Sun.

sun

The source of light and heat and, consequently, of life to the whole world. Hence it is regarded as a deity and worshiped as such by all primitive peoples. It has a leading place in all mythologies. Shamash was the principal sun god of the Assyrians, Merodach of the Chaldees, Ormuzd of the Persians, Ra of the Egyptians, Tezcatlipoca of the Mexicans, and Helios (known to the Romans as Sol ) of the Greeks. Helios drove his chariot daily across the heavens, rising from the sea at dawn and sinking into it in the west at sunset. The Scandinavian sun god Sunna, who was in constant dread of being devoured by the Fenriswolf (a symbol of eclipses), was similarly borne through the sky. In later times Apollo was also a sun god of the Greeks, but he was the personification not of the sun itself but of its all - pervading light and life - giving qualities.