7 sentences with 'sun'
Example sentences and phrases with the word sun and other words derived from it.
• « In Heliopolis, the city of the sun, incense was burnt three times a day to induce calm and revitalise sleep. »
• « Amun-Ra, the sun god, travelled by day and by night. It was in the night hours, precisely, that he travelled to the other world or Tuat. »
• « Gigantic statues of the gods stand there, and twice a year, the rising sun shines through the entrance and directly illuminates three of them, while the god of the underworld remains in shadow. »
• « He attempted to focus all the worship of the Egyptian people on one aspect of the sun god Ra, called Aten. »
• « The god Ahura Mazda was assisted by lesser gods such as Mithras, god of the sun and rebirth, and Anahita, goddess of water and the cosmos. »
• « Mithras, the Zoroastrian god of war, the sun and rebirth became immensely popular with the Romans. »