Apolo and Surya
Similarities:
Aditya/Surya and Appolo are much similar. Apollo's daily tasks is to harness his chariot with four horses and drive the Sun across the sky. While Surya is Sun himself, who is driven in a chariot driven by seven horses representing seven colors of the Rainbow.
Re or Atum was considered the Egyptian Sun God. He travels in a ship across the sky and had to fight monsters before returning every morning.
Dissimilarities:
Appolo is the god of music, playing a golden lyre. The Archer, far shooting with a silver bow. The god of healing who taught man medicine. The god of light. The god of truth, who can not speak a lie. Surya has hair and arms of gold. He presides over Sunday. Surya is notably mentioned as the visible form of God that one can see every day. Note that Helios was the greek sun god. He may be thought of as a personification of the sun.
