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Helios

noun

(Greek mythology) ancient god of the sun; drove his chariot across the sky each day; identified with Roman Sol.

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"Helios" Quotes from Famous Books

... to Theagenes to ask whether any evidence existed to show that the pre-Homeric Greeks were Empedoclean or Heraclitean philosophers. He readily proved to himself that Apollo, Helios, and Hephaestus were allegorical representations, like what such philosophers would feign,—of fire, that Hera was air, Poseidon water, Artemis the moon, and the rest he disposed ...

— Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1 • Andrew Lang

... Greek story, "Das Schloss des Helios" (Schmidt's Griechische Maerchen, Sagen und Volkslieder, p. 106), the heroine is warned by a monk that as she approaches the magic castle voices like her brothers' voices will call her; but if, consequently, she looks behind she will become ...

— Indian Fairy Tales • Anonymous

Words linked to "Helios" : Greek mythology, Greek deity