释义 |
ˈsun-god [Cf. MHG. sunnengot, G. sonnengott.] The sun regarded or personified as a god; a god identified or specially associated with the sun.
1592Soliman & Pers. i. iii. 86 There happened a sore drought..that the iucie grasse Was seared with the Sunne Gods Element. 1831Keightley Myth. Gr. & It. i. v. 57 The ambitious youth instantly demanded permission to guide the solar chariot for one day, to prove himself thereby the undoubted progeny of the Sun-god. 1880Encycl. Brit. XI. 749/2 Hermes is the sun-god as hidden during the night away among the souls of the dead. So ˈsun-ˌgoddess.
1861Bp. G. Smith Ten Weeks in Japan iv. 46 The great ‘Sun-goddess’..seems to be the principal object of divine adoration to the multitude. |