Winter Solstice - Etruscan Solar Plasma Diety - Modern Heliophysics through the lens of mythology

Usil Etruscan depictions of the solar deity Usil (also spelled, or related to, Śuri or Silar in some contexts) commonly feature a youthful, male figure with a radiate crown (halo of rays) and wings. He is often shown rising from the sea at dawn. 

Key Iconographic Elements

• Radiate Crown: The head of Usil is typically surrounded by a nimbus or halo of rays, symbolizing solar energy.

• Crown symbolizing plasma streams and the corona as well as the crown of north and south pole of Magnetosphere made radiant by the Sun / Aurora

• Wings: Usil is frequently depicted with large, spreading wings, moving across the sky in the solar chariot.

• Wings are the metaphor for Solar wind , and Magnetosphere protection which the solar wind shapes

• Rising from the Sea: In relief sculptures, the lower part of his body often merges into a broad plate with undulating lines, representing the waves from which he emerges at daybreak and sinks at dusk.

• The sea also a metaphor for cosmic plasma waters

• Youthful Male Form: Most depictions show Usil as a beardless, muscular young man, nude from the groin up. However, some rare or perhaps earlier representations might be feminine.

• Attributes: He is sometimes shown holding a torch or a solar disk, and on some mirrors, a bow associated with the god Apulu (Apollo).

• This represents the CME of the Sun apulu coming right from Sanskrit apas - meaning celestial ( plasma waters)

• Association with Thesan: Usil is notably associated with the dawn goddess Thesan in Etruscan art, an association rarely seen in Greek mythology between Helios and Eos. This represents lo spirito di Alba - the spirit of the dawn and Aurora

Notable Artifacts

• Bronze Appliqués: Several bronze appliqués, such as the one in the Getty Museum collection, were likely fittings on funeral carts or chariots. These show the god in dynamic poses related to the sun's daily journey.

• Engraved Mirrors: Usil also appears on engraved bronze mirrors, sometimes depicted with a fireball in each outstretched hand as he rises from the sea. 

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