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117-634: Pasiphaë was the daughter of god of the Sun , Helios , and the Oceanid nymph Perse . She was thus the sister of Aeëtes , Circe and Perses of Colchis . In some accounts, Pasiphaë's mother was identified as the island-nymph Crete herself. Like her doublet Europa, the consort of Zeus , her origins were in the East, in her case at the earliest-known Kartvelian-speaking polity of Colchis ( Egrisi ( Georgian : ეგრისი ), now in western Georgia ). Pasiphaë

234-585: A god . It’s not plausible! What could I have seen in a bull to assault my heart with this shameful passion? Did he look too handsome in his robe? Did a sea of fire smoulder in his eyes? Was it the red tint of his hair, his dark beard? Mythological scholars and authors Ruck and Staples remarked that "the Bull was the old pre-Olympian Poseidon". Pseudo-Apollodorus mentions a slightly differing reason for why Poseidon cursed Pasiphaë; citing that Minos wanted to be king, and he called upon Poseidon to send him

351-505: A bull in order to prove to the kingdom that he had received sovereignty from the gods. Upon calling on Poseidon, Minos failed to sacrifice the bull, as Poseidon wished, causing the god to grow angry with him. According to sixth century BC author Bacchylides , the curse was instead sent by Aphrodite and Hyginus says this was because Pasiphaë had neglected Aphrodite's worship for years. In yet another version, Aphrodite cursed Pasiphaë (as well as several of her sisters) with unnatural desires as

468-447: A bull." Pasiphaë is often included on lists among women ruled by lust ; other women include Phaedra , Byblis , Myrrha , Scylla and Semiramis . Scholars see her as a personified sin of bestiality. Ars amatoria shows Pasiphaë's jealousy of the cows, primping in front of a mirror while she laments that she is not a cow and killing of her rivals. In mainland Greece, Pasiphaë was worshipped as an oracular goddess at Thalamae , one of

585-579: A domain over healing and thermal springs. Probably the de facto solar deity of the Celts. Etruscan mythology [ edit ] Usil , Etruscan equivalent of Helios Finnish mythology [ edit ] Päivätär , goddess of the Sun Germanic mythology [ edit ] Sól/Sunna/Sunne , the common Sun goddess among the Germanic peoples , who according to Nordic mythology

702-529: A god driving his chariot from east to west each day, rising from the Oceanus River and setting in the west under the earth. It is unclear as to whether this journey means that he travels through Tartarus . Athenaeus in his Deipnosophistae relates that, at the hour of sunset, Helios climbs into a great cup of solid gold in which he passes from the Hesperides in the farthest west to the land of

819-516: A goddess in the Kazakh and Kyrgyz traditions Koyash , god of the Sun Persian mythology [ edit ] Mithra , often associated with the Sun. Hvare-khshaeta , the Sun yazata Zunism [ edit ] The Zunbil dynasty and the subjects of Zabulistan worshiped the Sun, which they called Zun. They believed that the Sun was the god of justice, the force of good in

936-466: A golden boat. In them evident is the Indo-European grouping of a sun god and his sister, as well as an association with horses. Helen of Troy's name is thought to share the same etymology as Helios, and she may express an early alternate personification of the sun among Hellenic peoples. Helen might have originally been considered to be a daughter of the Sun, as she hatched from an egg and

1053-517: A great number of details that vary by version, including the identity of Phaethon's mother, the location the story takes place, the role Phaethon's sisters the Heliades play, the motivation behind Phaethon's decision to ask his father for such thing, and even the exact relation between god and mortal. Traditionally, Phaethon was Helios' son by the Oceanid nymph Clymene , or alternatively Rhode or

1170-490: A revenge against her father Helios , for he had revealed to Aphrodite's husband Hephaestus her secret affair with Ares , the god of war, earning Aphrodite's eternal hatred for himself and his whole race. In some more obscure traditions, it was not Poseidon's bull but Minos' father Zeus disguised as one who made love to Pasiphaë and sired the Minotaur. An ancient Greek lexicon mentions a tradition where Zeus and Pasiphaë are

1287-490: A role in Proto-Indo-European poetry. The imagery surrounding a chariot-driving solar deity is likely Indo-European in origin. Greek solar imagery begins with the gods Helios and Eos, who are brother and sister, and who become in the day-and-night-cycle the day ( hemera ) and the evening ( hespera ), as Eos accompanies Helios in his journey across the skies. At night, he pastures his steeds and travels east in

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1404-432: A ship in order to escape Minos and Crete . In another, she helped him hide until he fashioned wings made of wax and bird feathers. While Pasiphaë is an immortal goddess in some texts, other authors treated her as a mortal woman, like Euripides who in his play Cretans has Minos sentence her to death (her eventual fate is unclear, as no relevant fragment survives). In Virgil's Aeneid , Aeneas sees her when he visits

1521-422: A single day. Helios does his best to dissuade him, arguing that sons are not necessarily fit to step into their fathers' shoes. But under pressure of Phaethon and Clymene's begging both, he eventually gives in. As per all other versions of the myth, Phaethon's ride is catastrophic and ends in his death. Hyginus wrote that Phaethon secretly mounted his father's car without said father's knowledge and leave, but with

1638-425: A throne of bright emeralds . In ancient artefacts (such as coins, vases, or reliefs) he is presented as a beautiful, full-faced youth with wavy hair, wearing a crown adorned with the sun's rays. Helios is said to drive a golden chariot drawn by four horses: Pyrois ("The Fiery One", not to be confused with Pyroeis , one of the five naked-eye planets known to ancient Greek and Roman astronomers ), Aeos ("He of

1755-490: A thunderbolt, killing everyone, except for Odysseus himself, the only one who had not harmed the cattle, and was allowed to live. Due to his position as the sun, he was believed to be an all-seeing witness, and thus was often invoked in oaths. He also played a significant part in ancient magic and spells. In art he is usually depicted as a beardless youth in a chiton holding a whip and driving his quadriga , accompanied by various other celestial gods such as Selene , Eos , or

1872-400: Is chased across the sky in her horse-drawn chariot by a wolf Greek mythology [ edit ] 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

1989-509: Is different from Wikidata Helios 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"). Helios

2106-494: Is likely Indo-European in origin and is common to both early Greek and Near Eastern religions. Helios is seen as both a personification of the Sun and the fundamental creative power behind it, and as a result is often worshiped as a god of life and creation. His literal "light" is often assorted with a metaphorical vitality, and other ancient texts give him the epithet "gracious" ( ἱλαρός ). The comic playwright Aristophanes describes Helios as "the horse-guider, who fills

2223-547: Is often depicted in art with a radiant crown and driving a horse-drawn chariot through the sky. He was a guardian of oaths and also the god of sight. Though Helios was a relatively minor deity in Classical Greece, his worship grew more prominent in late antiquity thanks to his identification with several major solar divinities of the Roman period, particularly Apollo and Sol . The Roman Emperor Julian made Helios

2340-458: Is preserved, an answer to Minos' accusations (not preserved) in which she excuses herself on account of acting under the constraint of divine power, and insists that the one to blame is actually Minos, who angered the sea-god. PASIPHAË: If I had sold the gifts of Kypris , given my body in secret to some man, you would have every right to condemn me as a whore. But this was no act of the will; I am suffering from some madness brought on by

2457-413: Is said to have seen and stood witness to everything that happened where his light shone. When Hades abducts Persephone , Helios is the only one to witness it. In Ovid's Fasti , Demeter asks the stars first about Persephone's whereabouts, and it is Helice who advises her to go ask Helios. Demeter is not slow to approach him, and Helios then tells her not to waste time, and seek out for "the queen of

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2574-1434: Is the Sun Yhi , Karraur goddess of the sun, light and creation Māori mythology [ edit ] Tama-nui-te-rā , personification of the Sun See also [ edit ] List of lunar deities Dawn goddess References [ edit ] ^ Monaghan, Patricia (2010). Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood. ISBN 9780313349904. ^ Monaghan, Patricia (2010). Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood. ISBN 9780313349904. ^ J. F. Breton (Trans. Albert LaFarge), Arabia Felix From The Time Of The Queen Of Sheba, Eighth Century B.C. To First Century A.D. , 1998, University of Notre Dame Press: Notre Dame (IN), pp. 119-120. ^ Julian Baldick (1998). Black God . Syracuse University Press. p. 20. ISBN   0815605226 . ^ Merriam-Webster, Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of World Religions , 1999 - 1181 páginas ^ J. Ryckmans, "South Arabia, Religion Of", in D. N. Freedman (Editor-in-Chief), The Anchor Bible Dictionary , 1992, Volume 6, op. cit., p. 172 ^ Cole, M. C. (1916). Philippine Folk Tales . Chicago: A.C. McClurg and Co. ^ Jenks, A. (1905). The Bontoc Igorot. Manila: Bureau of Printing. ^ Cawed, C. (1972). The Culture of

2691-474: Is the inherited word for the Sun from Proto-Indo-European * seh₂u-el which is cognate with Latin sol , Sanskrit surya , Old English swegl , Old Norse sól , Welsh haul , Avestan hvar , etc. The Doric and Aeolic form of the name is Ἅλιος , Hálios . In Homeric Greek his name is spelled Ἠέλιος , Ēélios , with the Doric spelling of that being Ἀέλιος , Aélios . In Cretan it

2808-515: Is the story of his mortal son Phaethon . In the Homeric epics , his most notable role is the one he plays in the Odyssey , where Odysseus ' men despite his warnings impiously kill and eat Helios's sacred cattle that the god kept at Thrinacia , his sacred island. Once informed of their misdeed, Helios in wrath asks Zeus to punish those who wronged him, and Zeus agreeing strikes their ship with

2925-416: Is unclear, but it has been suggested she is saved by some deus ex machina . A number of deities have been proposed for the identity of this possible deus ex machina, with Helios among them. In Ovid's account, Zeus' son Epaphus mocks Phaethon's claim that he is the son of the sun god; his mother Clymene tells Phaethon to go to Helios himself, to ask for confirmation of his paternity. Helios promises him on

3042-562: Is usually depicted as a handsome young man crowned with the shining aureole of the Sun, which traditionally had twelve rays, symbolising the twelve months of the year. Beyond his Homeric Hymn, not many texts describe his physical appearance; Euripides describes him as χρυσωπός (khrysо̄pós) meaning "golden-eyed/faced" or "beaming like gold", Mesomedes of Crete writes that he has golden hair, and Apollonius Rhodius that he has light-emitting, golden eyes. According to Augustan poet Ovid , he dressed in tyrian purple robes and sat on

3159-497: The Cretans , of which few fragments survive. Sections include a chorus of priests presenting themselves and addressing Minos, someone (perhaps a wetnurse) informing Minos of the newborn infant's nature (informing Minos and the audience, among others, that Pasiphaë breastfeeds the Minotaur like an infant), and a dialogue between Pasiphaë and Minos where they argue over which between them is responsible. Pasiphaë's speech defending herself

3276-417: The Sun , or an aspect of it, usually by its perceived power and strength. Solar deities and Sun worship can be found throughout most of recorded history in various forms. The following is a list of solar deities : African [ edit ] [REDACTED] The Bakongo Cosmogram , depicting Nzambi's four moments of the sun Bakongo mythology [ edit ] Nzambi Mpungu , Kongo god of

3393-691: The Underworld , describing Pasiphae residing in the Mournful Fields, a place inhabited by sinful lovers. In the general understanding of the Minoan myth, Pasiphaë and Daedalus' construction of the wooden cow allowed her to satisfy her desire for the Cretan Bull. Through this interpretation she was reduced from a near-divine figure (daughter of the Sun) to a stereotype of grotesque bestiality and

3510-461: The Bagobo gods whose fire create smoke that becomes the white clouds, while the Sun creates yellow clouds that make the colors of the rainbow Kadaw La Sambad: one of the two T'boli supreme deities; married to Bulon La Mogoaw; lives in the seventh layer of the universe Lageay Lengkuos: the greatest of Teduray heroes and a shaman (beliyan) who made the earth and forests; the only one who could pass

3627-668: The Bicolano son of Dagat and Paros; joined Daga's rebellion and died; his body became the sun; in another myth, he was alive and during a battle, he cut one of Bulan's arm and hit Bulan's eyes, where the arm was flattened and became the earth, while Bulan's tears became the rivers and seas Unnamed God: a Bicolano Sun god who fell in love with the mortal, Rosa; refused to light the world until his father consented to their marriage; he afterwards visited Rosa, but forgetting to remove his powers over fire, he accidentally burned Rosa's whole village until nothing but hot springs remained Sanghid:

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3861-475: The Dawn"), Aethon ("Blazing"), and Phlegon ("Burning"). In a Mithraic invocation, Helios's appearance is given as thus: A god is then summoned. He is described as "a youth, fair to behold, with fiery hair, clothed in a white tunic and a scarlet cloak and wearing a fiery crown." He is named as "Helios, lord of heaven and earth, god of gods." As mentioned above, the imagery surrounding a chariot-driving solar deity

3978-588: The Ethiops, with whom he passes the dark hours. According to Athenaeus, Mimnermus said that in the night Helios travels eastwards with the use of a bed (also created by Hephaestus) in which he sleeps, rather than a cup, as attested in the Titanomachy in the 8th century BCE. Aeschylus describes the sunset as such: "There [is] the sacred wave, and the coralled bed of the Erythræan Sea , and [there]

4095-940: The Evidence for the Indo-European Origin of Two Ancient Chinese Deities ^ "Nữ thần mặt trời và nữ thần mặt trăng - Thần thoại Việt Nam" . TruyệnXưaTíchCũ . Retrieved 17 March 2023 . ^ "UM CULTO SOLAR OU RITUAL DE FECUNDIDADE" . Archived from the original on 2011-12-30 . Retrieved 2019-01-25 . ^ Enciclopédia das Festas Populares e Religiosas de Portugal . Vol. 1. Lulu.com. p. 64. ISBN   9789892013916 . ^ "TEÓFILO BRAGA. O POVO PORTUGUEZ NOS SEUS COSTUMES, CRENÇAS E TRADIÇÕES II" . Lisboa, Livraria Ferreira. 1885. ^ Ridderstad, Marianna (2009). "Evidence of Minoan Astronomy and Calendrical Practises". arXiv : 0910.4801 [ physics.hist-ph ]. ^ Marinatos, Nanno. Minoan Kingship and

4212-993: The Filipino Nation, edited by Cruz-Lucero, R. ^ Fox, R. B. (1982). Religion and Society Among the Tagbanuas of Palawan Island, Philippines. Manila: National Museum. ^ Benedict, L. W. (1913). Bagobo Myths. Journal of American Folklore, pp. 26 (99): 13–63. ^ Casal, G. (1978). The T'boli Creation Myth and Religion. T'boli Art: in its Socio-Cultural Context, pp. 122–123. ^ Wood, G. L. (1957). Philippine Sociological Review Vol. 5, No. 2: The Tiruray. Philippine Sociological Society. ^ Talaguit, C. J. N. (2019). Folk-Islam in Maranao Society. History Department, De La Salle University – Manila. ^ The Problem of Tocharian Origins: An Archaeological Perspective ^ The Spider’s Web. Goddesses of Light and Loom: Examining

4329-602: The Kapampangan supreme deity who created life on earth in remembrance of his dead daughter; lives in the Sun; in other versions, she is the creator and net-weaver of the heavens Aring Sinukûan: the Kapampangan Sun god of war and death, taught the early inhabitants the industry of metallurgy, wood cutting, rice culture and even waging war; lives in Mount Arayat, and later included a female form Apolaki:

4446-645: The Meroitic god of war and sometimes depicted as the god the Sun Zulu mythology [ edit ] uMvelinqangi , Xhosa and Zulu people 's god of the Sun and sky iNyanga, Zulu people , goddess of the Moon Ukhulukhulwana, Zulu people 's ancestor who came from the stars. He taught them to build huts and taught them the high laws of isiNtu American [ edit ] Aztec mythology [ edit ] Huitzilopochtli , god of

4563-487: The Minotaur he describes the unnatural and deceptive manner of the beast's conception. Fiona Benson 's third collection of poetry, Ephemeron , contains a long section entitled Translations from the Pasiphaë in which she retells the Minotaur myth from the point of view of the bull-child's mother. List of solar deities A solar deity is a god or goddess who represents

4680-516: The Minotaur, are associated with the astrological sign of Taurus. The myth of Pasiphaë and the Cretan Bull became widely depicted in art throughout history. Pasiphaë was most often depicted with a bull near her, signifying the connection to the myth. One of Jupiter's 79 moons, discovered in 1908, is named after Pasiphaë , the woman of the myth of the Minotaur. Pasiphaé is mentioned in Canto 12 of Dante Alighieri 's Inferno . When Dante encounters

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4914-2327: The Solar Goddess: A Near Eastern Koine (2013). ^ O'Brien, Steven. "Dioscuric Elements in Celtic and Germanic Mythology". In: Journal of Indo-European Studies 10:1–2 (Spring–Summer, 1982), pp. 117–136. ^ Meagher, Robert E. (2002). The Meaning of Helen: In Search of an Ancient Icon . Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. pp. 46ff. ISBN   978-0-86516-510-6 . ^ West, Martin L. (2007). Indo-European Poetry and Myth . Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-928075-9 . v t e The Sun List Internal structure Core Radiation zone Tachocline Convection zone Atmosphere Photosphere Supergranulation Granule Faculae Sunspot Ellerman bomb Chromosphere Plage Spicule Moreton wave Corona Transition region Coronal hole Coronal loop Coronal mass ejection Nanoflare Prominence Helmet streamer Supra-arcade downflows Alfvén surface Moss Variation Solar cycle List of solar cycles Active region Solar maximum Solar minimum Sunspot number Solar wind Solar wind turbulence Magnetic switchback Flare Helioseismology Heliosphere Current sheet Termination shock Heliosheath Heliopause Bow shock Related Eclipse In mythology and culture Lunar eclipse Heliophysics In culture Solar deity List Sun in fiction Solar activity Solar astronomy Solar dynamo Solar energy Solar neutrino Solar observation Solar phenomena Solar physics Solar radio emission Solar System Solar telescope Solar time Space climate Space weather Standard solar model Star Sunlight radiation Spectral class G-type main-sequence star Exploration Solar observatory List of heliophysics missions Category:Missions to

5031-1797: The Sun [REDACTED] Category v t e Lists of mythological figures By geography African Albanian Arabian Armenian Australian Aboriginal Aztec Balkan Basque Batak Canaanite Catalan Celtic List Chahta Chinese Efik Egyptian Index List Elamite Estonian Etruscan Finnish Georgian Germanic Anglo-Saxon Greek Mycenaean Guanche Haudenosaunee Hawaiian Hebridean Indian-origin religions Hindu List Rigvedic Buddhist China Japan Jain List Meitei List Hittite Hungarian Hurrian Indonesian Inuit Irish Japanese Kassite Komi Korean Lakota Lithuanian Māori Māʻohi Maya Mesopotamian Micronesian Muskogee Myanmar Native American Zapotec Ossetian Persian Philippine Purépecha Roman Sami Samoan Slavic Turkic Tuvaluan Ugaritic Vainakh Yoruba By association Agriculture Art Beauty Chaos Dawn Creator Death Earth Fate and Time Fertility Fire Fortune Health Household Hunting King of

5148-538: The Sun Ba'al , god of life and fertility, also associated with the Sun and storms Chinese mythology [ edit ] [REDACTED] Statue of the goddess Xihe charioteering the Sun, being pulled by a dragon , in Hangzhou Doumu , Sun goddess sometimes conflated with Marici . Xihe , Sun goddess and mother of the ten suns Yu Yi, god that carries the Sun across the sky Xu Kai, god of

5265-548: The Sun Lugh , Sun god as well as a writing and warrior god Macha , "Sun of the womanfolk" and occasionally considered synonymous with Grian Olwen , female figure often constructed as originally the Welsh Sun goddess Sulis , British goddess whose name is related to the common Proto-Indo-European word for "Sun" and thus cognate with Helios , Sól , Sol , and Surya and who retains solar imagery, as well as

5382-631: The Sun Shams /Shamsun, a solar goddess exalted in Himyar and by the Sabaeans . Armenian mythology [ edit ] Ar/Arev, the Sun god with its people as "children of the Sun" Buddhist mythology [ edit ] Marici , goddess of the heavens, the Sun, and light Surya , god of the Sun (Suriya Pariththa, Suthra Pitaka, Pali canon, Theravada Buddhism) Canaanite mythology [ edit ] Shapash , goddess of

5499-624: The Sun Wi , Lakota god of the Sun Aba' Bínni'li' , the Chickasaw creator deity, strongly associated with the sun. Unelanuhi , Cherokee sun goddess. Asian [ edit ] Ainu mythology [ edit ] Chup Kamui , a lunar goddess who switched places with her brother to become goddess of the Sun Arabian mythology [ edit ] Malakbel , god of

5616-473: The Sun abandoning humanity. According to a fragment of Archilochus , it is Zeus who blocks Helios and makes him disappear from the sky. In one of his paeans , the lyric poet Pindar describes a solar eclipse as the Sun's light being hidden from the world, a bad omen of destruction and doom: Beam of the sun! What have you contrived, observant one, mother of eyes, highest star, in concealing yourself in broad daylight? Why have you made helpless men's strength and

5733-513: The Sun and creation Bantu mythology [ edit ] Nyambe , the Bantu god of the Sun and creation Berber/Amazigh mythology [ edit ] Magec , Tenerife goddess of the Sun and light Igbo mythology [ edit ] Anyanwu , Igbo god believed to dwell in the Sun Dahomey mythology [ edit ] Mawu , Dahomey goddess associated with

5850-821: The Sun and husband of Chía , the Moon Other American Indian mythology [ edit ] Aqalax , Kathlamet sun woman. Jóhonaaʼéí , the Navajo Sun god, known as "The One Who Rules the Day" Kisosen , the Abenaki solar deity, an eagle whose wings opened to create the day and closed to cause the nighttime Napioa , the Blackfoot deity of the Sun Tawa , the Hopi creator and god of

5967-537: The Sun and judgment Sun goddess of Arinna Sun god of Heaven , daylight god of judgement Sun goddess of the Earth , infernal goddess of the underworld. Japanese mythology [ edit ] [REDACTED] Amaterasu emerging out of a cave, bringing sunlight back to the universe. Amaterasu , goddess of the Sun Mesopotamian mythology [ edit ] Shamash , Akkadian god of

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6084-450: The Sun and justice Utu , Sumerian god of the Sun and justice Šerida , Sumerian goddess of light, married to the god of the Sun (Akkadian name Aya) Scythian religion [ edit ] Tabiti , ancient Iranian goddess possibly connected with the Sun. Tocharian [ edit ] A "sun deity" ( kaum näkte ), possibly a goddess. Turkic mythology [ edit ] Gun Ana , common Turkic solar deity, seen as

6201-528: The Sun and patron deity of the Inca Empire Ch'aska ("Venus") or Ch'aska Quyllur ("Morning star") was the goddess of dawn, twilight, youth, and, the planet itself Mapuche mythology [ edit ] Antü , Sun deity or pillán of the mapuche from Chile and Argentina Inuit mythology [ edit ] Akycha , Sun goddess worshiped in Alaska Siqiniq , goddess of

6318-489: The Sun and protector of humanity Celtic mythology [ edit ] Áine , Irish goddess of love, summer, wealth, and sovereignty, associated with the Sun and midsummer Alaunus , Gaulish god of the Sun, healing, and prophecy Belenos , Gaulish god of the Sun Brighid , Irish sun goddess Étaín , Irish Sun goddess Grannus , god associated with spas, healing thermal and mineral springs, and

6435-636: The Sun and the Moon Egyptian mythology [ edit ] Amun , creator deity sometimes identified as a Sun god Aten , god of the Sun, the visible disc of the Sun Atum , the "finisher of the world" who represents the Sun as it sets Bast , cat goddess associated with the Sun Hathor , mother of Horus and Ra and goddess of the Sun Horus , god of the sky whose right eye

6552-532: The Sun and war Nanahuatzin , god of the Sun Teoyaomicqui , god of lost souls, the Sun, and the sixth hour of the day Tonatiuh , god of the Sun and ruler of the heavens Brazilian mythology [ edit ] Guaraci , god of the Sun ( Guarani mythology ) Meri , folk hero and god of the Sun Inca mythology [ edit ] Apu Inti , also known as Apu Punchaw, god of

6669-604: The Sun found across Greenland, northern Canada, and Alaska. Maya mythology [ edit ] Ah Kin , god of the Sun, bringer of doubt, and protector against the evils associated with darkness Hunahpu , one of the Maya Hero Twins ; he transformed into the Sun while his brother transformed into the Moon Kinich Ahau , god of the Sun Muisca mythology [ edit ] Sué , god of

6786-411: 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. Hittite mythology [ edit ] Istanu , goddess/god of

6903-520: The Sun star Elamite [ edit ] Nahundi , god of the Sun and law Filipino mythology [ edit ] Main article: List of Philippine mythological figures Init-init: the Itneg god of the Sun married to the mortal Aponibolinayen; during the day, he leaves his house to shine light on the world Chal-chal: the Bontok god of the Sun whose son's head was cut off by Kabigat; aided

7020-548: The Sun, god of light , sky and weather , giver of life, health and energy, and all-seeing eye. Armenian mythology [ edit ] Arev Areg Arpʻi [REDACTED] Idol of the Saulė used for peasant rituals in early 20th century from Palūšė , Ignalina District Baltic mythology [ edit ] Saulė , goddess of the Sun Basque mythology [ edit ] Ekhi , goddess of

7137-688: The Sun, spring, fertility, and sanity Slavic mythology [ edit ] Dažbog , god of the Sun Hors , god of the Sun Oceania [ edit ] Australian Aboriginal mythology [ edit ] Bila , cannibal sun goddess of the Adnyamathanha Gnowee , solar goddess who searches daily for her lost son; the light of her torch is the Sun Wala , solar goddess Wuriupranili , solar goddess whose torch

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7371-399: The Tagalog god of sun and warriors; son of Anagolay and Dumakulem; sometimes referred as son of Bathala and brother of Mayari; ruler of the world during daytime Quadruple Deities: the four childless naked Tau-buid Mangyan deities, composed of two gods who come from the Sun and two goddesses who come from the upper part of the river; summoned using the paragayan or diolang plates Adlao:

7488-466: The Tagbanwa god found at exactly noontime on the other side of the Sun; gives the warmth which sustains life and, when the people are ill, carries away sickness Tumangkuyun: wash and keep clean the trunks of the two sacred cardinal trees in Sidpan and Babatan by using the blood of those who have died in epidemics; the blood he uses causes the colors of the sunrise and sunset Libtakan: the Manobo god of sunrise, sunset, and good weather Unnamed Gods:

7605-443: The Waray giant who wove cloth on a gold loom with supernatural speed; has the power to move back the Sun Liadlao: the gold-bodied Bisaya son of Lidagat and Lihangin; killed by Kaptan's rage during the great revolt; his body became the Sun Adlaw: the Bisaya Sun deity worshiped by the good Launsina: the Capiznon goddess of the Sun, Moon, stars, and seas, and the most beloved because people seek forgiveness from her Magrakad:

7722-441: The aid of his sisters the Heliades who yoked the horses. In all retellings, Helios recovers the reins in time, thus saving the earth. Another consistent detail across versions are that Phaethon's sisters the Heliades mourn him by the Eridanus and are turned into black poplar trees, who shed tears of amber . According to Quintus Smyrnaeus , it was Helios who turned them into trees, for their honour to Phaethon. In one version of

7839-488: The appeal of the other gods, as well as Zeus' threats. He then takes his anger out on his four horses, whipping them in fury for causing his son's death. Nonnus of Panopolis presented a slightly different version of the myth, narrated by Hermes; according to him, Helios met and fell in love with Clymene, the daughter of the Ocean , and the two soon got married with her father's blessing. When he grows up, fascinated with his father's job, he asks him to drive his chariot for

7956-400: The central divinity of his short-lived revival of traditional Roman religious practices in the 4th century AD. Helios figures prominently in several works of Greek mythology, poetry, and literature, in which he is often described as the son of the Titans Hyperion and Theia and brother of the goddesses Selene (the Moon) and Eos (the Dawn). Helios' most notable role in Greek mythology

8073-495: The cities Ialysos , Camiros and Lindos on the island, named after themselves; thus Rhodes came to belong to him and his line, with the autochthonous peoples of Rhodes claiming descend from the Heliadae. The most well known story about Helios is the one involving his son Phaethon , who asked him to drive his chariot for a single day. Although all versions agree that Phaethon convinced Helios to give him his chariot, and that he failed in his task with disastrous results, there are

8190-406: The division of portions again, but Helios refused the offer, for he had seen a new land emerging from the deep of the sea; a rich, productive land for humans and good for cattle too. Helios asked for this island to be given to him, and Zeus agreed to it, with Lachesis (one of the three Fates ) raising her hands to confirm the oath. Alternatively in another tradition, it was Helios himself who made

8307-413: The figure was worshipped as a lunar deity . However, further studies on Minoan religion indicate that the sun was a female figure, suggesting instead that Pasiphaë was originally a solar goddess , an interpretation consistent with her depiction as Helios ' daughter. Poseidon's bull may in turn be vestigial of the lunar bull prevalent in Ancient Mesopotamian religion . Nowadays, Pasiphaë and her son,

8424-576: The god Lumawig in finding a spouse Mapatar: the Ifugao sun deity of the sky in charge of daylight Sun God: the Ibaloi deity who pushed up the skyworld and pushed down the underworld, creating earth, after he was hit by a man's arrow during the war between the peoples of the skyworld and the underworld Elag: the Bugkalot deity of the Sun, worshiped with the moon and stars; has a magnificent house in

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8658-469: The golden cup which he used to sail across the sea every night, from the west to the east because he found Heracles' actions immensely bold. In the versions delivered by Apollodorus and Pherecydes, Heracles was only about to shoot Helios, but according to Panyassis , he did shoot and wounded the god. Solar eclipses were phaenomena of fear as well as wonder in Ancient Greece, and were seen as

8775-533: The island rise from the sea when he caused the water which had overflowed it to disappear. He named it Rhodes, after his lover Rhode (the daughter of Poseidon and Aphrodite or Amphitrite ), and it became the god's sacred island, where he was honoured above all other gods. With Rhode Helios sired seven sons, known as the Heliadae ("sons of the Sun"), who became the first rulers of the island, as well as one daughter, Electryone . Three of their grandsons founded

8892-576: The land and create a new race of men from the beginning? Some lists, cited by Hyginus, of the names of horses that pulled Helios' chariot, are as follows. Scholarship acknowledges that, despite differences between the lists, the names of the horses always seem to refer to fire, flame, light and other luminous qualities. Hyginus writes that according to Homer, the horses' names are Abraxas and Therbeeo; but Homer makes no mention of horses or chariot. Alexander of Aetolia , cited in Athenaeus, related that

9009-758: The light of the Sun, by ordering Helios not to rise for those three days. Satirical author Lucian of Samosata dramatized this myth in one of his Dialogues of the Gods . While Heracles was travelling to Erytheia to retrieve the cattle of Geryon for his tenth labour, he crossed the Libyan desert and was so frustrated at the heat that he shot an arrow at Helios, the Sun. Almost immediately, Heracles realized his mistake and apologized profusely ( Pherecydes wrote that Heracles stretched his arrow at him menacingly, but Helios ordered him to stop, and Heracles in fear desisted ); In turn and equally courteous, Helios granted Heracles

9126-493: The luxuriant marsh of the Ethiopians, situated near the ocean, glitters like polished brass; where daily in the soft and tepid stream, the all-seeing Sun bathes his undying self, and refreshes his weary steeds." Athenaeus adds that "Helios gained a portion of toil for all his days", as there is no rest for either him or his horses. Although the chariot is usually said to be the work of Hephaestus , Hyginus states that it

9243-426: The magical herb grew on the island Thrinacia , which was sacred to Helios, and served as a remedy against fatigue for the sun god's horses. Aeschrion of Samos informed that it was known as the "dog's-tooth" and was believed to have been sown by Cronus. According to Pindar, when the gods divided the earth among them, Helios was absent, and thus he got no lot of land. He complained to Zeus about it, who offered to do

9360-410: The magnet stone in the straight between the big and little oceans; inverted the directions where east became west, inverted the path of the Sun, and made the water into land and land into water Sun Deity: the divine Maranao being depicted in an anthropomorphic form as a flaming young man; angels serve as his charioteers Hindu mythology [ edit ] [REDACTED] Surya Surya ,

9477-449: The male Heliadae . The author of the Suda lexicon tried to etymologically connect ἥλιος to the word ἀολλίζεσθαι , aollízesthai , "coming together" during the daytime, or perhaps from ἀλεαίνειν , aleaínein , "warming". Plato in his dialogue Cratylus suggested several etymologies for the word, proposing among others a connection, via the Doric form of the word halios , to

9594-482: The modern English prefix helio- , meaning "pertaining to the Sun", used in compounds word such as heliocentrism , aphelion , heliotropium , heliophobia (fear of the sun) and heliolatry ("sun-worship"). Helios most likely is Proto-Indo-European in origin. Walter Burkert wrote that "... Helios, the sun god, and Eos - Aurora , the goddess of the dawn , are of impeccable Indo-European lineage both in etymology and in their status as gods" and might have played

9711-494: The myth, Helios conveyed his dead son to the stars, as a constellation (the Auriga ). But, Goddess, give up for good your great lamentation. You must not nurse in vain insatiable anger. Among the gods Aidoneus is not an unsuitable bridegroom, Commander-of-Many and Zeus's own brother of the same stock. As for honor, he got his third at the world's first division and dwells with those whose rule has fallen to his lot. Helios

9828-534: The newborn goddess' sight. In the Iliad Hera who supports the Greeks, makes him set earlier than usual against his will during battle, and later still during the same war, after his sister Eos's son Memnon was killed, she made him downcast, causing his light to fade, so she could be able to freely steal her son's body undetected by the armies, as he consoled his sister in her grief over Memnon's death. It

9945-634: The original koine of Sparta . The geographer Pausanias describes the shrine as small, situated near a clear stream, and flanked by bronze statues of Helios and Pasiphaë. His account also equates Pasiphaë with Ino and the lunar goddess Selene . Cicero writes in De Divinatione 1.96 that the Spartan ephors would sleep at the shrine of Pasiphaë, seeking prophetic dreams to aid them in governance. According to Plutarch , Spartan society twice underwent major upheavals sparked by ephors' dreams at

10062-474: The otherwise unknown Prote. In one version of the story, Phaethon is Helios' grandson, rather than son, through the boy's father Clymenus . In this version, Phaethon's mother is an Oceanid nymph named Merope. In Euripides' lost play Phaethon , surviving only in twelve fragments, Phaethon is the product of an illicit liaison between his mother Clymene (who is now married to Merops , the king of Aethiopia ) and Helios, though she claimed that her lawful husband

10179-761: The parents of the Egyptian god Amun , who was identified with Zeus. In other aspects, Pasiphaë, like her niece Medea , was a mistress of magical herbal arts in the Greek imagination. The author of Bibliotheke records the fidelity charm she placed upon Minos, who would ejaculate serpents, scorpions, and centipedes killing any unlawful concubine; but Procris , with a protective circean herb , lay with Minos with impunity. In another version, this unexplained disease that tormented Minos killed all his concubines and prevented him and Pasiphaë from having any children (the scorpions and serpents did not otherwise harm Pasiphaë, as she

10296-446: The path of wisdom, by rushing down a dark highway? Do you drive a stranger course than before? In the name of Zeus, swift driver of horses, I beg you, turn the universal omen, lady, into some painless prosperity for Thebes ... Do you bring a sign of some war or wasting of crops or a mass of snow beyond telling or ruinous strife or emptying of the sea on land or frost on the earth or a rainy summer flowing with raging water, or will you flood

10413-472: The plain of the earth with exceeding bright beams, a mighty deity among gods and mortals." One passage recorded in the Greek Magical Papyri says of Helios, "the earth flourished when you shone forth and made the plants fruitful when you laughed and brought to life the living creatures when you permitted." He is said to have helped create animals out of primeval mud. Helios was envisioned as

10530-538: The river Styx any gift that he might ask as a proof of paternity; Phaethon asks for the privilege to drive Helios' chariot for a single day. Although Helios warns his son of how dangerous and disastrous this would be, he is nevertheless unable to change Phaethon's mind or revoke his promise. Phaethon takes the reins, and the earth burns when he travels too low, and freezes when he takes the chariot too high. Zeus strikes Phaethon with lightning, killing him. Helios refuses to resume his job, but he returns to his task and duty at

10647-415: The seven Pleiades keep thy steadfast way." And then— "This said, his son undaunted snatched the reins, Then smote the winged coursers' sides: they bound Forth on the void and cavernous vault of air. His father mounts another steed, and rides With warning voice guiding his son. 'Drive there! Turn, turn thy car this way." If this messenger did witness the flight himself, it is possible there

10764-536: The shocking excesses of lust and deceit. Pasiphaë appeared in Virgil 's Eclogue VI (45–60), in Silenus' list of suitable mythological subjects, on which Virgil lingers in such detail that he gives the sixteen-line episode the weight of a brief inset myth. In Ovid's Ars Amatoria Pasiphaë is framed in zoophilic terms: Pasiphae fieri gaudebat adultera tauri —"Pasiphaë took pleasure in becoming an adulteress with

10881-589: The shrine during the Hellenistic era. In one case, an ephor dreamed that some of his colleagues' chairs were removed from the agora , and that a voice called out "this is better for Sparta"; inspired by this, King Cleomenes acted to consolidate royal power. Again during the reign of King Agis , several ephors brought the people into revolt with oracles from Pasiphaë's shrine promising remission of debts and redistribution of land. In Description of Greece , Pausanias equates Pasiphaë with Selene , implying that

10998-428: The skies, trying to give him instructions on how to drive the chariot while he rides on a spare horse named Sirius, as someone, perhaps a paedagogus informs Clymene of Phaethon's fate, who is probably accompanied by slave women: Take, for instance, that passage in which Helios, in handing the reins to his son, says— "Drive on, but shun the burning Libyan tract; The hot dry air will let thine axle down: Toward

11115-530: The sky realm called Gacay; retreats to his home during nights; giver of light and growth Apo Init: the Ilocano deity of the sun Amman: the Ilocano god of the Sun, where the sun is his eye Agueo: the morose and taciturn Pangasinense sun god who is obedient to his father, Ama; lives in a palace of light Algao: the Aeta Sun god who battled the giant turtle Bacobaco Mangetchay: also called Mangatia;

11232-509: The stars. In ancient times he was worshipped in several places of ancient Greece, though his major cult centers were the island of Rhodes , of which he was patron god, Corinth and the greater Corinthia region. The Colossus of Rhodes , a gigantic statue of the god, adorned the port of Rhodes until it was destroyed in an earthquake, thereupon it was not built again. The Greek noun ἥλιος ( GEN ἡλίου , DAT ἡλίῳ , ACC ἥλιον , VOC ἥλιε ) (from earlier ἁϝέλιος /hāwelios/)

11349-459: The structure, allowing the bull to mate with her. Pasiphaë fell pregnant and gave birth to a half-human half-bull creature that fed solely on human flesh. The child was named Asterius, after the previous king, but was commonly called the Minotaur ("the bull of Minos"). The myth of Pasiphaë's coupling with the bull and the subsequent birth of the Minotaur was the subject of Euripides 's lost play

11466-402: The sun, were seen as the "Eye of Heaven". Helios is the son of Hyperion and Theia , or Euryphaessa, or Basileia, and the only brother of the goddesses Eos and Selene. If the order of mention of the three siblings is meant to be taken as their birth order, then out of the four authors that give him and his sisters a birth order, two make him the oldest child, one the middle, and the other

11583-506: The sunrise Hungarian mythology [ edit ] Nap Király , the Hungarian god of sun who rides his silver fur horse everyday from east to west. Nap Anya , Goddess of the sun and partner of Nap király Lusitanian mythology [ edit ] Endovelicus , god of health and safety, worshipped both as a solar deity and a chthonic one Neto , potentially both a solar and war deity A possible sun goddess, whose cult

11700-533: The third world". In another myth, Aphrodite was married to Hephaestus, but she cheated on him with his brother Ares , god of war. In Book Eight of the Odyssey , the blind singer Demodocus describes how the illicit lovers committed adultery, until one day Helios caught them in the act, and immediately informed Aphrodite's husband Hephaestus. Upon learning that, Hephaestus forged a net so thin it could hardly be seen, in order to ensnare them. He then announced that he

11817-413: The words ἁλίζειν , halízein , meaning collecting men when he rises, or from the phrase ἀεὶ εἱλεῖν , aeí heileín , "ever turning" because he always turns the earth in his course. Doric Greek retained Proto-Greek long *ā as α , while Attic changed it in most cases, including in this word, to η . Cratylus and the etymologies Plato gives are contradicted by modern scholarship. From helios comes

11934-712: The world and, consequently, the being that drove out the darkness and allowed man to live another day. Vietnamese mythology [ edit ] Goddess Thần Mặt Trời , the embodiment of the sun, the daughter of Ông Trời , old sister of Thần Mặt Trăng , she and her sister have a husband who is a bear, when the Bear God wants to meet them, a solar or lunar eclipse will appear. European [ edit ] Albanian mythology [ edit ] [REDACTED] Sun ( Dielli ) and Fire ( Zjarri ) symbols in Albanian traditional tattoo patterns (19th century). Dielli ,

12051-498: The youngest. Helios was not among the regular and more prominent deities, rather he was a more shadowy member of the Olympian circle, despite the fact that he was among the most ancient. From his lineage, Helios might be described as a second generation Titan. He is associated with harmony and order, both literally in the sense of the movement of celestial bodies and metaphorically in the sense of bringing order to society. Helios

12168-428: Was Ἀβέλιος ( Abélios ) or Ἀϝέλιος ( Awélios ). The Greek view of gender was also present in their language. Ancient Greek had three genders (masculine, feminine and neuter), so when an object or a concept was personified as a deity, it inherited the gender of the relevant noun; helios is a masculine noun, so the god embodying it is also by necessity male. The female offspring of Helios were called Heliades ,

12285-432: Was Helios himself who built it. His chariot is described as golden, or occasionally "rosy", and pulled by four white horses. The Horae , goddesses of the seasons, are part of his retinue and help him yoke his chariot. His sister Eos is said to have not only opened the gates for Helios, but would often accompany him as well. In the extreme east and west were said to be people who tended to his horses, for whom summer

12402-516: Was also a passage where he described Helios taking control over the bolting horses in the same manner as Lucretius described. Phaethon inevitably dies; a fragment near the end of the play has Clymene order the slave girls hide Phaethon's still-smouldering body from Merops, and laments Helios' role in her son's death, saying he destroyed him and her both. Near the end of the play it seems that Merops, having found out about Clymene's affair and Phaethon's true parentage, tries to kill her; her eventual fate

12519-430: Was an immortal child of the Sun ). Procris then inserted a goat 's bladder into a woman, told Minos to ejaculate the scorpions in there, and then sent him to Pasiphaë. The couple was thus able to conceive eight children. Records indicate, this became the first modern documentation of a sheath or condom, though working to promote fertility. In one version of the story, Pasiphaë supplied Daedalus and his son Icarus with

12636-566: Was believed to have become that of Virgin Mary Nossa Senhora de Antime. Minoan mythology [ edit ] Possibly the Snake Goddess . Proto-Indo-European mythology [ edit ] Sehul eye of Dyēws Roman mythology [ edit ] Aurora , goddess of dawn Sol , god of the Sun, rides in a horse-drawn chariot Sami mythology [ edit ] Beiwe , goddess of

12753-478: Was born, Minos refused to sacrifice this bull, and sacrificed another, inferior bull instead. As punishment, Poseidon cursed his wife Pasiphaë to experience lust for the white, splendid bull. Ultimately, Pasiphaë went to Daedalus and asked him to help her mate with the bull. Daedalus then created a hollow wooden cow covered with real cow-skin, so realistic that it fooled the Cretan Bull . Pasiphaë climbed into

12870-578: Was considered to be the Sun and his left the Moon Khepri , god of the rising Sun, creation and renewal of life Ptah , god of craftsmanship, the arts, and fertility, sometimes said to represent the Sun at night Ra , god of the Sun Sekhmet , goddess of war and of the Sun, sometimes also plagues and creator of the desert Sopdu , god of war and the scorching heat of the summer Sun Nubian mythology [ edit ] Apedemak ,

12987-438: Was given in marriage to King Minos of Crete . With Minos, she was the mother of Acacallis , Ariadne , Androgeus , Glaucus , Deucalion , Phaedra , Xenodice , and Catreus . After having sex with the Cretan Bull, she gave birth to the "star-like" Asterion, who became known as the Minotaur . Minos was required to sacrifice "the fairest bull born in its herd" to Poseidon each year. One year, an extremely beautiful bull

13104-592: Was given tree worship, features associated with the Proto-Indo-European Sun Maiden; in surviving Greek tradition however Helen is never said to be Helios' daughter, instead being the daughter of Zeus . It has been suggested that the Phoenicians brought over the cult of their patron god Baal among others (such as Astarte ) to Corinth , who was then continued to be worshipped under the native name/god Helios, similarly to how Astarte

13221-495: Was leaving for Lemnos . Upon hearing that, Ares went to Aphrodite and the two lovers coupled. Once again Helios informed Hephaestus, who came into the room and trapped them in the net. He then called the other gods to witness the humiliating sight. Much later versions add a young man to the story, a warrior named Alectryon , tasked by Ares to stand guard should anyone approach. But Alectryon fell asleep, allowing Helios to discover

13338-408: Was perpetual and fruitful. On several instances in mythology the normal solar schedule is disrupted; he was ordered not to rise for three days during the conception of Heracles , and made the winter days longer in order to look upon Leucothoe . Athena 's birth was a sight so impressive that Helios halted his steeds and stayed still in the sky for a long while, as heaven and earth both trembling at

13455-400: Was said that summer days are longer due to Helios often stopping his chariot mid-air to watch from above nymphs dancing during the summer, and sometimes he is late to rise because he lingers with his consort. If the other gods wish so, Helios can be hastened on his daily course when they wish it to be night. When Zeus desired to sleep with Alcmene , he made one night last threefold, hiding

13572-425: Was the father of her all her children. Clymene reveals the truth to her son, and urges him to travel east to get confirmation from his father after she informs him that Helios promised to grant their child any wish when he slept with her. Although reluctant at first, Phaethon is convinced and sets on to find his birth father. In a surviving fragment from the play, Helios accompanies his son in his ill-fated journey in

13689-562: Was worshipped as Aphrodite , and the Phoenician Melqart was adopted as the sea-god Melicertes / Palaemon , who also had a significant cult in the isthmus of Corinth . Helios' journey on a chariot during the day and travel with a boat in the ocean at night possibly reflects the Egyptian sun god Ra sailing across the skies in a barque to be reborn at dawn each morning anew; additionally, both gods, being associated with

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