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HELIOS
BY: Destiny Jones
HELIOS'S BIRTH ORIGIN
• Helios was born from the union of the celestial Titan Hyperion and Theia, the
Titaness of Sight (or Euryphaessa). Helios' sisters were Selene, the goddess of
the moon, and Eos, the radiant, rosy-fingered goddess of the dawn. Helios
was first married to his sister, Selene, but overall he had many wives, among
them the Oceanid Perse; from their union, Helios became the father of king
Aetes, Circe and Pasiphae, the wife of Minos.
HELIOS’S POWERS
• Helios, in Greek mythology, the ancient sun god, son of the Titans Hyperion
and Theia, and brother of Selene, goddess of the moon, and Eos, goddess of
the dawn. Helios was believed to ride his golden chariot across the heavens
daily, giving light to gods and mortals. At evening he sank into the western
ocean, from which he was carried in a golden cup back to his palace in the
east. Helios alone could control the fierce horses that drew his fiery chariot.
HELIOS’S DEFINING STORY
• HELIOS (Helius) was the Titan god of the sun, a guardian of oaths, and the
god of sight. He dwelt in a golden palace in the River Okeanos (Oceanus) at
the far ends of the earth from which he emerged each dawn, crowned with the
aureole of the sun, driving a chariot drawn by four winged steeds. When he
reached the the land of the Hesperides in the far West he descended into a
golden cup which bore him through the northern streams of Okeanos back to
his rising place in the East. Once his son Phaethon tried to drive the chariot of the
sun, but he lost control and set the earth ablaze. Zeus struck the boy down with a
thunderbolt!
REFERENCES
• http://www.theoi.com/Titan/Helios.html
• http://www.greek-gods.info/ancient-greek-gods/helios/