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Ancient Near East The Egyptians identified the Sun with Ra, one of the major deities in their religion, and the visible disk of the Sun (known as Aten) was either seen as the body or the eye of Ra. The pharaoh Akhenaten established a monotheistic religion during his reign, with Aten as its central figure. Sun worship was apparently practiced in Pre-Islamic Arabia, abolished only under Muhammad. Classical Antiquity The religious significance of the Sun has its roots in the very earliest of recorded European history. Both the ancient Greeks and ancient Romans worshipped one or more solar deities. Many Greek myths personify the Sun as a God named Helios, who wore a shining crown and rode a chariot across the sky, causing day. Ove...