to be the sun-god Helios ; or he was said to be autochthonous.

He was also a sun-god, rival of Baal-shamin and Mihr.

It's much more likely that these unions never occurred, but were embellishments to the image of the king ; hymns which praise Middle Eastern kings for coupling with the goddess Ishtar often also speak of him as running 320 kilometres, offering sacrifices, feasting with the sun-god Utu, and receiving a royal crown from An, all in a single day.

The heavenly bodies ( the heavenly host-sun, moon, and stars ) were worshiped as deities, a practice which the bible disapproves and of which righteous Job protests his innocence: " If I have looked at the sun when it shone, or the moon ... and my mouth has kissed my hand, this also would be an iniquity ..." Belief in the divinity of the heavenly bodies explains a passage in Joshua 10: 12, usually translated as Joshua asking the sun and moon to stand still, but in fact Joshua utters an incantation to ensure that the sun-god and moon-god, who supported his enemies, would not provide them with oracles.

Her name means " She who is beloved of Aten "; Aten being the sun-god her father worshipped ; Meritaten also may have served as pharaoh in her own right under the name, Ankhkheperure Neferneferuaten.

The poet also notes the “‘ heavy change ’ suffered by nature now that Lycidas is gone — a ‘ pathetic fallacy ’ in which the willows, hazel groves, woods, and caves lament Lycidas ’ s death .” In the following section of the poem, “ The shepherd-poet reflects … that thoughts of how Lycidas might have been saved are futile … turning from lamenting Lycidas ’ s death to lamenting the futility of all human labor .” The next section is followed by that of the voice of Phoebus, “ the sun-god, an image drawn out of the mythology of classical Roman poetry, replies that fame is not mortal but eternal, witnessed by Jove ( God ) himself on judgment day .” At the end of the poem, King / Lycidas appears as a resurrected figure, being delivered by the waters that lead to his death: “ Burnished by the sun's rays at dawn, King resplendently ascends heavenward to his eternal reward .”

On his voyage to the underworld, Odysseus follows instructions given to him by Circe, a goddess who is the daughter of the sun-god Helios.

The identification of Baʿal as a sun-god in historical scholarship came to be abandoned by the end of the 19th century

The ram had been sired by Poseidon in his primitive ram-form upon a nymph, Theophane, the granddaughter of Helios, the sun-god.

Beholding this trick played by the sun-god, Athena reacted with great anger.

( Suryavarman means " protected by Surya, the sun-god ".

However, in Roman mythology the sun-god Helios is adopted again only by his Latin name Sol.

The pantheon of Babylonian gods are terrified by this apparition and appeal to the sun-god Sin: who will slay the dragon and exercise kingship?

The sun-god Ra came from the primaeval mound of creation only after he set his daughter Maat in place of Isfet ( chaos ).

Iksvaku, the eldest son of Manu, establishes the solar line ( from Vivasvan, the sun-god, the father of Vaivasvata Manu ) at Ayodhya in Kosala.

Before dawn he used to go from the Eastern coast of sea to the Western coast and from the Northern coast of the sea to the Southern coast to pay his homage to Surya-the sun-god.

In Petrograd 1116B ( Prophecy of Neferti ) a saviour is actually predicted, and again, in the Admonitions of Ipuwer, although there is no prediction, the poet cannot refrain from drawing a picture of the ideal ruler of a state under the form of the sun-god Re.

B. Cook, Minos and Minotaur are only different forms of the same personage, representing the sun-god of the Cretans, who depicted the sun as a bull.

At dawn, it bathed in the water of the well, and the Greek sun-god Helios stopped his chariot ( the sun ) in order to listen to its song.

The falcons imply “ aspiration and determination in technological studies ”, as they were sacred to the sun-god Horus through their supposed ability to fly towards the sun without being dazzled.

On the island of Thrinacia, Odysseus ' men ate the cattle sacred to the sun-god Helios.

* Phlegon, one of the four horses of the chariot of the sun-god Helios in Greek mythology

The resistant Cephalus and Eos became lovers, and she bore him a son named Phaëthon ( not to be confused with the son of the sun-god Helios ).

* Aeëtes, King of Colchis, son of the sun-god Helios and the Oceanid Perseis, ( a daughter of Oceanus ), brother of Circe and Pasiphae, and father of Medea, Chalciope and Apsyrtus