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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2026-01-11 11:17:21
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"The sun from the south, the moon's companion,
her right hand cast about the heavenly horses.
The sun knew not where she a dwelling had,
the moon knew not what power he possessed,
the stars knew not where t…

A photograph of the Trundholm Sun Chariot, a Nordic Bronze Age artifact discovered in Denmark. It is a depiction of the sun chariot, a bronze statue of a horse and a large golden bronze disk, both of which are placed on a device with spoked wheels.
@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
2026-01-04 10:31:04
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"And Theia was subject in love to Hyperion and bare great Helios (Sun) and clear Selene (Moon) and Eos (Dawn) who shine upon all that are on earth and upon the deathless Gods who live in the wide heaven."
Hesiod, Theogon…

Black-and-white photograph of a bronze bust of Helios. The sun god is wearing a seven-spiked sunray crown on his head and a cloak around his neck.
@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
2025-11-30 11:13:19
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"He [Sol] who moves the tepid day with gleaming chariot."
Ovid, Heroides 4. 159
🏛️ Helios driving His quadriga, Roman silver disc, 3rd century CE, found in Pessinus (Ballihisar) in

Silver leaf disc dedicated to the sun-god Sol. Sol is crowned with rays, and two horses appear behind his shoulders.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-12-28 10:26:47
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
7 days after the #Solstice: the light is returning!
"He called to

Fresco of Helios, seated, with a spiked aureola around his head. He wears a red himation draped over both arms and holds a shepherd's crook in his left. A goddess stands behind him.
@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
2025-12-21 10:23:36
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
Happy #Solstice to all who celebrate!
It's Helios' shortest work day of the year, he is small and distant:
"At …

Terracotta figurine of Helios in the nude. The god is seated, his arms outstretched. The iconic seven-spiked sunray crown identifies him as the sun god.
@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."
Ps…

The sun-god Helios in a medieval illuminated manuscript holding a blue orb and riding a chariot drawn by four white horses.
@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
2025-12-14 10:19:34
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"O daughter, to take the juices of herbs and spices, which the great god Helios Mithras ordered to be revealed to me by his archangel, so that I alone may ascend into heaven as an inquirer and behold the universe."
Line …

This (reverse) face of the monument depicts a banquet scene. In the middle, a bull's hide, of which the head and one hindleg are visible. Sol and Mithras recline on it side by side. Mithras holds a torch in his left hand and extends his right hand behind Sol. Sol is dressed only in a cape, fastened on his right shoulder with a fibula. Around Sol's head is a crown of eleven rays. He holds a whip in his left hand and extends the right towards a torchbearer who offers him a rhyton. In the lower ri…