Meaning of solar goddess | Babel Free

Definitions

A female solar god.

Examples

“This solar goddess the people call Kolyada, although no such being appears in the recognized list old Sclavonic deities; […]”

“The six statues, carved in black granite, are probably 3,300 year's old and depict a powerful solar goddess named Sekhmet, sometimes holding people's lives in her hands.”

“Until Japan’s defeat in the Second World War, Emperor Hirohito had been worshipped. He had denied his godhead, but Japanese schoolchildren were taught, as a scientific fact, that he was descended from the solar goddess Amaterasu.”

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