[Cf. MHG. sunnengot, G. sonnengott.] The sun regarded or personified as a god; a god identified or specially associated with the sun.
1592. Soliman & Pers., I. iii. 86. There happened a sore drought … that the iucie grasse Was seared with the Sunne Gods Element.
1831. Keightley, 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.
1880. Encycl. Brit., XI. 749/2. Hermes is the sun-god as hidden during the night away among the souls of the dead.
So Sun-goddess.
1861. Bp. G. Smith, Ten Weeks in Japan, iv. 46. The great ‘Sun-goddess’ … seems to be the principal object of divine adoration to the multitude.
