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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! ☀️
"The sun from the south, the moon's companion,
her right hand cast about the heavenly horses.
The sun knew not where she a dwelling had,
the moon knew not what power he possessed,
the stars knew not where they had a station."
Poetic Edda, Völuspá🏛️ The Trundholm sun chariot from the Nordic Bronze Age (ca 1500-1300 BCE), depicting the Sun being drawn by a chariot, as described in #NorseMythology
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"And Theia was subject in love to Hyperion and bare great Helios (Sun) and clear Selene (Moon) and Eos (Dawn) who shine upon all that are on earth and upon the deathless Gods who live in the wide heaven."
Hesiod, Theogony 371🏛️ #Helios bronze bust
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
7 days after the #Solstice: the light is returning!
"He called to #Helios, reminding the chief of the stars of his love for Klymene, and prayed him to hold back his car & check the stalled horses with the heavenly bit, that he might prolong the sweet light, that he might go slow to his setting & with sparing whip increase the day to shine again."
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
Happy #Solstice to all who celebrate!
It's Helios' shortest work day of the year, he is small and distant:
"At the winter solstice, the sun would seem to be a little child like that which the Egyptians bring forth from a shrine on the appointed day, since the day is then at its shortest and the god is accordingly shown as a tiny infant."
Macrobius, #Saturnalia🏛️ #Helios figurine, Antalya Museum
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️🌈
Apollon and Helios are distinct deities but Apollon is a sun god too.
"He [Magnes of Thessalia] had a son of remarkable beauty, Hymenaios. And when #Apollon saw the boy, he was seized with love for him, and would not leave the house of Magnes."
Hesiod, The Great Eoiae Fragment 16🏛️ #Apollo Belvedere replica
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️🌈
"Having kissed #Apollon, Branchos received a garland and a wand of laurel and began to prophesy."
Varro, Antiquitates rerum divinarum🏛️ #Apollo Bicon by Greta's Soul
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️🌈
"Hyakinthos was loved by Apollon, who accidentally killed him while hurling a discus."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca🎨 Apollon and Hyakinthos by Gretassoul
https://gretasartt.tumblr.com/post/185611027981/can-you-draw-apollo-and-hyacinthus-kissing-with
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️🌈
"Poseidon and Helios might be said to be rivals. [...] And it may be that #Helios was vexed at the boy [#Nerites] travelling about in the sea and wished that he should travel among the constellations instead."
Aelian, On Animals 14.28🏛️ Helios and Nerites as drawn by my amazing illustrator Sinita
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"Stesichorus says that #Helios (the Sun) sailed across Okeanos in a cup and that #Herakles also crosssed over in it when travelling to get Geryon's cattle."
Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S17🏛️ #Red-figure vase painting of Herakles on the sea in the golden cup of Helios
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"The water bride-groom [#Okeanos] begat #Klymene, fairest of the Naiads, whom #Tethys nursed on her wet breast, her youngest, a maiden with lovely arms. For her beauty Helios pined, who travels the sevenzone circuit [the zodiac] garland-wise. Helios dispenser of fire was afflicted with another fire!"
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 38.108🏛️ #Helios-Sol, Roman bronze lamp, 400 CE
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"When Helios made him [Herakles] hot as he proceeded, he aimed his bow at the god and stretched it. Helios was so surprised at his daring that he gave him a golden goblet, in which he crossed Okeanos."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.107🏛️ #Helios and #Herakles, Attic black-figure skyphos, ca 500 BCE:
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"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! ☀️
"He [Sol-Helios the Sun] who moves the tepid day with gleaming chariot, is crowned with palisade of pointed rays."
#Ovid, Heroides 4. 159 -
It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"We call him the gods of herds since that time
When by the Amphryssus he tended the yoked pair of horses
And was fired with love for young #Admetos."
Kallimachos, Hymn to #Apollon🎨 [email protected]
https://mitsybubbles.tumblr.com/post/661818749550264320/look-admetus-has-two-handsI wrote a story about Apollon's and Admetos' first time 😊
Free to read here:
https://eroticmythology.com/fiction-locks-of-phoibos-admetos-apollon/@antiquidons @mythology
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"Having kissed #Apollon, Branchos received a garland and a wand of laurel and began to prophesy."
Varro, Antiquitates rerum divinarum🎨 Apollo with a Lover by Giulio Romano, 1492-1546 CE
https://collection.nationalmuseum.se:443/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=61012&viewType=detailView@antiquidons @mythology
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"Hyakinthos was loved by #Apollon, who accidentally killed him while hurling a discus."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca🎨 #Apollo and Hyacinthus by Hyacyntart - get a print here!
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
#Apollon, true polyamorous bicon:
Apollon was said to have loved all nine Muses, and not being able to marry all nine, chose to remain unwed. He also had numerous male lovers in myth.🏛️ #Apollon with nymphs, 1st century CE, National Archeological Museum, #Naples
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"The water bride-groom [#Okeanos] begat #Klymene, fairest of the Naiads, whom #Tethys nursed on her wet breast, her youngest, a maiden with lovely arms. For her beauty Helios pined, who travels the sevenzone circuit [the zodiac] garland-wise. Helios dispenser of fire was afflicted with another fire!"
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 38.108🏛️ #Helios-Sol, Roman bronze lamp, 400 CE
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"When #Sol [Helios] reported this [#Aphrodite's affair with #Ares] to #Vulcanus [#Hephaistos], he saw them lying there naked, and summoned all the gods who saw [...] To Sol's progeny, however, #Venus [Aphrodite], because of his disclosure, was always hostile."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 148🏛️ #Helios-Sol relief with snake, Domitian altar, 87 CE
#DayOfHelios #GreekRomanArt #mythology @antiquidons @mythology
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"The Aithiopian land, where seven-channelled Neilos (the Nile) rolles its refreshing tide, fed by abundant, wind-born rain, and therein the fire-eyed sun [#Helios] beaming forth upon the earth, melts the snow amid the rocks."
#Aeschylus, Fragment 161🏛️ Apollon-Sol, Roman floor mosaic, El-Jem, #Tunisia
#DayOfHelios #GreekRomanArt #mythology @antiquidons @mythology
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀
This bronze bust of #Helios radiates with a seven-sunray crown and long hair, wearing a chic chlamys cloak. Perhaps it is a portrait of Alexander of #Macedon.
🏛 Discovered in Tripoli, Libya and dated to the 1st century CE. Today in the Department of Near Eastern Antiquities, Musée du Louvre, Paris
#DayOfHelios #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Sol #AlexanderTheGreat
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀
For #BlackHistoryMonth, I'm introducing African deities in my daily god toots. #Anyanwu ("eye of the sun") is the sun deity or spirit of good fortune, knowledge, and wisdom in the traditional #Igbo religion. Anyanwu is a tutelary spirit that was created by the Supreme god and exists as a masculine & feminine deity. Anyanwu bestows the gift of sight: when the sun is out, things are brought to light.
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀
For #BlackHistoryMonth, I'm introducing African deities in my daily god toots. #Olorun is the #Sun itself, one of the manifestations of the Supreme God #Olodumare in #Yoruba religion. This god exists in spiritual form only and therefore has no gender, no cult, no temples, nor should they be worshipped directly. They should be contacted through the #Orishas instead, a few of whom we have met this week. They created the universe & all living things.
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It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
One of the oldest antiquities found at Aï Khanum, this spectacular disk depicts #Kybele and winged #Nike on a chariot drawn by two lions through a mountainous landscape with a bust of the sun god Helios in the sky.
🏛 Ceremonial Plaque depicting Kybele, Nike, and Helios. Early 3rd century BCE. Today in the National Museum of #Afghanistan, Kabul.
#DayOfHelios #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Sol #Helios
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It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"Phaethon [#Helios] laughed, because #Ares in the seafight [of #Dionysos against the Indians] had fled again before the fire of #Hephaistos, as once before he fled from his chains."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 39.403🎨 Helios (possibly Alexander of Macedon) bronze bust, 1st century CE.
#DayOfHelios #GreekRomanArt #mythology @antiquidons @mythology
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It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"Helios, the myth tells us [...] caused the water which had overflowed it [the island of Rhodes] to disappear. But the true explanation is that [...] the island was still like mud and soft, Helios dried up the larger part of its wetness and filled the land with living creatures."
🎨 Red-figure vase painting of #Helios in a chariot drawn by two #Erotes.
#DayOfHelios #GreekRomanArt #ancientRome #mythology @antiquidons @mythology
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It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"And there the children of dark #Nyx (Night) have their dwellings, #Hypnos (Sleep) and #Thanatos (Death), awful gods. Glowing #Helios (the #Sun) never looks upon them with his beams, neither as he goes up into heaven, nor as he comes down from heaven."
Hesiod, Theogony 758🎨 Detail of Sol Invictus on a Roman marble relief.
#DayOfHelios #GreekRomanArt #ancientRome #mythology @antiquidons @mythology
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It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
#Apollo-Sol, the Sun god, with a seven-rayed gloriola in a #Roman floor #mosaic from El Jem, #Tunesia.
Dated 375 CE.#DayOfHelios #Sun #Sol #GreekRomanArt #ancientRome #MosaicMonday @antiquidons @archaeodons @histodons
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It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday!
Sol Invictus (#Helios) with a halo of sunlight and #Mithras (to his right) feast together.
Emperor Aurelian built a new temple for Sol, which was dedicated #OTD, 25 December 274 CE. The cult, like Mithraism, had been introduced from the EastRead more about mid-winter festivals (ancient & modern) in my article:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/32058351#DayOfHelios #Sun #SolInvitus #AncMed #ReligioRomana #ancientRome #antiquidon @antiquidons
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It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday!
The Colossus of Rhodes, the famous sculpture of #Helios that stood on the island of #Rhodes, one of his cult centres.
Artwork for the boardgame 7 Wonders by Miguel Coimbra:https://www.deviantart.com/miguelcoimbra/art/7-wonders-colossus-of-Rhodes-187774152