The sky father or heavenly father is a recurring theme in mythology all over the world. The sky father can be the complement of the earth mother and appears in some creation myths, many of which are Indo-European or ancient Near Eastern. Other cultures have quite different myths; Egyptian mythology features a sky mother or Heavenly Mother and an earthly dying and reviving god of vegetation.
A sky father is often also a solar deity, a god identified with the sun, while in contrast, Shinto has a sun goddess. A sky father figure also appears in ancient Turkic religion.
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