Meaning of sun goddess | Babel Free

Definitions

A female sun god.

Equivalents

Examples

“The places people stayed in had small, simple rooms, affordable to the working class. It was only the outside walls that fought off the Great Depression blues. Mermaids swam in the etched glass and sun goddesses smiled in the bas-relief.”

“Why, every 20 years, does Japan rebuild its most sacred shrine, uprooting the sun goddess Amaterasu from her old sanctum and resettling her in a new one?”

“There are times when you know there is a god. In the case of Bath, it is the ancient sun goddess, Sul. It was Sul who directed the miraculous hot and sulphurous waters that have been used as a cure for aches and agues for thousands of years - or so Celtic tribes believed.”

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