Their names used to reverberate through early morning prayers, fire rites, and sacred chants. As guardians of rain, fire, ...

The temple was built sometime during ancient Egypt's fifth dynasty (circa 2465 B.C. to 2323 B.C.) — a "period in which the cult of the sun reached its apex with the construction of a new type of ...

Apollo is the Ancient Greek god of the sun, was also associated with music, prophecy, and healing. Originally, Helios personified the suns daily journey. ...

A 3,000-year-old ancient Egyptian goddess figurine found on Israel’s Palmachim Beach. Courtesy of YOLI SCHWARTZ, ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY Hathor was an ancient Egyptian sun goddess ...

The ghostly profiles of ancient gods emerge from a ca. 3,000-year-old rock carving in Turkey. ... the moon god Sîn; the sun god Šamaš; and Atargatis, the region’s goddess of fertility.

Every evening the sun god, Kinich Ahau, made the perilous journey through Xibalba, the Maya underworld, to be born anew at sunrise. Solar eclipses were seen as a “broken sun ” – a sign of ...