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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"Sól is the shield of the clouds
and shining ray
and destroyer of ice."
Icelandic rune poem🏛️ Sunna aka Sól in her Chariot, pyrography on pine by Debra Arnold, 2009
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"Helios, the myth tells us, becoming enamoured of [Poseidon's daughter] Rhodos, named the island Rhodes after her and caused the water which had overflowed it to disappear."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 5.56.3🏛️ #Helios head on a tetradrachm from #Rhodos
@antiquidons @mythology #GreekRomanArt #mythology #numismatics
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
For #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth I'm introducing Native American deities 🌎
According to #AztecMythology, Earth and its beings had been created five times and were ruled by five different suns. Tonatiuh's appearance as the fifth and final sun took place in the city of Teotihuacan. #Tonatiuh rose weakly and did not move until the wind god #Ehecatl blew Tonatiuh into motion.
🏛️ 1350–1521 CE, Tenochtitlan