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Re was the sun-god and creator of our world. He has a head like a hawk or a ram. The god wore ...
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For the Celts, who lived in central Europe, Lugh was a Sun god. The underworld god Balor was ...
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For the Aztecs, who lived in central Mexico, Tonatiuh was a Sun god. He was in charge of the ...
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Huitzilopochtli, was the Aztec god of the Sun and the war. He was a blue man fully armed with ...
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In Greek mythology, Apollo was the son of Zeus (Jupiter) and Leto (Letona). His twin sister ...
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Liza is a god of the Fon people of West Africa. Liza is represented by the fierce Sun. Usually ...
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According to ancient Chinese mythology, there existed ten suns that used to appear in turn ...
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Maui was a hero of Polynesian mythology. For Maui and his mother the days were too short. Maui ...
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Amaterasu was the Sun goddess of the oldest Japanese religion called Shinto. When her brother ...
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Shamash was a Sun god according to the Sumerian mythology. Sumerians were living more than ...
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Scientists know that more of the Sun’s energy gets to our planet than leaves. It hasn’t always been this way. More energy is sticking around as heat because there are more heat-trapping greenhouse gases...
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