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238 results for “the sun” (all words) in Forces.
- Sun Wukong Deities · deities
Sun Wukong is the stone-born monkey of Wu Cheng'en's sixteenth-century novel Xiyou ji (Journey to the West), built on earlier Tang and Song storytelling and on older monkey and water-demon figures. He learns immortality, takes the Ruyi Jingu Bang from the Dragon King, erases his name from the registers of death, is pinned under the Five Elements Mountain by the Buddha after wrecking heaven, and becomes the Victorious Fighting Buddha at the end of the pilgrimage. The novel is fiction, but the cult of Qitian Dasheng, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, is a real and living one in Fujian, Taiwan and Chinese communities across Southeast Asia.
matched: the, sun - Amaterasu Deities · deities
Amaterasu is the Japanese sun goddess, ancestress of the imperial line, who withdraws into a cave when her brother ravages her weaving hall and is drawn out by music and a mirror. She is the light that can be lost by offence and returned by laughter.
matched: the, sun - Aten Deities · deities
Aten is the sun disk, and under Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV, c. 1353-1336 BCE) it became the sole object of royal worship - the first sustained monotheism in the Egyptian record. The Great Hymn to the Aten praises the disk as the source of all life, seen in its rays. After Akhenaten's death the cult was dismantled, the capital at Amarna abandoned, and his name erased from monuments.
matched: the, sun - Helios Deities · deities
Helios drives the chariot of the sun across the sky and sees everything that happens beneath it, which is why oaths are sworn before him. He is the witness of the day rather than its ruler: in Greek telling the sun is his work, not his throne.
matched: the, sun - Khepri Deities · deities
Khepri is the rising sun, the scarab-faced god who pushes the morning disk up out of the underworld as the beetle rolls its ball of dung. He is one of the three forms of the sun - Khepri at dawn, Ra at noon, Atum at evening - and the name means 'he who comes into being'; in the Amduat he takes the helm of the solar barque in the twelfth hour. The scarab amulet, including the heart scarab buried with the dead, carries his image and his promise of renewal.
matched: the, sun - Kuafu Deities · deities
Kuafu is the giant of the Shanhaijing who chased the sun from the east to the west, drinking the Yellow River and the Wei River and then the Great Sea to cool his thirst. He died on the way, and his staff became the Deng Forest, a grove of peach trees. The story is usually read as a parable of futile ambition, but the peach forest makes it also a story about what the pursuit leaves behind.
matched: the, sun - Shamash Deities · deities
Shamash is the Mesopotamian sun god who rises through the doors of heaven and judges, holding the saw of justice and the scales, and who gives the laws to Hammurabi. He sees everything and his light is a court.
matched: the, sun - Sol Deities · deities
Sol is the Roman sun, an old Italian god of the daylight who was later fused with the Greek Helios and then raised by the emperors into Sol Invictus, the Unconquered Sun whose birthday fell at the winter solstice. The separate feast of Sol Invictus is its own form here.
matched: the, sun - Sol Invictus Deities · deities
Sol Invictus is the Unconquered Sun of the later empire, promoted by Aurelian and made the companion of the emperor, with a festival on 25 December that outlived the cult itself. He is the sun as public guarantee: the light that does not lose, adopted by whoever holds power.
matched: the, sun - Surya Deities · deities
Surya is the Hindu sun, who rides a chariot of seven horses and whose worship is the daily greeting of the dawn. He is the physical sun and its witness: health, sight and the record of a day.
matched: the, sun - Utu Deities · deities
Utu is the Sumerian sun god, the Akkadian Shamash, the son of Nanna and Ningal and the brother of Inanna, who comes out of the eastern mountain, crosses the sky seeing everything and goes down into the underworld at night. His temples were the Ebabbar at Larsa and at Sippar, and he is the god of justice, of the traveller and of divination, the patron of the baru priests who read the signs. In the Gilgamesh epic he helps Gilgamesh and Enkidu against Humbaba and hears Gilgamesh's lament afterwards, and the Sumerian hymns call him the judge of the land.
matched: the, sun - Vairocana Deities · deities
Vairocana, the Great Sun, is the Buddha of the centre in the five-Buddha mandala and the figure the esoteric schools take as the dharmakaya itself — the body of the teaching rather than a person in a heaven. He is the central deity of two foundational tantras, the Mahavairocana-abhisambodhi tantra and the Sarvatathagatatattvasamgraha (Vajrasekhara), and so of the Shingon and Tendai traditions in Japan, where the great bronze at Todai-ji in Nara is him. In the Avatamsaka (Huayan) sutra he is the cosmic Buddha whose body is the whole of reality, a vision that shaped Chinese Huayan and Japanese Kegon. The Tibetan schools give the place of a single primordial Buddha to Samantabhadra (Nyingma) or Vajradhara (Gelug) instead, which is a difference of scheme rather than a denial of Vairocana.
matched: the, sun - The Divine Child Archetypes · archetypes
The Divine Child is an archetype of wonder, innocence and potential. Its light aspect is wonder, innocence and potential, and its shadow is immaturity, dependency and tantrums.
matched: the, sun - The Dagda Deities · deities
The Dagda is the Irish father of the gods, owner of the club that kills and revives, the cauldron that never empties, and the oak harp that orders the seasons. He is mocked in the stories and indispensable in them: the king who is also the host, the provider and the buffoon.
matched: the, sun - Freya the Warrior Deities · deities
Freya the Warrior is Freyja in her battle aspect, who takes half the slain for Folkvangr and who taught seidr to the gods. She is kept as her own form because the magic and the war are read as a different working from the goddess of love and gold; this is a modern devotional aspect-form, not an attested separate goddess or ancient cult.
matched: the, sun - The Hero Archetypes · archetypes
The Hero is an archetype of courage, journey and transformation. Its light aspect is courage, determination and self sacrifice, and its shadow is hubris, recklessness and savior complex.
matched: the, sun - Aine Deities · deities
Aine is the Irish goddess of the midsummer sun and of Knockainey hill, who is pursued by a mortal king and takes her revenge, and who is also the queen of the local sidhe. She is sovereignty in its double form: given, taken, and answered.
matched: the, sun - Atum Deities · deities
Atum is the Heliopolitan creator, the first god, who emerged self-made on the benben mound out of the waters of Nun. He produced Shu and Tefnut - sneezed or spat out in the Pyramid Texts, masturbated in other accounts - and so began the Ennead. He is the evening sun, the 'Complete One' who receives the dead king and returns to the waters at the end of the cycle, and in the Book of the Dead he rises from chaos in serpent form.
matched: the, sun - Chalchiuhtlicue Deities · deities
Chalchiuhtlicue is the Aztec goddess of rivers, seas and birth, who presides over the day-sign and trecena of water and ended the fourth sun in a flood; she is the patroness of childbirth and of those who die in childbirth, though the steam bath (temazcal) belongs to Temazcalteci and Tlazolteotl rather than to her. She is water as the giver of life and the end of the world at once.
matched: the, sun - Chandra Deities · deities
Chandra is the Vedic moon, the cup of soma and the lord of plants, whose waxing and waning is a story of the gods drinking him down and the sun restoring him. He rules the mind and the night and the growing of everything green.
matched: the, sun - Changing Woman Deities · deities
Asdzaa Nadlehee, Changing Woman, is the central female sacred being of the Dine (Navajo) emergence tradition: raised by First Man and First Woman, mother of the Hero Twins by the Sun, she becomes young and old with the seasons. The four-day Kinaalda puberty ceremony is modelled on her first change, and she is the mother of the people. The narrative is given in the Dine bahane' (see Paul Zolbrod's 1984 translation) and in the ceremonial literature. She is a sacred being, not a goddess.
matched: the, sun - Daedalus Deities · deities
Daedalus is the Athenian craftsman, son of Metion, who killed his nephew Perdix - the boy who had invented the saw - and fled to Crete, where he built the labyrinth, the dancing-floor that Homer names at Knossos (Iliad 18.590-592), and the wooden cow for Pasiphae. He made wings of feathers and wax for himself and Icarus, and Icarus flew too near the sun (Ovid, Metamorphoses VIII.183-235; Apollodorus, Epitome 1). Pausanias, who counts two surviving works of Daedalus in Boeotia and is sceptical about the rest, is the ancient reader who takes the attributions with a grain of salt (9.40.3-4).
matched: the, sun - Dazhbog Deities · deities
Dazhbog is a solar god and one of the six idols Vladimir erected in Kiev in 980 according to the Primary Chronicle, and one of the very few Slavic gods whose worship is attested across the Slavic lands. The Primary Chronicle's 1114 entry, following the Slavonic translation of John Malalas, makes him the son of Svarog and says he was called the Sun, and The Tale of Igor's Campaign calls the Rus 'Dazhbog's descendants'. Whether he was the sun itself, a giver of wealth, or a culture hero is disputed, because no narrative of him survives.
matched: the, sun - Erlang Shen Deities · deities
Erlang Shen is the three-eyed martial god of Guanjiangkou in Sichuan, nephew of the Jade Emperor and son of a mortal and a goddess. He is a god of water and of the engineers who control it, associated with Li Bing's Dujiangyan works and with the theatre; his dog, the Xiaotianquan, bites through disguise. In the Journey to the West he fights Sun Wukong to a standstill, matching the monkey's seventy-two transformations with his own and seeing through them with the third eye.
matched: the, sun - Horus Deities · deities
Egyptian falcon god, son of Osiris and Isis. Avenged his father's murder by Set. Lost eye in battle, which became powerful protective symbol. Won kingship through trial. Represents rightful sovereignty reclaimed, divine kingship, protection. Sky god whose eyes are sun and moon. Pharaohs as living Horus.
matched: the, sun - Huitzilopochtli Deities · deities
Huitzilopochtli is the Aztec patron of the Mexica, the hummingbird of the south, born fully armed from his mother and killing his sister, who leads the people to their city and whose sun must be fed to keep rising. He is the god of a nation and of what nations do.
matched: the, sun - Hyperion Deities · deities
Hyperion is a Titan, son of Earth and Sky and brother of Theia, and by her the father of Helios, Selene and Eos. His name means 'he who goes above' and in the early poets it works as a description of the sun's height rather than as a separate career. In Homer 'Hyperion Helios' is a fixed formula, which has left it genuinely uncertain whether the epic tradition knew one figure or two. He has no myth of his own: his importance is genealogical, and his domain is the light out of which sun, moon and dawn are parcelled to his children.
matched: the, sun - Hypnos Deities · deities
Hypnos is Sleep itself, a son of Night in Hesiod's genealogy and the twin of Death, and the old telling calls the two of them gentle. He lives in a cave near the land of the Cimmerians where the sun never reaches, and the river Lethe runs through it. In the Iliad Hera bribes him with the hand of the Grace Pasithea to lull Zeus, and he does it, which is a reminder that sleep can be used. He is neither punisher nor rewarder: he is the loosening.
matched: the, sun - Ilmatar Deities · deities
Ilmatar, 'daughter of the air', also called Luonnotar, is the Kalevala's primordial being: a virgin spirit who descends from the air into the sea, is made pregnant by the wind and the water, and drifts pregnant for centuries until a scaup's eggs break on her knee and become the sky, the earth, the sun and the moon. She is Väinämöinen's mother and the epic's creation figure, but not the object of any cult. Lönnrot built the first runo from scattered creation charms and folk cosmology rather than from a single inherited narrative, which is why the details vary between tellings.
matched: the, sun - Imentet Deities · deities
Imentet is the personification of the west — the land of the dead, where the sun sets — and her name is simply 'the West'; she is shown as a woman wearing the west hieroglyph on her head, standing at the edge of the tomb to receive the dead. She appears in New Kingdom tomb and coffin decoration and in the Books of the Underworld, welcoming the deceased and the setting sun, and in the Book of the Dead she is among the goddesses who greet the justified dead. She was early absorbed into Hathor and Isis, both of whom carry the title 'Lady of the West', so that most of her later appearances are as an aspect of one of them.
matched: the, sun - Itzpapalotl Deities · deities
Itzpapalotl, Obsidian Butterfly, is a Tzitzimitl: one of the star demons who come down when the sun is eaten by an eclipse and who will come at the end of the present sun to devour the people. In the Leyenda de los Soles in the Codex Chimalpopoca she is among the Mimixcoa whom Mixcoatl-Camaxtli and his brothers ambush and kill, and she is burned; some tellings also make her the mother of the Mimixcoa, and modern studies link her with death in infancy. The Codex Borgia shows her with wings of obsidian blades, eagle or jaguar claws and a star about her head.
matched: the, sun - Kukulkan Deities · deities
Kukulkan is the Yucatec Maya feathered serpent, known from the books of Chilam Balam and the colonial Yucatec sources as the civilising founder who came from the west, ruled at Chichen Itza and Mayapan, and departed over the sea promising to return. The identification with the Central Mexican Quetzalcoatl is traditional in the colonial sources, but how far the two are one figure is debated by scholars and the entry does not settle it. At El Castillo the setting sun throws a shadow-serpent down the north stair around the equinoxes: the effect is real, while the claim that the pyramid was deliberately built to mark the equinox is a modern interpretation.
matched: the, sun - Leto Deities · deities
Leto is the Titaness who, pregnant by Zeus, is driven across the world by Hera's refusal to let her give birth on any land that receives the sun, and who finally delivers Apollo and Artemis on the floating island of Delos after it is anchored. The refused-water episode in Lycia, where she turns the peasants into frogs, is told in Ovid's Metamorphoses 6.317-381; in the Iliad she heals Aeneas (5.445) and faces Hermes in the theomachy (21.497-504). She is a mother but not a passive one: the Niobe story ends with her children killing Niobe's, and the cruelty of that is hers as much as her twins'. Delos became one of the great sanctuaries of the Greek world because of her.
matched: the, sun - Maahes Deities · deities
Maahes is the lion-headed god of war whose name means 'he who is true beside her' and who is the son of Ptah and of the feline goddess — Bastet at Bubastis, Sekhmet at Leontopolis — sharing their lion nature. His cult centred on Taremu (Greek Leontopolis) in the Delta and on Per-Bast, and he is shown with a knife and a lotus and called the protector of the sun barque who devours the enemies of order. His mythology survives largely as epithet and iconography rather than as narrative: the lion who guards the god and the king.
matched: the, sun - Macha Deities · deities
Macha is a name shared by several early Irish figures: the wife of Nemed, buried at Armagh (Ard Mhacha); Macha Mong Ruad, daughter of Áed Rúad and the only woman in the list of Tara's kings, who laid out Emain Macha with her neck-brooch; and the Macha of Noínden Ulad, the farmer Cruinniuc's wife, forced by the king of Ulster to race his horses while pregnant. She wins, gives birth to twins, and curses the men of Ulster to be as weak as a woman in labour in their hour of need. The Dindshenchas calls her 'the Sun of Womanfolk' and names her among the Morrígna.
matched: the, sun - Melek Taus Deities · deities
Yazidi Peacock Angel, leader of the seven Divine Beings (heft sirr) whom God created before the world and entrusted with its affairs; an emanation of God, a good and benevolent angel who is neither fallen nor disgraced, who passed a test and made the cosmos from the Cosmic egg, and who is Lord of this world - responsible for all that happens in it, good and bad. His emblem is the peacock: its colours are the diversity of nature and its fanned tail the rays of the sun at dawn; the first Wednesday of Nisan (Sersal, the Yazidi New Year) is his descent to earth as light. The 'refused to bow to Adam', 'wept for thousands of years' and 'extinguished the fires of hell' narratives are foreign to Yazidism (attributed to later Muslim or Christian hands), and identifying him with Lucifer or Satan is a misconception that has fuelled centuries of persecution; Yazidis hold him to be no source of evil.
matched: the, sun - Mithra Deities · deities
Mithra is the Iranian yazata of the covenant (Avestan mithra, 'contract'), whose great hymn is Yasht 10 of the Avesta: he stands between the parties to an agreement, sees every breach with his thousand ears and ten thousand eyes, and rides ahead of the sun in a chariot of gold. He is named with Ahura Mazda and Anahita in the inscriptions of Artaxerxes II, and his cult spread through Anatolia and Commagene - where his name is fused with Apollo-Helios - into the Roman world, where he became the Mithras of the mysteries. The Roman Mithras is a separate development with its own entry.
matched: the, sun - Mithras Deities · deities
Mithras is the Persian god of the covenant who becomes, in the Roman mysteries, the figure who kills a bull in a cave while the sun and moon look on, and through whose blood the world is renewed. His cult was the soldier's religion of the empire, with seven grades of initiation and no women.
matched: the, sun - Nergal Deities · deities
Mesopotamian god of war, plague, and underworld. Married Ereshkigal and became king of the dead. Represents destructive aspect of sun—summer heat that scorches and kills. War god who brings plague, death, necessary destruction. Teaches that some destruction is natural, that heat can kill as well as nurture, that underworld needs king as well as queen.
matched: the, sun - Nut Deities · deities
Nut is the sky itself, the woman covered in stars who arches over Geb and is held apart from him by Shu, and the mother of Osiris, Isis, Set and Nephthys. Each evening she swallows the sun and each dawn gives it birth again, and the stars are her body; the dead king enters her and becomes a star. She is also a cow, a sow suckling the stars, and the sycamore at the edge of the sky, and the inside of the coffin lid is painted with her.
matched: the, sun - Orpheus Deities · deities
Orpheus is the Thracian singer, son of the Muse Calliope and Oeagrus (Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.23-34), whose song moved trees and stones and who sailed with the Argonauts. His wife Eurydice died, he went down after her, and he lost her by looking back; Virgil tells it in the Georgics (IV.453-527) and Ovid in the Metamorphoses (X-XI). He was killed by Thracian women, and Pausanias - who doubts the descent and the Muse for a mother - records the tomb at Leibethra under Olympus and the oracle of Dionysus that foretold the city's fall when the sun should see his bones (9.30.4-11).
matched: the, sun - Pangu Deities · deities
Pangu is the cosmic giant of Chinese cosmogony. The world began as an egg; when it broke, the light and clear part rose to make the sky and the heavy, turbid part sank to make the earth. Pangu grew between them, ten feet a day for eighteen thousand years, until the sky and earth were far enough apart to stay. When he died his body became the world: breath the wind, voice the thunder, eyes the sun and moon, blood the rivers, hair the stars.
matched: the, sun - Rahu Deities · deities
Rahu is the ascending lunar node, the shadow planet (chhaya graha) of Vedic astrology: the severed head of the asura who drank the amrita and was beheaded by Vishnu. The head and tail, Rahu and Ketu, swallow the sun and moon to cause eclipses. He is invoked for relief from the nodes' effects and for ambition, foreign travel and sudden change.
matched: the, sun - Saulė Deities · deities
Saulė (Latvian Saule) is the Baltic sun and a goddess, not a metaphor: in the Lithuanian and Latvian dainos she is a mother with daughters (Saulės dukros, Saules meitas) who bathes, weeps, warms the orphan and rides across the sky. She is married to Mėnuo (Mēness, the moon) in the celestial-wedding cycle, and when he betrays her with the morning star Perkūnas cuts him - the waning moon is the wound. The material is overwhelmingly the daina corpus plus the 16th-17th century reports; no Baltic sun temple survives, and her cult image later merged with the Virgin Mary in Lithuanian folk Catholicism.
matched: the, sun - Selene Deities · deities
Greek Titaness and personification of the Moon itself. Daughter of Hyperion and Theia, sister to Helios (Sun) and Eos (Dawn). Drives her moon chariot across the night sky, bringing gentle lunar light. Known for her love of Endymion, whom she visits nightly. Represents the moon in its pure, personified form—gentle, illuminating, cyclical. More accessible and positive than Hecate's darker lunar aspects.
matched: the, sun - Shani Deities · deities
Shani is the Hindu Saturn, the son of the sun who does not look up when his father arrives and is given the lordship of time and karma in punishment or in consequence. He gives each person the fruit of their own actions, slowly.
matched: the, sun - Sunna Deities · deities
Sunna is the Norse sun, who drives the chariot of the day ahead of the wolf Skoll and does not stop until the world ends. She is the light as a daily act of endurance rather than a throne.
matched: the, sun - Surtr Deities · deities
Surtr is the fire giant who stands at the edge of Muspelheim. At Ragnarok he comes from the south with a flaming sword that is brighter than the sun, meets Freyr - who has given his own sword away and so fights unarmed - and sets the world alight. The earth sinks into the sea and rises again green. Snorri names him first among the giants in Gylfaginning; Voluspa has the fire come from the south with the suns of the destroyer.
matched: the, sun - Taweret Deities · deities
Taweret is the hippopotamus goddess who protects women in pregnancy and childbirth and stands at the birth house with Bes, holding the sa-amulet and a knife, pregnant herself, lion-legged and with a crocodile's tail. She has no myth cycle and no temple of her own; her power is carried on the ivory birth wands, the amulets and the household objects, and as 'Mistress of Pure Water' she also guards the dead into rebirth. In the late temple at Karnak she is one of the hippopotamus mothers of the sun, and she is not Ammit, the devourer.
matched: the, sun - Tepeyollotl Deities · deities
Tepeyollotl, Heart of the Mountain, is the jaguar of the cave and the earthquake, one of the aspects of Tezcatlipoca, shown in the Florentine Codex and the Codex Borgia with jaguar features and the smoking mirror. He is the darkness inside the hill, the roar that comes back off the rock, and the sun in its night journey under the earth. He is an aspect rather than a separate god, and the sources present him as a face of Tezcatlipoca turned toward the ground.
matched: the, sun - Tsukuyomi Deities · deities
Tsukuyomi is the moon kami born from Izanagi's right eye during his purification at the Tachibana River, one of the three noble children, and in the Kojiki he is given rule over the night. The Nihon Shoki tells how, sent to wait on Uke-mochi, the goddess of food, he found her producing food from her nose, mouth and rectum, took it for pollution and killed her; Amaterasu was so appalled that she moved to another part of the sky, and that is why sun and moon are apart. The Kojiki transfers the same killing to Susanoo and Ogetsuhime.
matched: the, sun - Wepwawet Deities · deities
Wepwawet means 'opener of the ways' and he is the jackal — or, to the Greeks, wolf — god of Asyut in Upper Egypt, shown on the first standard of the royal procession and at the prow of the sun barque, clearing the road for the king and for Ra. In the Osiris mysteries at Abydos he goes before the god, and that role in the funeral procession makes him a guide of the dead as well as a scout for the living. An inscription in the Sinai records that he 'opens the way' for King Sekhemkhet's victory, and his standard led the procession in life and in the funeral.
matched: the, sun - Xolotl Deities · deities
Xolotl is the dog-headed twin of Quetzalcoatl, the evening star, the god of twins, doubles, monsters and the ballgame, and the guide who swims the river of the underworld with the dead. The Leyenda de los Soles in the Codex Chimalpopoca tells how, when the gods had to die for the fifth sun to move, Xolotl refused, wept until his eyes swelled, and hid himself as a double-stalked maize plant and then a double-stalked maguey and at last as the axolotl in the water, and was killed anyway - the axolotl still carries his name. Sahagun (Book 7) describes him as the evening star and the twin, and the dogs that were buried with the dead are his.
matched: the, sun - Abraxas Deities · deities
Abraxas (Abrasax) is the name at the centre of the Basilidian system reported by Irenaeus (Against Heresies 1.24): the Greek letters of Abrasax sum to 365, the number of the days of the year and of the heavens in that system, so that the name is the name of the whole year and of the power that governs it. From the second century the name crowds the Graeco-Egyptian magical gems, engraved on amulets beside a cock-headed, serpent-legged figure with a whip and shield and invoked with IAO and Sabaoth as a protective name of power. Carl Jung took Abraxas up in the Seven Sermons to the Dead (1916) as the god beyond good and evil, and through Hermann Hesse's Demian the figure entered modern occultism.
matched: the, sun - Aglaea Deities · deities
Aglaea, splendour, is one of the Charites - the Graces - and Hesiod makes the three daughters of Zeus and Eurynome, an Oceanid, naming them Aglaea, Euphrosyne and Thalia (Theogony 907-911). In the same poem she is the youngest of the three and the wife of Hephaestus (945-946). Homer knows the Charites only as a group attending Aphrodite, and in Iliad 14 he gives Pasithea as one of them, so both names and number moved before Hesiod fixed them. Their great cult was at Orchomenus in Boeotia, for which Pindar wrote the fourteenth Olympian.
matched: the, sun - Agni Deities · deities
Agni is the Vedic fire, the mouth of the gods through whom every offering is carried, and the flame in the hearth and in the belly. He is the priest of the sacrifice and the sacrifice itself, and without him nothing reaches anyone.
matched: the, sun - Ahura Mazda Deities · deities
Ahura Mazda, 'the Wise Lord', is the supreme god of the Gathas of Zarathushtra (Yasna 28-53) and of the later Avesta: uncreated, the source of asha (truth and cosmic order) against druj (the lie), and the maker of the good creation. The Avesta reaches him through the Amesha Spentas, the six 'bounteous immortals' who are at once his attributes and his agents, and the Pahlavi books (Bundahishn, Denkard) develop the cosmogony around him. Zoroastrian worship is aniconic, conducted before a sacred fire, and the winged disc or winged figure of Achaemenid reliefs is often called his image although the identification is disputed.
matched: the, sun - Allah Deities · deities
Allah is the Arabic word for God, used by Arabic-speaking Christians, Jews and Muslims alike, and in Islam the one without image, partner or pantheon, whose ninety-nine names describe rather than divide him. He is included as the one God of a living tradition, and the correspondences given here are reception.
matched: the, sun - Ame-no-Uzume Deities · deities
When Amaterasu withdrew into a cave and the world went dark, Ame-no-Uzume turned a tub upside down, danced on it, and made the assembled gods laugh so loudly that Amaterasu looked out to see what was happening - and was shown her own reflection in a mirror, and came out. She is the kami of dawn and mirth, and the dance is the first kagura.
matched: the, sun - Amitabha Deities · deities
Amitabha, the Buddha of Infinite Light, is the central figure of the Pure Land sutras: as the bodhisattva Dharmakara he made a series of vows (forty-eight in the Longer Sukhavati-vyuha Sutra) to establish a land in which any being who calls on his name may be reborn and awaken there. That land is Sukhavati, the Land of Bliss, in the west; he is flanked by Avalokiteshvara and Mahasthamaprapta, and in Tibetan practice he also appears as Amitayus, the red Buddha of long life, who is a distinct figure with his own ritual. Devotion to him is the basis of the East Asian Pure Land schools and of much Tibetan practice, and his image sits in the crown of Guanyin's statue.
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