'''Savitr''' (stem), '''Savitā''' (nominative singular) is a solar deity and one of the [[Aditya]]s in the Vedic religion.
...imes identified with, and at other times distinguished from, the chief Sun deity [[Surya]]. A number of beautiful Vedic hymns are invoked in his praise. He
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...of ṛtá. Together with Varuna, he counted among the [[Aditya]]s, a group of solar deities. They are the supreme keepers of order and gods of the law. Mitra h
...ch was covered by Varuna. Mitra together with Varuna is the most prominent deity and the chief of the Adityas, in the Rigveda. Mitra and Varuna are addresse
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He is an Aditya, a solar deity. He is supposed to be the chief of the manes and the Milky Way is supposed
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...ns)|Solar]]''' - The greatest of the angels, usually close attendants to a deity or champions of some cosmically beneficent task.
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...'Swarbhanu''' is a Hindu Asura (demon) traditionally held responsible for solar eclipses in Vedic mythology.
...shadowing the sun with darkness. Stella Kramrisch considers Svarbhānu as a deity greater than the sun due to this act. The ''Rig veda'' further narrates tha
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'''Vajrakilaya''' (''Dorje Phurpa'' in Tibetan) is a wrathful deity of Tibetan Buddhism who transmutes and transcends obstacles and obscuration
...ly across his chest with the hands lying flat on Vajrakilaya's stomach and solar plexus representing the flailed ego that has released its powerful grip obs
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As chief of the Adityas, Varuna has aspects of a solar deity though, when opposed to Mitra, he is rather associated to the night and Mit
...the directions, representing the west. Later art depicts Varuna as a lunar deity, as a yellow man wearing golden armor and holding a noose or lasso made fro
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...lla: Unleashed'', the Okinawan deity kaiju has to ability to transform raw solar energy into searing beams of heat from his eyes.
...rting a look with similarities to both and era designs. He is able to fire solar heat beams from his eyes.
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...Crúaich''', also known as '''Cenn Cruach''' or '''Cenncroithi''', was a [[deity]] of pre-Christian Ireland, reputedly propitiated with human sacrifice, who
...sacrifice in exchange for milk and grain suggest that Crom was a fertility deity.
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...Barque of Millions of Years, which no other god dare do." He was the only deity who was strong enough to withstand the power of Apep, and to kill the water
Set, Defending the Solar Barque Against Apep
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...eer. For a time, a myth developed around this in which [[Ra]], the [[solar deity|sun god]] (of Upper Egypt), created her from his fiery eye, to destroy mort
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...der of the pharaoh, and consequently of the chief god, Ra, who was a solar deity, gaining her the titles '''Lady of Flame''' and '''Eye of Ra'''. In Greek m
...e plates as their owners. Consequently, as the main cat (rather than lion) deity, Bast was strongly revered as the patron of cats, and thus it was in the te
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...with the solar cycle. The word is also associated with the highest Gnostic deity and eventually became the name of a demon in occultism.
...rwards broke out the heretic Basilides. He affirms that there is a supreme Deity, by name Abraxas, by whom was created Mind, which in Greek he calls Nous; t
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...nt" or "plumed serpent") is the ''Nahuatl'' name for the Feathered-Serpent deity of ancient Mesoamerica, one of the main gods of many Mexican and northern C
The Feathered Serpent deity was important in art and religion in most of Mesoamerica for close to 2,000
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...en as explanations for elaborate festivals that magnify the power of the [[deity]]. ''Prestige myths'' are usually associated with a divinely chosen hero, c
...ckster]] myth, which concerns itself with the pranks or tricks played by [[Deity|gods]] or heroes.
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Basatan is (most likely) a Great Old One. Very little is known about the deity, except that "he" possesses a ring with [[supernatural]] powers. Basatan ma
...rnath cruelly slaughtered the populace of Ib and stole the god's idol, the deity was awakened. Each year thereafter, strange ripples disturbed the otherwise
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...hecy, war, and death on the battlefield. She is generally considered a war deity comparable with the Germanic Valkyries, although her association with cattl
...rian of County Limerick who, in addition to a tutelary function, also have solar attributes.
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The name of "queen" and the magical powers indicate Medusa was a bronze-age deity, and yet deities are not beheaded by mortals and terrible ones are not real
...cally Greek. A tholos tomb, there or elsewhere, is a symbol of the uterus. Solar discs studded the walls of some. The "death masks" of the shaft graves shou
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