Editing Solar deity (section)

=== Hinduism ===
[[File:Surya Narayana.jpg|upright|thumb|The Hindu solar deity Surya being driven across the sky in his chariot]]

==== Worship of Surya ====
{{further|Saura (Hinduism)}}

The sun is prayed to by [[Dravidian peoples|South Indians]] during the harvest festival.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Jain Chanchreek|author2=K.L. Chanchreek|author3=M.K. Jain|title=Encyclopaedia of Great Festivals |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=TicTAQAAIAAJ |year=2007 |publisher=Shree Publishers |isbn=978-81-8329-191-0|pages=36–38}}</ref>

In [[Tamil Nadu]], the [[Tamil people]] worship the sun god during the [[Tamil culture|Tamil]] month of [[Tamil calendar|Thai]], after a year of [[crop]] farming. The month is known as the harvesting month and people pay respects to the sun on the first day of the Thai month known as [[Thai pongal]], or Pongal, which is a four-day celebration.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pongal-festival.com/|title=502 Bad Gateway nginx openresty 208.80.154.49|website=www.pongal-festival.com|access-date=18 July 2019|archive-date=30 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210830101945/https://pongal-festival.com/|url-status=dead}}</ref> It is one of the few indigenous worships by the [[Tamil people]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ntyo.org/kolangal/thaipongal.htm |title=Tamizhs festival |publisher=ntyo.org |access-date=3 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011227113057/http://www.ntyo.org/kolangal/thaipongal.htm |archive-date=27 December 2001 |url-status=usurped }}</ref>

In other parts of India, the festival is celebrated as [[Makar Sankranti]] and is mostly worshiped by [[Hindu diaspora]].<ref>{{Cite news|agency=PTI|date=2022-01-14|title=Different festivals being celebrated today signify India's vibrant cultural diversity: PM Modi|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/different-festivals-being-celebrated-today-signify-indias-vibrant-cultural-diversity-pm-modi/article38271076.ece|access-date=2022-01-21|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>