A solar deity is a god or goddess who represents the Sun, or an aspect of it, usually by its perceived power and strength. Solar deities and Sun worship can be found throughout most of recorded history in various forms. The following is a list of solar deities:
Init-init: the Itneg god of the Sun married to the mortal Aponibolinayen; during the day, he leaves his house to shine light on the world[7]
Chal-chal: the Bontok god of the Sun whose son's head was cut off by Kabigat;[8] aided the god Lumawig in finding a spouse[9]
Mapatar: the Ifugao sun deity of the sky in charge of daylight[10]
Sun God: the Ibaloi deity who pushed up the skyworld and pushed down the underworld, creating earth, after he was hit by a man's arrow during the war between the peoples of the skyworld and the underworld[11]
Elag: the Bugkalot deity of the Sun, worshiped with the moon and stars; has a magnificent house in the sky realm called Gacay; retreats to his home during nights; giver of light and growth[12]
Amman: the Ilocano god of the Sun, where the sun is his eye[14]
Agueo: the morose and taciturn Pangasinense sun god who is obedient to his father, Ama; lives in a palace of light[15]
Algao: the Aeta Sun god who battled the giant turtle Bacobaco[16]
Mangetchay: also called Mangatia; the Kapampangan supreme deity who created life on earth in remembrance of his dead daughter; lives in the Sun;[17] in other versions, she is the creator and net-weaver of the heavens[18]
Aring Sinukûan: the Kapampangan Sun god of war and death, taught the early inhabitants the industry of metallurgy, wood cutting, rice culture and even waging war;[19] lives in Mount Arayat, and later included a female form[20]
Apolaki: the Tagalog god of sun and warriors;[21] son of Anagolay and Dumakulem;[22] sometimes referred as son of Bathala and brother of Mayari; ruler of the world during daytime[23]
Quadruple Deities: the four childless naked Tau-buid Mangyan deities, composed of two gods who come from the Sun and two goddesses who come from the upper part of the river; summoned using the paragayan or diolang plates[24]
Adlao: the Bicolano son of Dagat and Paros; joined Daga's rebellion and died; his body became the sun;[25] in another myth, he was alive and during a battle, he cut one of Bulan's arm and hit Bulan's eyes, where the arm was flattened and became the earth, while Bulan's tears became the rivers and seas[26]
Unnamed God: a Bicolano Sun god who fell in love with the mortal, Rosa; refused to light the world until his father consented to their marriage; he afterwards visited Rosa, but forgetting to remove his powers over fire, he accidentally burned Rosa's whole village until nothing but hot springs remained[27]
Sanghid: the Waray giant who wove cloth on a gold loom with supernatural speed; has the power to move back the Sun[28]
Liadlao: the gold-bodied Bisaya son of Lidagat and Lihangin; killed by Kaptan's rage during the great revolt; his body became the Sun[29]
Adlaw: the Bisaya Sun deity worshiped by the good[30]
Launsina: the Capiznon goddess of the Sun, Moon, stars, and seas, and the most beloved because people seek forgiveness from her[31]
Magrakad: the Tagbanwa god found at exactly noontime on the other side of the Sun; gives the warmth which sustains life and, when the people are ill, carries away sickness[32]
Tumangkuyun: wash and keep clean the trunks of the two sacred cardinal trees in Sidpan and Babatan by using the blood of those who have died in epidemics; the blood he uses causes the colors of the sunrise and sunset[32]
Libtakan: the Manobo god of sunrise, sunset, and good weather[22]
Unnamed Gods: the Bagobo gods whose fire create smoke that becomes the white clouds, while the Sun creates yellow clouds that make the colors of the rainbow[33]
Kadaw La Sambad: one of the two T'boli supreme deities; married to Bulon La Mogoaw; lives in the seventh layer of the universe[34]
Lageay Lengkuos: the greatest of Teduray heroes and a shaman (beliyan) who made the earth and forests; the only one who could pass the magnet stone in the straight between the big and little oceans; inverted the directions where east became west, inverted the path of the Sun, and made the water into land and land into water[35]
Sun Deity: the divine Maranao being depicted in an anthropomorphic form as a flaming young man; angels serve as his charioteers[36]
The Zunbil dynasty and the subjects of Zabulistan worshiped the Sun, which they called Zun. They believed that the Sun was the god of justice, the force of good in the world and, consequently, the being that drove out the darkness and allowed man to live another day.
Goddess Thần Mặt Trời,[39] the embodiment of the sun, the daughter of Ông Trời, old sister of Thần Mặt Trăng, she and her sister have a husband who is a bear, when the Bear God wants to meet them, a solar or lunar eclipse will appear.
Grannus, god associated with spas, healing thermal and mineral springs, and the Sun
Lugh, Sun god as well as a writing and warrior god
Macha, "Sun of the womanfolk" and occasionally considered synonymous with Grian
Olwen, female figure often constructed as originally the Welsh Sun goddess
Sulis, British goddess whose name is related to the common Proto-Indo-European word for "Sun" and thus cognate with Helios, Sól, Sol, and Surya and who retains solar imagery, as well as a domain over healing and thermal springs. Probably the de facto solar deity of the Celts.
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