sun godn.
/ˈsʌn ɡɒd/, U.S. /ˈsən ˌɡɑd/ The sun worshipped or personified as a god; a god identified or specially associated with the sun.In modern use usually with reference to polytheistic religions.
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sunOE
sun god?1592
flame-god1598
sun goddess1839
Aten1877
?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda i. iii. 86 There happened a sore drought..that the iucie grasse Was seared with the Sunne Gods Element.
1632 T. Heywood Iron Age i. sig. B4v Not for Troyes crowne or all the Sun-gods Gold.
1691 C. Mather Triumphs Reformed Relig. in Amer. iii. 81 There is with them, a Sun-God, a Moon-god.
1741 J. B. de Freval tr. N. A. Pluche Revisal 19 in tr. N. A. Pluche Hist. Heavens (ed. 2) II This Osiris, this sun-god so very famous in Egypt.
1831 T. Keightley Mythol. Anc. Greece & Italy 57 The ambitious youth instantly demanded permission to guide the solar chariot for one day, to prove himself thereby the undoubted progeny of the Sun-god.
1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind xii. 338 In the next myth..the Polynesian Sun-god Maui again makes his appearance.
1907 H. M. Chadwick Origin Eng. Nation x. 245 On the strength of this passage it has been supposed that Frey was originally a sky-god or sun-god.
1985 Times 9 Jan. 15/8 Peru will launch a new currency next month. The inti, worth 1000 sols, takes its name from the Sun God of the Inca empire.
2015 Brit. Mus. Mag. Winter 30/1 The ‘great god’ of Moses is called upon alongside the ancient Egyptian sun god Re in a 3rd-century ad magical handbook.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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