| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Helia" | Greece | A solar goddess, one of the Heliades: a daughter of Helios and sister of Phaethon. Greece |
| God name "Horus" | Egypt | Horus the Younger A solar deity, god of the rising Sun, of light, Son of Osiris and Isis. The latter taught him the arts of magick and healing through oracles. He absorbed and was identified with the other Horus gods-the Heru group. Egypt |
| Goddess name "Iusaaset" | Egypt | The female counterpart of Tem and a solar goddess. Egypt |
"Kaliyuga" | Hindu | The last of the four Hindu periods contained in the great Yuga, equal to the Iron Age of clåśśic mythology. It consisted of 432,000 solar-sidereal years, and began 3,102 years before the Christian era. The bull, representing truth and right, has but one foot in this period, because all the world delights in wickedness. |
| Deities name "Kalki(n) (with white horse)" | Hindu / Vedic, Epic / Puranic | horse god. Possibly the tenth avatara of VIS'NU. He rewards the good and punishes evil. The counterpart of the Buddhist deity MAITREYA. horses became åśśociated with Divine kingship in ancient India because of their speed of movement. Solar deities were perceived to ride horses across the sky and horse sacrifice became highly significant. Kalki is depicted either anthropomorphically or with the head of a horse and has four arms. He is attended by a white horse. Attributes: arrow, conch, prayer wheel, shield and sword. Also Vis'nuyasas.... |
| King name "Kalmashapada" | Hindu | A king of the Solar race, son of Sudasa (hence he is called Saudasa), and a descendant of Ikshwaku. Saktri turned him into a man-eating goblin. Hindu |
"Kalpa" | India | A day and night of Brahma, a period of 4,320,000,000 solar-sidereal years. Some say there are an infinity of Kalpas, others limit the number to thirty. A Great Kalpa is a life of Brahma; the whole duration of time from the creation to the destruction of the world. |
| Deity name "Kinich Ahau" | Mayan | A solar deity and father of Itzamna. Mayan |
| Demon name "Kuvalaswa" | India | A prince of the Solar race, who had 21,000 sons. Attended by his sons he attacked the great Asura, Dhundhu, who lived in a sea of sand, and haråśśed the devotions of the pious sage Uttanka. They unearthed the demon and slew him. India |
| God name "Lahurati" | Elamite / Iran | A solar deity. Appears to have been the counterpart of the Akkadian god Ninurta. Elamite / Iran |
| Goddess name "Ma" | Cappadocian / Anatolia / Turkey | Fertility and vegetation goddess. The tutelary goddess of Pontic Comana, she was served by votary priestesses acting as sacred prostitutes, and biennial festivals were celebrated in her honor. Gradually she took on an added role as a warrior goddess with solar connotations and ultimately became syncretized with the Roman goddess BELLONA. On coins of the Comana region she is depicted with the radiate head of a solar deity carrying weapons and a shield.... |
| Goddess name "Marici" | Buddhist | Solar goddess Buddhist / China |
| Deity name "Nefertem aka Nefertum" | Egypt | Nefer-Tem, Nefer-Temu, the young Atum at the creation of the world had arisen from the primal waters. Since Atum was a solar deity, Nefertum represented Sunrise, and since Atum had arisen from the primal waters in the bud of an Egyptian blue water-lily, Nefertum was åśśociated with this flower. Egypt |
| God name "Nehebu-Kau" | Egypt | A serpent god who participated in the creation of the world when he swam around the solar boat of Re in the watery chaos. Egypt |
| Deity name "Ningirsu" | Sumeria | A solar deity. Sumeria |
| Goddess name "Nun" | Egypt | Primordial god. One of the eight deities of the OGDOAD representing chaos, he is coupled with the goddess NAUNET and appears in anthropomorphic form but with the head of a frog. No cult is addressed to Nun but he is typically depicted holding aloft the solar barque or the Sun disc. He may appear greeting the rising Sun in the guise of a baboon. Nun is otherwise symbolized by the presence of a sacred cistern or lake as in the sanctuaries of Karnak and Dendara.... |
"Priyavrata" | India | The Bhagavata-Purana states: "Priya-vrata being dissatisfied that only half the earth was illuminated at one time by the solar rays, followed the Sun seven times round the earth in his own flaming car of equal velocity, like another celestial orb, resolved to turn night into day." India |
| God name "Prthu" | Hindu | Creator god, noble king who ruled over India, mentioned in Vedic texts. This deity is head of the solar pantheon and introduced Agriculture to humankind. Hindu |
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