sun disk
Americannoun
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the disk of the sun.
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a representation of this, especially in religious symbolism.
Etymology
Origin of sun disk
First recorded in 1875–80
Example Sentences
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The 18th-dynasty pharaoh rejected Amun, Osiris and Egypt’s traditional gods in favor of a single disembodied creator-essence, Aten, or the sun disk.
From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2022
He smashed the temples and statues of a popular god named Amun and began to worship a god named Aten, represented by a sun disk.
From National Geographic • Dec. 18, 2015
Closing the temples of the powerful priesthood of Amon, this royal Egyptian heretic established the state cult of a godhead embodied in the sun disk, or Aton.
From Time Magazine Archive
They probably borrowed the halo from the traditional Iranian sun disk that symbolized the heavenly light of Ahura Mazdah.
From Time Magazine Archive
The pillars supporting the roof were gold, and at the peak of each pillar the ram's head, above which was the sun disk, and a single cobra seeming to view with disdain those before him.
From The Tarn of Eternity by Tymon, Frank
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