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2025-11-16 10:09:51
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"Hastened by the golden-haired Horai Sol (the Sun) puts on his diadem of myriad rays [. . .] Then above the earth and above the horns of the eastern mount he shone forth, and drew a train of light over the sparkling waves."

Silver bowl with a sacrifice scene in relief: a youthful priest wearing a flowing sleeveless tunic and a mantle rolled around his waist and draped over his left arm, a laurel wreath in his full curly locks, cradling pomegranates and other fruit in the crook of his left arm, gripping a goat by its horn, leading it toward a flaming hexagonal altar, embellished with scrolling dots on the upper surface and base, a wreath around its center, the altar situated at the base of the steps of a Temple to …