She is usually seen as female, though sometimes as male. Beiweīeaivi, Beiwe, Bievve, Beivve or Biejje is the Sami sun deity. She is described as beautiful, and in the Kalevala young maidens ask Päivätär to give them some of her silver jewelry and clothes. She spins silver yarn and makes clothes from it. In Finnish mythology, Päivätär is the sun goddess of the day, light, and life. Who are the goddesses of fire and light? XiheĪ Chinese solar deity, Xihe is the mother of ten suns that almost destroyed the earth. In this aspect her attributes are light, inspiration, inner healing, vital energy, and skills associated with fire. Brighidīrighid is an immensely popular deity and a member of the Tuatha De Danann.Īmong her many correspondences includes flames and the sun. This is because she has light-related attributes and her name means “white footprint”. Olwen is a Welsh goddess that some believe was originally a sun goddess. Sulevia is suggested to be a Celtic solar goddess worshipped in Gaul, Britain, and Galicia. She is assumed to be an Irish goddess of the sun. If you do any sun worship rituals, you can include one of these solar goddesses in your practice Grian She protects orphans and other unfortunate souls. She is also the goddess of life, fertility, warmth, and health. Her name is the conventional name for the sun. Similar to the Norse Sol, Saulė is a Baltic solar deity. In Arabian mythology, Shamsun is a sun goddess and patron goddess of the Himyarite Kingdom. One of her epithets is “goddess of the rising sun”. This fierce lioness goddess was also a warrior goddess of the sun. Sun worship is even seen in the Bible Bast She was often depicted in the form of a cow. She was also a goddess of the sky, women, fertility, and love. Hathor was a solar goddess and feminine counterpart to male sun gods like Horus and Ra. She is an incredibly powerful goddess and one of the oldest deities in the Egyptian pantheon. She also represented war, destruction, plagues, and healing. Sekhmet is an Egyptian goddess of the sun.
The sun disk known as the uraeus is her symbol, and was the emblem on the crown of Lower Egypt’s rulers.Īs well as being a sun goddess, she was a protector of kings and women in childbirth. Her epithets include “the shining god” and “Bright bride of heaven.” The earliest Egyptian myths told of an Egyptian sun goddess Wadjet This sun goddess was worshipped extensively through Germany and Scandinavia. Rituals with horses and chariots were associated with her. She was the Canaanite goddess of the sun and the daughter of El and Asherah.Īs well as a sun goddess, she was a judge among the gods and a saviour of humankind. Sun-goddess of Arinna, thou art Queen of all countries! In the Hatti country thou bearest the name of the Sun-goddess of Arinna but in the land which thou madest the cedar land thou bearest the name Hebat. To the Sun-goddess of Arinna, my lady, the mistress of the Hatti lands, the queen of Heaven and Earth.
Arinna and Hebat were assimilated as the same deity.
Hebat was the mother goddess of the Hurrians. Many myths have a sun goddess or goddess of sunset Hebat She was the wife of the weather god Tarhunna and protected the Hittite kingdom. In Hittite mythology, she was the queen of all lands and the chief goddess.