The sun god took three main forms: Khepri, the scarab beetle, who was the rising sun; Ra, the sun's disc, who was the midday sun; and Atum, an old man leaning on a stick, who was the setting sun. Each evening, as the sun reached the west, the sky goddess...

In ancient Egyption mythology, before time began the creator, the lord without limit, rested in the form of a serpent with its tail in its mouth in the primal ocean Nun...

At the center of the Viking cosmos was Yggdrasil, the world Tree, a giant ash that held up the sky and sustained the world...