In ancient India, the intoxicating drink made from the soma plant, which played a crucial role in the Vedic sacrificial rites and which was personified as a deity Soma was regarded as the vital sap in all living beings, and its ritual extraction was a...

(1) Roman sun-god, corresponding to the Greek → Hélios. His temple stood on the Quirinal, and as patron of the chariot teams he had a second temple in the Circus Maximus. During the Empire period, the designation Sol invictus was transferred...

(better known as Harsomtus=‘uniter of the two lands’) A god revered in the ancient Egyptian city of Dendera: creator and child of the sun. Late temple pictures show him as a snake or a lotus...

In Norse mythology, Sól is the goddess of the Sun, a daughter of Mundilfari and Glaur and the wife of Glen, and the name of the Younger Futhark s rune. The corresponding Old English name is Siȝel (/ˈsɪ jel/), continuing Proto-Germanic *Sôwilô or...