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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
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 …
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-08-17 10:29:19
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"Sol puts on his diadem of myriad rays and the corselet woven of twelve stars [the zodiac constellations] and bound by the belt which athwart the rain-clouds shows for men its many hued bow."
Valerius Flaccus, Argonautic…

Mosaic of Helios as part of the Mosaic of the Planetarium. We see his bust inside a circle, decorated by an outer circle of decorative leaves. Helios wears a dark fabric on his right shoulder, likely a chlamys cloak. His curly hair falls to his shoulders and his head is illuminated by an aureola with 12 spikes.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-10-12 10:21:37
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"Golden Titan [Helios the Sun], whose eternal eye with matchless sight illuminates all the sky. Native, unwearied in diffusing light, and to all eyes the object of delight."
Orphic Hymn 8 to Helios
🏛️ Roman silver …

Photograph of a finger ring against a black background. The solid hoop flat on the interior is rounded on the exterior and expanding to the broad angular shoulders. The bezel is centered by a relief radiate bust of Helios in profile to the right, framed by raised bands. The face and hair of Helios are cut out of the sheet gold to reveal the silver below.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-07 10:23:17
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"You will find sheep and cattle grazing there; they belong to a god, all-seeing, all-hearing Helios (the Sun). If you leave these unharmed--if you set your mind only to return--you may all of you still reach Ithaka, though with mu…

Terracotta oil lamp depicting Odysseus with the Sun. Helios is seated, wearing his sunray crown. Three of his horses can be seen in the background.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-10-05 10:24:30
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"And Hyperionides [Helios] answered her: 'Queen Demeter, daughter of rich-haired Rheia, I will tell you the truth; for I greatly reverence and pity you in your grief for your trim-ankled daughter. None other of the deathless g…

Vase painting of Helios, the Sun, rising from the sea in the morning. He is standing in his chariot, holding the reins and a riding crop. His head is surrounded by a shining aureola. A fish and shellfish represent the sea while stars litter the night sky above.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-11-02 20:31:05
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"The Daughters of the Sun, the Lord of Omens, shed [tears] for Phaethon slain, when by Eridanos' flood they mourned for him. These, for undying honour to his son, the god [Helios] made amber, precious in men's eyes."

Panel of a sarcophagus with a marble relief of Helios grieving for his son Phaethon. He is comforted by a child and a female figure.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-08-31 10:25:05
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"She [Gaia] prayed to Titan Helios with submissive voice: she begged of him one red hot ray, that with its heating fire she might melt the petrified water of Zeus, by pouring his kindred radiance over frozen Typhon."
Non…

Bronze figurine of the Roman sun god Sol. He's standing, his right arm raised, a riding crop in his left. A seven-spiked sun ray crown adorns his head. A himation is draped around his shoulders and left arm.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-10-26 10:09:06
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"Never does resplendent Helios look on this people with his beams, neither when he climbs towards the stars of heaven nor when once more he comes earthwards from the sky; dismal night overhands these wretches always."
Ho…

Bronze bust of Helios with a seven ray crown and long hair, wearing a chlamys cloak pinned over his right shoulder. Perhaps it is a portrait of Alexander the Great as Helios.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-08-24 10:27:43
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"And there grew up from the watery wave this island, and great Helios who begets the fierce rays of the sun, holds her in his dominion, that ruler of the horses breathing fire.
There long ago he lay with Rhodes and begot seve…

Photo of the head of a sculpture of Helios from his cult centre on the island of Rhodes. He has short, curly hair and seven spikes emerge from his head, as rays of sunlight.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-21 20:01:33
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"And he [Apollonius of Tyana] took up a handful of frankincense and said: ‘O thou Helios, send me as far over the earth as is my pleasure and thine, and may I make the acquaintance of good men, but never hear anything of bad ones,…

A marble altar dedicated to Sol and Domitian. Reliefs decorating the altar show the bust of Helios/Sol and a snake.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-10-19 10:10:43
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"Zeus then sent Hermes to Atreus and told him to get Thyestes to agree that Atreus should rule [Argos], if Helios (the Sun) should journey backwards. Thyestes agreed, and Helios put his setting where he usually rose."
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The sun-god Helios in a medieval illuminated manuscript holding a blue orb and riding a chariot drawn by four white horses.