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Bust of the sun-god Helios, second century AD; the holes were used for the attachment of a sun ray crown, Ancient Agora Museum, Athens, Greece. Helios is the son of Hyperion and Theia, [24] [25] [26] or Euryphaessa, [27] or Basileia, [28] and the only brother of the goddesses Eos and Selene. If the order of mention of the three siblings is ...
Helios, god and personification of the Sun who drives across the sky in a chariot; Apollo, god of the Sun and light, among others. His most common epithet is Phoebus (“Radiant”) Eos, goddess and personification of the dawn; Hemera, goddess of the day; Electryone, goddess of the sunrise
The Ancient Greeks also associated the Sun with Apollo, the god of enlightenment. Apollo (along with Helios) was sometimes depicted as driving a fiery chariot. [88] The Greek astronomer Thales of Miletus described the scientific properties of the Sun and Moon, making their godship unnecessary. [89]
Apollo Belenus was a healing and sun god. [54] Apollo Cunomaglus ("hound lord"). A title given to Apollo at a shrine at Nettleton Shrub, Wiltshire. May have been a god of healing. Cunomaglus himself may originally have been an independent healing god. [55] Apollo Grannus. Grannus was a healing spring god, later equated with Apollo.
Lampetia, goddess of light, and one of the Heliades or daughters of Helios , god of the Sun, and of the nymph Neera . Theia, Titaness of sight and the shining light of the clear blue sky. She is the consort of Hyperion and mother of Helios, Selene, and Eos. Zeus, as a reflex of *Dyeus, could be considered god of the day-lit sky
God of harvests and personification of destructive time. The leader of the Titans, who overthrew his father Uranus only to be overthrown in turn by his son, Zeus. Not to be confused with Chronos. Hyperion: Ὑπερίων (Hyperíōn) God of light. With Theia, he is the father of Helios (the Sun), Selene (the Moon), and Eos (the Dawn). Iapetus
In the Homeric epics, and in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, besides being called "Helios", Hyperion is sometimes also called simply "Hyperion". [17] In later sources the two sun-gods are distinctly father and son. [18] In literature, the sun is often referred to as "Hyperion's bright son." [19]
Helios, who in Greek mythology is the god of the Sun, is said to have had seven herds of oxen and seven flocks of sheep, each numbering fifty head. [3] In the Odyssey, Homer describes these immortal cattle as handsome (ἄριστος), wide-browed (εὐρυμέτωπος), fat, and straight-horned (ὀρθόκραιρος). [4]