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en-wikipedia-org-9721		Solar deity - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	8934	916	73	Proto-Indo-European religion has a solar chariot, the Sun as traversing the sky in a chariot.[4] In Germanic mythology this is Sol, in Vedic Surya, and in Greek Helios (occasionally referred to as Titan) and (sometimes) as Apollo. The nimbus of the figure under Saint Peter's Basilica is described by some as rayed,[79] as in traditional pre-Christian representations, but another has said: "Only the cross-shaped nimbus makes the Christian significance apparent" (emphasis added).[80] Yet another has interpreted the figure as a representation of the sun with no explicit religious reference whatever, pagan or Christian.[81] Among scholars who view the celebration of the birth of Jesus on 25 December as motivated by choice of the winter solstice, rather than that he was conceived and died on 25 March, some reject the idea that this choice constituted a deliberate Christianization of a festival of the Birthday of the Unconquered Sun. For example, Michael Alan Anderson writes: The many early Egyptian goddesses who are related as sun deities and the later gods Ra and Horus depicted as riding in a solar barge.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9721.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9721.txt