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  • Its a long dark scary night but then the sungod/goddess starts coming back.

    And while we’re on the subject of Ask An Agnostic/Atheist « Dating Jesus 2009

  • Someone has actually named a car after the boy who so famously wrecked his sungod father's chariot and came close to frying the world.

    Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG: 2009

  • Someone has actually named a car after the boy who so famously wrecked his sungod father's chariot and came close to frying the world.

    A VW Phaeton, in Sunshine Beige please 2009

  • While I will be content once to see the sungod rise, and sack yon towers and fall upon their anchored fleet and slay the Achaeans; and on the morrow home from Ilium will I go, at one stroke ending all thy toil.

    Rhesus 2008

  • While I will be content once to see the sungod rise, and sack yon towers and fall upon their anchored fleet and slay the Achaeans; and on the morrow home from Ilium will I go, at one stroke ending all thy toil.

    Rhesus 2008

  • And thus Osiris was resurrected and restored to life well, at least a form of life - he's King of the Egyptian Underworld and by some accounts can only come out into daylight in the sacred sungod chariot where he flies across the arc of the sky - that's something that Walker did not talk about in her Absalom tale, the fact that king sacrifice was intimately linked with the concept of resurrection/rebirth.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Jan 2008

  • Dagh Bog was the sungod; Perun, the Thor of northern mythology, was the god of thunder; Stri Bog, the god of the winds; Voloss, the protector of flocks.

    The Story of Russia R. Van Bergen

  • Apollo was a sungod, of course; Hercules was a sungod; Samson was a sungod; Indra and Krishna, and even Christ, the same.

    Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

  • The sungod did grant him a glorious epiphany on that first day, springing, as it were, full panoplied out of a gulf of darkness.

    Roads from Rome 1901

  • From Elysium in his chariot descended then the sungod to nurse his infant daughter.

    Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales 1893

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