Sun
.Hebrew, Elohim (God); Greek, helios (the sun); Breton, heol; Latin, sol; German, sonne; Anglo-Saxon, sunne. As a deity, called Adoʹnis by the Phœnicians, and Apollo by the Greeks and Romans.
Sun. Harris, in his Hermēs, asserts that all nations ascribe to the sun a masculine and the moon a feminine gender. For confutation see Moon.
City of the Sun. Rhodes was so called because the sun was its tutelar deity. The Colossos of Rhodes was consecrated to the sun. On or Heliopolis, Egypt.
