HELIOS BY Destiny Jones HELIOSS BIRTH ORIGIN Helios

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 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/