Mythic Monday: Six Summer Solstice Celestials

Summer Solstice celebrates the time of the greatest light in the northern hemisphere. The day is the longest of the year and the beginning of summer. How interesting that with the hottest season starting, the length of days now decreases for the rest of the year, culminating in the Winter Solstice or the shortest day and longest night. The Wheel of the Year goes round and round. Here are six mythological deities associated with the sun.

Ameratsu – Japanese sun goddess from whom ancient ruling families were descended. She was called “the glorious one.”

Glory-of-Elves – Scandinavian sun goddess. After doomsday or the end of the world as we know it, Glory-of-Elves would give birth to a daughter who would be the sun of the next world.

Atthar – Ancient Arabic sun goddess known as the “torch of the gods.”

Surya – Indian sun god and one of the three main gods in the Vedas. His being constitutes the celestial form of fire. His wife is Purusa, or dawn.

Sulis – Celtic sun goddess whose name also means “eye.” She was known as Sol to the Norweigians, Sunna to the Germans, and Sul in Britain where she was worshipped at Silbury Hill.

Ra – Egyptian sun god called “the shining one.” During the day he glided through the sky in a solar ship, traveled down through the underworld at night, and rose again from the great waters of the East each morning. A hymn began “Oh thou who arises in the horizon.”

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