The Inca leadership encouraged the worship of their gods, the foremost of which was Inti, the sun god.
In the 13th century, local tribes held an annual ceremony in which they sacrificed virgins to their Gods: Solis, the god of the sun, and Lunis, the goddess of the moon.
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Described as a Sun god, protector of flocks and vegetation, and therefore he has been equated with Nergal.
In the mythology of the Aboriginal people of south-eastern Australia (specifically, the Wotjobaluk people who spoke the Wergaia language), Gnowee is a solar goddess whose torch is the Sun.
They used their hereditary influence over the cult of sun-deity Elagabalus (the Latinised form of El-Gabal) to proclaim Soaemias' son Elagabalus (named for his family's patron deity) as the true successor to Caracalla.
The front cover designed by Peter Willis is a reference to the Emerald Tablet, or the maxim "As Above, So Below" and portrays the male solar deity on the bottom while the small crescent on top represents the female lunar deity.
Gun Ana (Turkish: Gün Ana, Kyrgyz: Күн Эне, Kazakh: Күн Ана, Sakha: Күн Ий̃э, Balkar: Кюн Ана, Ottoman: گون آنا) is the common Turkic solar deity, treated as a goddess in the Kazakh and Kyrgyz mythologies.
In Hinduism, Surya (Devanagari: सूर्य, sūrya) is the chief solar deity, son of Dyaus Pitar.