The name of the mythological story about the sun

China's Kuafu chased the sun, Yi shot nine days, needless to say

Other countries also have the custom of sun worship, passed down many legends of the sun god, briefly introduced a few

Apollo and Daphne (Greece): Once, Apollo saw the little goddess of love, Cupid, playing with a bow and arrow. He unceremoniously warned Cupid, "Hey! Bows and arrows are dangerous things, children should not play with them." It turns out that the little god of love Cupid has two very special arrows: whoever is shot by his sharp arrow made of gold will immediately ignite the passion of love in his heart; if he is shot by the other blunt arrow made of lead, he will be very sick of love. Cupid was disconcerted by Apollo's remark. He took advantage of Apollo's inattention and shot the arrow of love at Apollo with a whoosh, and the flame of love was immediately kindled in Apollo's heart. At this time, a beautiful girl named Daphne came. The mischievous Cupid shot the blunt arrow made of lead at Daphne, and Daphne, who was shot, immediately became very sick of love. By this time Apollo, who had been hit by the arrow of love, had fallen y in love with Daphne, so he immediately expressed his adoration for her. But Daphne was very upset and said, "Go away! I hate love! Stay away from me!" And with these words she darted away like a gazelle into the valley. But Apollo was not discouraged in his pursuit of Daphne; he took his harp and played a beautiful tune. Whoever heard the sound of Apollo's harp could not help but come to him and listen to his playing. Daphne, who was hiding in the mountains, also heard the beautiful sound of the harp and was unconsciously mesmerized. "Where did such a beautiful sound come from? I want to see who is playing it." Saying this, Daphne, who was already mesmerized by the sound of the lyre, walked towards Apollo. Apollo, who was hiding behind a boulder playing his harp, immediately jumped out and walked up to embrace Daphne. Daphne saw Apollo and ran away. Apollo chased hard after her and shouted, "I am not your enemy, nor a ferocious beast, nor an unreasonable mangy man, why do you avoid me?" Despite Apollo's incessant shouting at Daphne from behind, Daphne continued to dart forward as if she hadn't heard him. But as fast as Daphne ran, she couldn't outrun Apollo. After running for a while, Daphne was exhausted and couldn't catch her breath. Finally, she collapsed on the ground, and seeing Apollo about to catch up, Daphne was so anxious that she screamed, "Help! Help!" At this time, the river god heard Daphne's plea for help, and immediately used his divine power to turn her into a laurel tree. Daphne's hair turned into leaves, her wrists into branches, her legs into trunks, and her feet and toes into roots, which dug deep into the soil. Apollo saw this and was so remorseful that he sadly hugged the laurel tree and wept, but the tree kept on shaking. Although Daphne had turned into a laurel tree, Apollo still loved her. Apollo gazed at the laurel tree and said with infatuation, "Though you did not become my wife, I will love you forever. I will make my laurel crown of your branches, my harp of your wood, and adorn my bow with your flowers. At the same time I will grant you eternal youth and no aging." Hearing this, Daphne, who had become a laurel tree, was y moved and nodded her head in gratitude. Perhaps blessed by Apollo, the laurel tree was evergreen all year round and was a much loved plant.

The story of Ra (Egypt): Ra is the highest god of Egypt - the sun god. He was originally an ordinary human god, and later Egyptian religious monks for the god and the sun worship equivalent to the god of Ra, the god of the gods as the Lord of the sun god and the national god, but also regarded him as the creator god. There are many legends about Ra. As the creator god, he is believed to be the son of Nu, the god of the sea at the beginning of the world.

The myth says that the world began as a sea of water with a glowing egg on the water from which Ra was born. As he grew up, he grew stronger and stronger and became the Lord of Creation and the father of the gods. He gave birth to Shu, the god of wind, and Tephnut, the god of rain, who became the stars in the sky called Gemini.

Then Ra gave birth to Seb, the god of the earth, and Nut, the god of the heavens, who united to give birth to Osiris, the king of the underworld, and Isis, the queen of the underworld, as well as to Set, the god of evil, and Nephthys, his spouse. After this the god Ra began to speak, and he commanded the heavens and the earth to rise out of a piece of waste water, and Ra first made his light to shine upon the earth, and then had the god of the winds lift up Nut, the god of the heavens, who formed a vault, and Seb, the god of the earth, who lay down flat, and thus the heavens and the earth were formed. By Ra's command he asked the earth to change into something, and anything appeared before him if he spoke his wish, and so all the earth's creatures and substances were formed, and finally man was born from his eyes.

After this was accomplished, Ra began to go back and forth among the people, and he was not only the ruler of the gods, he became the first emperor of the earth. Ra had many names that were unknown to the gods and the people. He also had a secret name because of which he was given the power of the Lord of the Gods. Isis, the goddess who lived on earth as a woman, was tired of her human life and wanted to go back to heaven again. She knew magic, so she longed to be given the power to rule heaven and earth like the god Ra, and so she longed to know the secret name of her heavenly father.

So she began to follow the god Ra, and kept a watchful eye on his movements to find opportunities to fulfill her purpose. When Ra was old and often drooled when he spoke, Isis realized that an opportunity had presented itself. Once, she followed Ra to go out, and when he spit on the ground, she picked up the spit with the dirt. When she returned, she dried the dirt and made it into a spear, and then used her magic to turn the spear into a poisonous snake. She put the snake in the place where Ra had passed by on his rounds from time to time, and when Ra walked by, the snake pounced on him and bit him. The venom of the serpent quickly seeped into Ra's body, and Ra's God was in so much pain that from time to time he let out a great shriek, which could be heard even in the farthest reaches of heaven.

The gods who accompanied Ra did not know what was going on, and anxiously asked him about it. Ra told them that he had been attacked by a viper, and that he hoped someone would help him. The gods were unable to do anything to help him, even though they were trying to help him. Then the goddess Isis, who was among the gods, came forward and pretended to comfort Ra by asking about the divine father. She then asked Ra to reveal his secret name, and only then would she help him relieve his pain. The god Ra was so saddened by Isis' words that he had to reveal some of his names, Khepera at the break of dawn, Ra at daytime, and Tam at evening.

The goddess remained unmoved by what Ra said, and she wanted the god Ra to give his secret name. At that moment, the venom in Ra's body was having a sharp and harmful effect, like a fire burning fiercely in his heart, and Ra felt that his life was in danger, and he had to let his secret name (i.e., "Ran") enter into the body of Isis. When Ra had finished, he disappeared before the gods. Isis waited, and when Ra's secret name was about to leave his heart, Isis asked her son Horus to recite an incantation to force Ra to give up his two eyes, and Ra had to give Horus his own eyes, which were the sun and the moon. Finally the secret name of Ra God got into the heart of Isis, so the goddess made the venom disappear from Ra God's body, and Ra God regained his health again.

Goddess Aurora (Greece): The most famous story about Eos is the story of her and her husband. Legend has it that Eos fell in love with the Trojan prince Tinotus, knowing she couldn't love him but unable to part with her love, so she prayed to her heavenly father, Zeus, and asked him to grant her husband magic so that he would never die so that they could be together for a long time. Zeus granted the ungrateful request, but he repeatedly warned her that the wish was granted and could not be withdrawn. She agreed. However, she forgot to ask Zeus that her husband not grow old at the same time, so her husband grew older and older, but would not die. Realizing that she was wrong, she ran to Zeus again, hoping that Zeus would take back her wish. Zeus, of course, could not do it; Aurora had promised that the spell could never be reversed!

Eurus and Tinotus' son was named Mennon, king of Ethiopia, who was killed by Achilles in the Trojan War. She commanded her children, several wind gods, to roll toward the earth and retrieve her son's body from the hands of the enemy, and rolled the body back up into the sky, where the blood dripped onto the ground. Later, this blood turned into a red river that meandered through the foothills of Mount Ida, its waters carrying a strong odor of decay. At this time the wind god carried the bodies very close to the ground. The Ethiopians could not bear to see their king go, so they chased after the body with weeping and sorrow, and did not stop until they could no longer see it. The wind god brought Mennon's body to the river Asopus. The beautiful daughters of the river god built a tomb for him in the sacred grove. Menon's mother, Eos, also descended from the sky, and many nymphs came down with her. With tears they mourned the king of Ethiopia. The Trojans, who had retreated to the city, did not know where Menon's body had been blown by the wind, but they also mourned the hero Menon with great sorrow.

According to myth, Menon's comrades were transformed into birds of prey who flew to the cemetery every year to mourn their king. Menon's mother implored Zeus to grant him immortality. Zeus agreed. Later, near Thebes rose a huge stone pillar with a seated statue of a king. The pillar made a marvelous sound before sunrise. This was said to be Mennon cheering and blessing the rising of his mother, the goddess Dawn. When the mother saw her son alive, she could not hold back the tears that came to her eyes and dripped down onto the flowers and trees, forming crystalline morning dew.

Tonadziu (Aztec):

When the gods created the Fifth Sun at Teotihuacan, Nanahuatxin and Tecucistecatl voluntarily jumped into the bonfire and competed to become the Sun of the Fifth Epoch, and later on, Tecucistecatl couldn't withstand the blaze, and on the contrary, Nanahuatxin persisted to the end, and in the end, Nanahuatxin became the Sun, and Tecucistecatl became the Moon. Nanahuatxin was transformed from a festering deity into the mighty sun god, Tonadiu; however, when Tonadiu became the sun, he demanded his life from the gods, who then sacrificed their hearts. The Aztecs therefore believed that a living sacrifice was necessary to ensure that the sun would continue to function.

According to the Aztec creation myth, Tonatiuh demanded that the Aztecs offer him a living sacrifice or he would refuse to move in the sky. It is said that 20,000 people were sacrificed each year because of Tonatiuh and other gods, although it is thought that this number was inflated by the Aztecs to frighten their enemies or to be maligned by the Spaniards. The Aztecs were y attracted to the sun and created a solar calendar that was second only to the Mayan solar calendar in accuracy. Aztec ruins that remain today also have a strong connection to the sun.

Living sacrifices were common among the Aztecs, who offered the hearts and blood of living people to Tonadiu, who in turn gave the warriors strength and courage through his heat and the blood that humans gave him. In Aztec mythology, every night Tonadziu would fight the darkness, he would be swallowed by the earth demon Tlaltecutri, and they took in warriors slain in battle and escorted them to heaven.

The Sun God Kills Her Sister (Aztec): in Aztec legend, the Moon Goddess had her head cut off twice and was a figure of defector and failure. After giving birth to the moon goddess and four hundred stars, their mother, Cauterichu, vowed chastity. But one day, while cleaning her temple on top of a sacred mountain, Kauterichu became unexpectedly pregnant from a ball made of feathers. Her children were furious when they heard about their mother's pregnancy, believing that she had broken her vow of chastity. Kauyok Megaguy gathered his siblings together and agreed to kill his mother, Kauterichu, as punishment for her breaking the vow. Unexpectedly, one of the brothers attending the meeting divulged their plan to the unborn Whizzeroboderi, and when the crowd approached the mother in order to carry out the murderous plan, the infant sun god, fully armed, jumped out of her womb at once, and cut down the moon goddess Kauyok Mega-Kyu, who had been plotting to kill her, and, in the fullness of his wrath, the sun god also hacked the moon goddess to pieces, and all the bits and pieces, except the head, were were thrown down the mountain - which is how the Aztecs explained why the rising sun annihilated the moon and stars in a brilliant blaze of light every day.