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    Solar deity (redirect from Sun chariot)
    invention of the chariot in the 2nd millennium BC. The reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European religion features a "solar chariot" or "sun chariot" with which...
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    Trundholm sun chariot (Danish: Solvognen) is a Nordic Bronze Age artifact discovered in Denmark. It is a representation of the sun chariot, a bronze statue...
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  • The Sun Chariot Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to fillies and mares aged three years or older. It is run on the Rowley Mile...
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    symbol derived from the interpretation of the disc of the Sun as the wheel of the chariot of the Sun god. Wieseler (1881) postulated an (unattested) Gothic...
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    horses Árvakr and Alsviðr that drew the chariot of the sun. High says that the gods had created the chariot to illuminate the worlds from burning embers...
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    Solar symbol (redirect from Sun symbols)
    culture that celebrated the Sun chariot, the wheel may thus have had a solar connotation (c.f. the Trundholm sun chariot). The Arevakhach ("solar cross")...
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    he was Helios, carried by a chariot drawn by fiery horses. From the reign of Elagabalus in the late Roman Empire the Sun's birthday was a holiday celebrated...
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    A chariot is a type of cart driven by a charioteer, usually using horses to provide rapid motive power. The oldest known chariots have been found in burials...
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    Helios (redirect from Helios, the sun)
    Corinth. Helios' journey on a chariot during the day and travel with a boat in the ocean at night possibly reflects the Egyptian sun god Ra sailing across the...
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    with the horses that draw Sun's chariot. The association between the sun and shields is noted both in Þórsdrápa, in which the sun is described as 'the splendid...
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  • Sun Chariot (foaled 1939 in Ireland, died 1963) was a Thoroughbred racehorse who achieved the English Fillies Triple Crown by winning the 1,000 Guineas...
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    hostile and even deviant towards the legendary dragons that drew the sun chariot as a vehicle for the passage of time. The following is the relevant excerpt...
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    the biga represents the moon, as the quadriga does the sun. The earliest reference to a chariot race in Western literature is an event in the funeral games...
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    Phaethon (category Solar chariot)
    confirmed, travels to the sun god's palace in the east. He is recognised by his father and asks for the privilege of driving his chariot for a single day. Despite...
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    understanding was modified by assuming that the Sun is transported across the sky in a boat or a chariot, and transported back to the place of sunrise during...
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  • kenning in Norse mythology. It is ambiguous, referring both to the sun-chariot of the sun goddess Sól (for example, Alfröðull is said to shine in Skírnismál...
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    Chariot burials are tombs in which the deceased was buried together with their chariot, usually including their horses and other possessions. An instance...
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    mythologies of cultures around the world. They are often associated with the sun chariot, with warrior-heroes, with fertility (in both mare and stallion manifestations)...
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    Their species is not entirely consistent, though in most cases the sun chariot is apparently associated with equids: "choice steeds" (niskum) in an...
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    209-feet-tall Raja Gopura, is one of the tallest. There are statues of Sun Chariot on the side of a park, a pool, statues depicting Arjuna receiving Geetopadesham...
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    brought two more Group 1 victories for Levey. In October he won the Sun Chariot Stakes at Newmarket on board Billesdon Brook and the Queen Elizabeth...
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    scorpion encountered Phaethon while he was driving his father Helios' Sun Chariot. The Babylonians called this constellation MUL.GIR.TAB - the 'Scorpion';...
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    burial mounds, which left an abundance of findings including lurs and the Sun Chariot. During the Pre-Roman Iron Age (500 BC – AD 1), native groups began migrating...
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    Quadriga (redirect from Four-horse chariot)
    A quadriga[needs IPA] is a car or chariot drawn by four horses abreast and favoured for chariot racing in classical antiquity and the Roman Empire. The...
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    a cloud. Salon of Mars Ceiling in the Salon of Apollo, depicting the Sun Chariot of Apollo Bust of Louis XIV by Bernini in the Salon of Diana The Salon...
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    The identification of the Sun with a wheel, or a chariot, has parallels in Germanic, Greek and Vedic mythology (see sun chariot).[citation needed] Stone...
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    time) after he broke a leg at Salisbury in May 1941. On George VI's Sun Chariot in 1942, he won the Fillies' Triple Crown of 1,000 Guineas, Oaks and...
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    Titans Hyperion and Theia, and sister of the sun god Helios and the dawn goddess Eos. She drives her moon chariot across the heavens. Several lovers are attributed...
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    7 November 2017. "2014 Sun Chariot Stakes Result". Timeform. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. "2016 Sun Chariot Stakes Result". Timeform...
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    his sun-chariot daily across the sky, taking an active part in events subsequent to the Titanomachy. The freedom of Oceanus, along with Helios (Sun), and...
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