[[religion]] [[beings]] [[divine-family]] [[daytime]] # PIE *seh₂u̯el Klien said that the PIE word for Sun is archaic. What other words are archaic? What is the oldest layer of PIE language? ## § [[witzel2005]] [[morris-c1889]] [[buck-1.5.2-sun]] [[Buck]]: 1.5.2 "Sun" [[rolinson2019-12-25]] [[lincoln1982-1991-mithra]] [[sick1996]] ## Rituals [[greeting-the-sun]] [[prayer-sun]] ## Branches Lat. [[sol]] ## Chinese Connection Several Chinese goddesses are similar to the PIE sun goddes and the dawn goddes, implying influence from them through trade routes in Tocharian territories and therefore their worship there ==[[snow-j2002]]== ## Tocharian Tocharian: A *koṃ*, B *kauṃ* 'sun, day' (j-mallory2015). A loanword connected to the Turkic sun goddess [*Gun Ana*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun-Ana). ### Sun Dogs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-dog Alternatively, Jonas Persson suggested that out of Norse mythology and archaic names — Danish: solhunde (sun dog), Norwegian: solhund (sun dog), Swedish: solvarg (sun wolf) — in the Scandinavian languages, constellations of two wolves hunting the Sun and the Moon, one after and one before, may be a possible origin for the term. ## Afro-Asiatic [[wikander2014]] ## Cycle   ## Web Resources [web](https://www.indo-european-connection.com/religion/gods/sun-god) https://www.indo-european-connection.com/words/sun ## Non-IE For Sun Gods in General: [Wikipedia: Solar deity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar-deity) ### Chinese Several Chinese goddesses are similar to the PIE [sun-solar goddess](sun) and the [dawn goddess](dawn.md), implying influence from them through trade routes in Tocharian territories and therefore their worship there (j-snow2002).