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In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Helios (/ ˈ h iː l i ə s,-ɒ s /; Ancient Greek: Ἥλιος pronounced [hɛ̌ːlios], lit. 'Sun'; Homeric Greek: Ἠέλιος) is the god who personifies the Sun. His name is also Latinized as Helius, and he is often given the epithets Hyperion ("the one above") and Phaethon ("the shining").
Surya, the Sun god, rides across the sky in a horse-drawn chariot à la Helios and Sol. Aruna, charioteer of Surya, god of the morning Sun. Aryaman, god of the midday Sun. Savitr, god of the twilight Sun, also known as sunrise and sunset. Mitra, often associated with the Sun. Mihir, meaning Sun. Tapati, Sun goddess.
The Vergina Sun on the modern Greek 100 drachmas coin Vergina Sun on a building, Thessaloniki. It was used in official contexts on the reverse of the Greek 100 drachmas coin of 1990–2001, [12] [13] The symbol is placed on the bottom left corner of the Greek driving license, [14] [15] and on Greek passports, it forms the watermark image across ...
In Germanic mythology, the solar deity is Sol; in Vedic, Surya; and in Greek, Helios (occasionally referred to as Titan) and (sometimes) as Apollo. In Proto-Indo-European mythology the sun appears to be a multilayered figure manifested as a deity but also perceived as the eye of the sky father Dyeus. [5]
In Greek mythology, the Heliades (Ancient Greek: Ἡλιάδες means 'daughters of the sun') also called Phaethontides [1] (meaning "daughters of Phaethon") were the daughters of Helios and Clymene, an Oceanid nymph. Heliades by Rupert Bunny, 1920s
Philologist Max Müller's interpretation of solar mythology as it related to Selene and Endymion concluded that the myth was a narrativized version of linguistic terminology. Because the Greek endyein meant "to dive," the name Endymion ("Diver") at first simply described the process of the setting sun "diving" into the sea. In this case, the ...
In Greek mythology, Hyperion (/ h aɪ ˈ p ɪər i ə n /; Ancient Greek: Ὑπερίων, 'he who goes before') [1] was one of the twelve Titan children of Gaia (Earth) and Uranus (Sky). [2] With his sister, the Titaness Theia , Hyperion fathered Helios (Sun), Selene (Moon) and Eos (Dawn).
Phaethon (/ ˈ f eɪ. ə θ ən /; Ancient Greek: Φαέθων, romanized: Phaéthōn, lit. 'shiner', pronounced [pʰa.é.tʰɔːn]), also spelled Phaëthon, is the son of the Oceanid Clymene and the sun god Helios in Greek mythology.