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Here, Apollo appears in his role as a solar deity, standing atop a celestial sphere and sending forth arrows that signify the rays of the sun. The print depicts the moment when night, symbolized by Apollo's sister Diana, goddess of the moon, gives way to day. Devoted to the hunt, the chaste Diana (the Greek Artemis) is accompanied by a deer.
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As a solar deity, she ... taught that sunlight and water could be used for healing, especially the eyes. She advised sufferers to find a clean, clear spring, or fast moving body of fresh water, sparkling with sunlight, and lathe it on sore eyes for a restorative cure. In Catholic tradition, they pray to Saint Brigit for eye maladies.
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H[O]rbehutet, the Egyptian winged disk, who was believed to be a solar-deity who accompanied the sun god, Re, as he made his daily journey across Egypt for the purpose of protecting him from evil. His symbol was placed over gates and doors of temples to prevent malign influences within. A.G.H.
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Arecurius appears to have been a pseudonym of the sun god Apollo, and was possibly worshipped separately as a distinct Celtic or Germanic solar deity (see Arciarcon above). The god is otherwise unrecorded in the Roman Empire.
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In Africa ancient Egypt was the main centre from which solar deity concepts emanated. The solar religion, promoted by the state, was concerned with the sun god Re (Atum-Re, Amon-Re, Chnum-Re), the sun falcon Horus, the scarab Chepre, and a divine kingdom that was determined by the sun (e.g., pharaoh Akhenaton's solar monotheism c. 1350 BC).
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