sun goddess

Noun

sun goddess (plural sun goddesses)

1. A female sun god.
   • The places people stayed in had small, simple rooms, affordable to the working class. It was only the outside walls that fought off the Great Depression blues. Mermaids swam in the etched glass and sun goddesses smiled in the bas-relief.1988 February 14, Barry Bearak, “Art Deco Rivival : Miami Beach Comes Back Into Vogue”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...
   • Why, every 20 years, does Japan rebuild its most sacred shrine, uprooting the sun goddess Amaterasu from her old sanctum and resettling her in a new one?1993 October 7, David E. Sanger, “Ise Journal; Sun Goddess's Sojourn (Will Shinto's Star Rise?)”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...

   Synonyms:

   solar goddess