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Solar gods
- VishnuFive hymns out of 1028 in the Rigveda are dedicated to Vishnu, yet this minor solar deity rose to become a supreme god. In Mandala 7, section 99, the text…
- FreyrIn Norse mythology, Freyr stands as the god associated with kingship, fertility, peace, prosperity, fair weather, and good harvest.
- HorusThe name Horus appears in Egyptian hieroglyphs as with the original pronunciation reconstructed for Old and early Middle Egyptian.
- ApolloThe name Apollo appears in Linear B tablets as the fragment ]pe-rjo-[, yet scholars debate whether this represents the god himself or a different figure…
- PtahA hymn from the Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt declares that Ptah crafted the world in the design of his heart. The Shabaka Stone, dating to the Twenty-Fifth…
- AtumAncient Egyptian priests spoke the word tm to describe a verb meaning to complete or to finish. This linguistic root shaped how they understood Atum, the…
- HeliosThe word helios comes from a Proto-Indo-European root that ancient scholars trace back to the dawn of language itself. Walter Burkert noted in his 1985 book…
- Sol InvictusThe word Invictus means unconquered or invincible. Roman inscriptions from the third century BC used this epithet for Jupiter, Mars, Hercules, Apollo, and…
- MithraismThe first known monument showing Mithras killing a bull appears in Rome, dedicated by an official named Alcimus around the year 101 CE.
- RaIn the beginning, there was only Nun, a vast mass of watery chaos filling the universe. No land existed yet, and no life stirred within that dark expanse.
- AmunIn 2350 BCE, the name Amun appeared in the tomb of Pharaoh Unas. This Old Kingdom inscription marked the first known mention of the deity in Egyptian history.
- KhepriThe name Khepri appeared in the Pyramid texts, often accompanied by a scarab hieroglyph to clarify its meaning. This ancient Egyptian verb, written as ́hprj…