His original character was that of a solar deity, and he personifies more specifically the sun of the spring-time who conquers the storms of the winter season.
It may appear strange, in view of this original character of Marduk, that neither in the inscriptions of Hammurabi, nor in those of his successors, is there any direct reference to his qualities as a solar deity.
It has been satisfactorily shown[120] that Marduk was originally a solar deity.
Her name signifies 'the destructive lady,'--an appropriate epithet for the consort of a solar deity.
It was regarded as an avatar or incarnation of a solar deity.
Thus, a hawk stands for a solar deity; the bird ibis, for the god Thoth; a seated figure with a curved beard, for a god.
On the pyramidion of the obelisk he is represented by a sphinx presenting gifts of water and wine to Tum, the setting sun, a solar deity worshipped at Heliopolis.
Horus is a solar deity, and represented the rising sun, or the sun in the horizon.
We meet, for instance, a personage called Nudd or Lludd, evidently a solar deity.
Crom Cruach was no doubt a solar deity, but no figure at all resembling him can be identified among the Danaan divinities.
Attis tended more and more to become a solar deityin the age which culminated in the sun-worship of Julian.
Again it is quite possible for a solar deity to have an underworld connexion, seeing that the sun is supposed to travel through that gloomy region during the night.
Having passed the gate of the Mountain of the Sunset (by virtue of his character as a solar deity) Gilgamesh traversed the region of thick darkness during the space of twelve kasbu.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "solar deity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
