sun goddess

sun goddess (plural sun goddesses)

1. A female sun god.

   Synonym: solar goddess

   Coordinate term: moon goddess

   • 1988 February 14, Barry Bearak, “Art Deco Rivival : Miami Beach Comes Back Into Vogue”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[1], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 November 2025:

     The places people stayed in had small, simple rooms, affordable to the working class. It was only the outside walls that fought off the Great Depression blues. Mermaids swam in the etched glass and sun goddesses smiled in the bas-relief.

   • 1993 October 7, David E. Sanger, “Ise Journal; Sun Goddess's Sojourn (Will Shinto's Star Rise?)”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 November 2013:

     Why, every 20 years, does Japan rebuild its most sacred shrine, uprooting the sun goddess Amaterasu from her old sanctum and resettling her in a new one?

   • 2003 September 15, Jonathan Glancey, “In hot water”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎^[3], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 September 2014:

     There are times when you know there is a god. In the case of Bath, it is the ancient sun goddess, Sul. It was Sul who directed the miraculous hot and sulphurous waters that have been used as a cure for aches and agues for thousands of years - or so Celtic tribes believed.