Solar deity

A solar deity is a revered religious personification of the sun or of its aspects, light, energy, solar running and season. You may be one of many deities as well as central or supreme deity.

Worship of the sun

Sun gods in different cultures

• Egypt Aton
• Khepri
• Harachte
• Atum
• Horus as god of light

• Akkad / Babylonia / Assyria: Šamaš

• Aztecs Curicaberis
• Huitzilopochtli
• Tonatiuh

• Teutons Sunna / Sol

• Greeks Apollo as a god of light
• Helios
• Hyperion, a Titan and father of Helios

• Hittites Sun Goddess of Arinna ( Ištanu )
• Sun Goddess of the Earth
• Sun-god of the sky

• Celts Lugh as a god of light
• Sulis

• Inca Viracocha
• Inti the star of "sun", not the God

• Inuit Malina

• Japanese Amaterasu

• Lakota (Sioux ) Wi

• Phoenician Melkarth

• Persian / Iranian Mythology Mithra
• Hvare Xšaēta or Xwaršēd

• Roman Apollo
• Elagabalus, Latin: Elagabalus or Heliogabalus, particularly in Emesa (now Homs ) in the Roman province of Syria
• Jarchibol, particularly in Palmyra
• Malakbel, particularly in Palmyra
• Mithras
• Sol

• Slavs Svarožić

• South Asia miter
• Surya

• Sumerians Utu