Sun chariot
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A sun chariot is a mythological representation of the sun riding in a chariot. The concept is younger than that of the solar barge, and typically Indo-European, corresponding with the Indo-European expansion after the invention of the chariot in the 2nd millennium BC.
- Trundholm sun chariot
- Germanic Sol rides in a chariot, drawn by Arvak and Alsvid
- Greek Helios rides in a chariot, see also Phaëton
- The Biblical Elijah ascends to Heaven in a Chariot of Fire
- Vedic Surya rides in a chariot, drawn by seven horses
The sun itself was also compared to a wheel, possibly in Proto-Indo-European, Greek hēliou kuklos, Sanskrit suryasya cakram, Anglo-Saxon sunnan hweogul (PIE *swelyosyo kukwelos)
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