Sun

For Dyāvāpṛthivī, they two — benevolent to all, Ṛta-rich, the two wise ones who hold the realm — between the two fair-born, auspicious ones the pure Sun god and goddess move in accordance with the ordinance.

Visible in all quarters, worthy of hymning, praiseworthy, worthy of praise for great and small alike to live.

the sun rises from the earth;

Whatever impurity has climbed onto my face through some hostile deed — may the Sun sweep that away, as the wind sweeps śīpāla from water.

Just as gold shines at the rising of the sun, so may my face shine with golden color, O Aśvins.

May I be a conqueror like Indra, great in radiance like Agni, shining in all directions like the Sun, and like the ocean — hard to cross.

"Knowing Rāma's purity and his supreme greatness, the sun himself surely would not dare to scorch his body with his rays.

Surveying the entire city and thinking only of Rāma, the lamenting king entered his palace as the sun enters a cloud.

the sun gave no warmth to the world — the entire universe was thrown into confusion.

But where God, the fairest and most conspicuous of all, does not disdain through all time to care for men, surely a man who is god-beloved and prudent ought not to be burdened by such a task, but should, so far as he is able, imitate that god's power and humanity?

—making and distinguishing the seasons, increasing and nourishing all living things and all plants, furnishing the fairest and sweetest of sights, light, without which there is no benefit even in the other fair things, neither heavenly nor earthly—nay, not even in living;

And since the earth needs warmth in order to generate what grows, and to increase, and to bring to perfection, and living things need it both for the preservation of their bodies and for the pleasure that is according to nature, and we above all have need of it, as requiring the most help, he has made summer ever more and more, coming nearer to our dwelling, that he may make all things grow, nouri …

Indra, lord of this moving world, beholding the sun, lord of what stands firm.

Āditya, Viṣṇu, Sūrya, Brahmā, and Bṛhaspati —

truly you are great, O Āditya.

When the moon, situated below, becomes the coverer of the sun, then there is a solar eclipse.

Therein, the nature of an eclipse (*grahaṇa* (ग्रहण)) is in the *Sūryasiddhānta* (सूर्यसिद्धान्त):

When the moon, moving eastward, enters the earth's shadow cast by the sun situated in the west, then there is a lunar eclipse.

And Theia was subject in love to Hyperion and bore great Helius (Sun) and clear Selene (Moon) and Eos (Dawn) who shines upon all that are on earth and upon the deathless Gods who live in the wide heaven.

Thence they arise and go abroad by night, veiled in thick mist, and utter their song with lovely voice, praising Zeus the aegis-holder, and queenly Hera of Argos who walks on golden sandals, and the daughter of Zeus the aegis-holder bright-eyed Athena, and Phoebus Apollo, and Artemis who delights in arrows, and Poseidon the earth holder who shakes the earth, and revered Themis, and quick-glancing …

And Perseis, the daughter of Ocean, bore to unwearying Helios Circe and Aeetes the king.

As the Sun for eight months draws up water with its rays, so should he constantly draw taxes from his kingdom;

A king should follow the brilliant conduct of Indra, of the Sun, of the Wind, of Yama, of Varuṇa, of the Moon, of Agni, and of the Earth.

Through his power, he is Agni and he is the Wind, he is the Sun, he is Soma, he is the King of Dharma (Yama);

and next, for the Sun, a chariot drawn by white horses and wreathed with garlands like the other.

then they gave the horses to the flames in honour of the Sun;

Be ye my witnesses, O Earth and Sun, and virtue and Conscience, and Education, by which we distinguish the honorable and the base, that I have heard my country’s call, and have spoken.

and the Sun immediately drew in his wick to himself, and declared he would not give you light, if Cleon should be your general.

Wherefore, since the fire of the sun is like those fires which are in the bodies of living creatures, the sun too must be a living being, and likewise the rest of the stars which arise in that heavenly heat which is called ether or sky.

'Therefore,' he says, 'since the sun is fiery and is fed by the moisture of the Ocean' (for no fire can endure without some nourishment), 'it must of necessity be either like that fire which we employ for use and for living, or like that which is contained in the bodies of living creatures.

And first the sun, which holds the chief place among the stars, moves so that, when it has filled the lands with its broad light, it shadows the same now from these parts now from those;

yes, and Homer says that Aïdoneus was shot by Heracles, and Panyassis records that Helios was.

Jocasta:

she dreamt that she saw her father in the air overhead being washed by Zeus and anointed by Helios;

for he was washed by Zeus when it rained, and he was anointed by Helios as he exuded sweat from his body.

And you, too, daughter of the Sun, Circe the witch, come and cast cruel spells;

furthermore let Talthybios find me a boar from those that are with the host, and make it ready for sacrifice to Zeus and to the sun.

The other Achaeans sat where they were all silent and orderly to hear the king, and Agamemnon looked into the vault of heaven and prayed saying, "I call Zeus the first and mightiest of all gods to witness, I call also Earth and Sun and the Erinyes who dwell below and take vengeance on him who shall swear falsely, that I have laid no hand upon the girl Briseis, neither to take her to my bed nor oth …

but do what he might he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer recklessness in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Helios;

only tender-hearted Hecate, bright-coiffed, the daughter of Persaeus, heard the girl from her cave, and the lord Helios, Hyperion's bright son, as she cried to her father, the Son of Cronos.

So they came to Helios, who is watchman of both gods and men, and stood in front of his horses:

None other of the deathless gods is to blame, but only cloud-gathering Zeus who gave her to Hades, her father's brother, to be called his buxom wife.

the bright Son of Hyperion stopped his swift-footed horses a long while, until the maiden Pallas Athena had stripped the heavenly armour from her immortal shoulders.

And now, O Muse Calliope, daughter of Zeus, begin to sing of glowing Helios whom mild-eyed Euryphaessa, the far-shining one, bare to the Son of Earth and starry Heaven.

Then, when he has stayed his golden-yoked chariot and horses, he rests there upon the highest point of heaven, until he marvelously drives them down again through heaven to Ocean.

I reverence Helios greatly and the other gods, and you I love and him I dread.

Even the Sun will say, "I have come into being for some work," and so the other gods.

The sun seems to be poured down, and on every side indeed it is poured out, yet not poured away.

Socrates has been standing there in a study ever since dawn!