Helios is the Greek sun god who drives his chariot across the sky.
On The sun Sol I set Helios beside the Norse Sol as personifications of the Sun, and note that in Greek mythology Helios, later Apollo, drives his chariot across the sky.
On Aea, Mythical Land of Early Hellenic Lore King Aeëtes, who ruled the land of the Golden Fleece, is a son of Helios, and on Islands mentioned in the Bible I note that Rhodes is often associated with him.
Ignatius Donnelly, on The antiquity of some of our great inventions, reads the Greek story that Hercules borrowed the cup of Helios, in which the god sailed every night, when he set out for the island of Erythea in the Atlantic:
On The Indentity of the Civilizations of the Old World and the New Donnelly recalls that the Egyptian priest of Sais told Solon that the myth of Phaëthon, the son of Helios who tried to drive the chariot of the sun and burned the earth, referred to a declination of bodies moving in the heavens that caused a great conflagration, which only those living near rivers and seas escaped.
On The semi-mythical aspect of Manetho's king list Ra, equated with Helios, is said to have ruled for 1,000 years.
In Plato's Laws by Plato the Athenian stranger proposes that every year after the summer solstice the whole city meet in the common precincts of Helios and Apollo to choose the examiners of the state, who are all to be priests of Apollo and Helios.
For every page I tagged with Helios, see the Helios tag archive.
In Greek myth, Aea (Αἶα) is the land of King Aeëtes, a son of the sun god Helios.
257), that he borrowed "the cup" of Helios, in (with) which "he was accustomed to sail every night." Here we seem to have a reference to the magnetic cup used in night sailing; and this is another proof that the use of the magnetic needle in sea-voyages was associated with the Atlantean gods.
The Egyptian priest of Sais told Solon that the myth of Phaëthon, the son of Helios, having attempted to drive the chariot of the sun, and thereby burning up the earth, referred to "a declination of the bodies moving round the earth and in the heavens" (comets), which caused a "great conflagration upon the earth," from which those only escaped who lived near rivers and seas.
Connection: Rhodes is a significant location in Greek mythology, often associated with Helios, the sun god.
Hyperion: The Titan god of light, father of the sun god Helios, the moon goddess Selene, and the dawn goddess Eos.
Helios: God of the sun.
Ra (Helios): The sun god, Ra, was believed to have ruled for 1,000 years.
Sol or Sunna (Norse) and Helios (Greek)