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solar goddess

noun

Definitions

  1. A female solar god.

    • This solar goddess the people call Kolyada, although no such being appears in the recognized list old Sclavonic deities; […]
    • The six statues, carved in black granite, are probably 3,300 year's old and depict a powerful solar goddess named Sekhmet, sometimes holding people's lives in her hands.
    • Until Japan’s defeat in the Second World War, Emperor Hirohito had been worshipped. He had denied his godhead, but Japanese schoolchildren were taught, as a scientific fact, that he was descended from the solar goddess Amaterasu.

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