A dedicatory inscription from Smyrna describes a 1st – 2nd century sanctuary to " God Himself " as the most exalted of a group of six deities, including clothed statues of Plouton Helios and Koure Selene, " Pluto the Sun " and " Kore the Moon.

Apuleius describes a rite in which the sun appears at midnight to the initiate at the gates of Proserpina ; it has been suggested that this midnight sun could be Plouton Helios.

Plouton is lord of the dead, but as Persephone's husband he has serious claims to the powers of fertility.

In the original myth which is an etiology for the ancient rites, Eubuleus was a swineherd who was feeding his pigs at the opening to the underworld when Persephone was abducted by Plouton.

His relation to the classical ruler of the underworld Plouton ( Latin Pluto ), with whom he is often conflated, is complex, as Pluto was also a god of riches.

Saturn's chthonic nature connected him to the underworld and its ruler Dis Pater, the Roman equivalent of Greek Plouton ( Pluto in Latin ) who was also a god of hidden wealth.

Eubuleus was feeding his pigs at the opening to the underworld when Persephone was abducted by Plouton.

and " the God and the Goddess " ( Persephone and Plouton ) accompanied by Eubuleus who probably led the way back from the underworld.

In the late 2nd century CE floor mosaic from El Djem, Roman Thysdrus, he is identifiable as Apollo Helios by his effulgent halo, though now even a god's divine nakedness is concealed by his cloak, a mark of increasing conventions of modesty in the later Empire.

Abraxas is an important figure in Carl Jung's 1916 book Seven Sermons to the Dead, a representation of the driving force of individuation ( synthesis, maturity, oneness ), referred with the figures for the driving forces of differentiation ( emergence of consciousness and opposites ), Helios God-the-Sun, and the Devil.

It is said that he wished to be worshipped as Neos Helios, the New Sun.

Eos is the daughter of Hyperion and Theia and sister of Helios the sun and Selene the moon, " who shine upon all that are on earth and upon the deathless gods who live in the wide heaven.

Her twin brother Helios is the sun god.

Helium is named for the Greek God of the Sun, Helios.

In Greek the sun god is Helios, hence Heliogabalus, another variant name for Elagabalus.

On his voyage to the underworld, Odysseus follows instructions given to him by Circe, a goddess who is the daughter of the sun-god Helios.

In Germanic mythology this is Sol, in Vedic Surya, and in Greek Helios ( occasionally referred to as Titan ) and ( sometimes ) as Apollo.

The Colossus of Rhodes is a giant statue of the Greek god Helios.

The fate of Alexander Helios is unknown.

It is highly likely that both Alexander Helios and Ptolemy Philadelphus died from illness, although it is unknown whether they died before their sister married or after.

Alexander Helios is a main character in the book Cleopatra's Daughter, by Michelle Moran, which is about his twin sister Cleopatra Selene.

In Cleopatra's Moon, by Vicky Alvear Shecter, Alexander Helios is also mentioned, along with Ptolemy Philadelphos and Cleopatra Selene, the main character of the book.

It is possible that the name Asia became preferred over Hesiod's Clymene to avoid confusion with the Clymene who was mother of Phaethon by Helios in some accounts and must have been perceived as a distinct figure.

Although not mentioned in Homer's Epic, Achaemenides is significant ; his stranding and subsequent rescue by Aeneas ' fleet make him the only known member of Odysseus ' crew to survive the return journey to Ithaca ( as every ship besides the flagship was destroyed by the Laestrygonian giants, and those besides Odysseus on the last ship were drowned after his men devoured Helios ' sacred cattle ).

In a variant genealogy, he is the father of the children of the Oceanid Merope ( usually said to be the offspring of Helios and Clymene ).

A figure called Aethra ( possibly the Oceanid ) is, in one source, called the wife of Hyperion, rather than Theia, and mother of Helios, Eos, and Selene.

It is speculated by some that she was possibly a goddess of the morning, or of man's waking sense, which causes him to wake up in the morning ; the Doric form of her name is akin to the Greek word for " rooster " ( Alectrona, the feminine genitive of Αλεκτορ, Alektor, the Greek word for " rooster "), while the Greek form Electryone is akin to the word for " amber " ( Ἠλέκτρα, Elektra ), as in the amber color of sunrise ( as opposed to sunset, implied by Helios being her father ); naturally, either of which would be an appropriate name for a solar goddess.

Robert Graves also relates that later Theia is referred to as the cow-eyed Euryphaessa who gave birth to Helios in myths dating to Classical Antiquity.

Such songs were originally addressed to Apollo, and afterwards to other gods: to Dionysus, to Apollo Helios, to Apollo's son Asclepius the healer.

" Reynolds quotes Helios Creed, who identifies The Residents as a keyboardist named " H ", a singer named Homer, and " this other guy called John "; and Peter Principle of Tuxedomoon, who claims that " we eventually figured out that the guy doing the graphics and the engineer in the studio were in fact the Residents.

Helios blamed Zeus for killing his son, but Zeus told him there was no other way.

Hebe, Helios, Eros, Selene and Persephone are other important gods and goddesses who are sometimes included in a group of twelve.

The central ceiling fresco is Helios in his chariot, accompanied by other gods.

This culminates in a passage bringing together Laurence Binyon's dictum slowness is beauty, the San Ku, or three sages, figures from the Chou King who are responsible for the balance between heaven and earth, Jacques de Molay, the golden section, a room in the church of St. Hilaire, Poitiers built to that rule where one can stand without throwing a shadow, Mencius on natural phenomena, the 17th-century English mystic John Heydon ( who Pound remembered from his days working with Yeats ) and other images relating to the worship of light including "' MontSegur, sacred to Helios ".

Website at zenitcamera. com shows cameras and lenses which bear the Zenit, Helios and Horizon logos despite being produced by other factories.

Helios experimented with grafting cockroach and feline DNA onto the basic New Race genome, intending to build Werner's physical resilience and various other ' improvements '.

Apollo and Helios / Sol remained separate beings in literary and mythological texts until the 3rd century CE.

The chief surviving sources are his works To King Helios and To the Mother of the Gods, which were written as panegyrics, not theological treatises.

The sources also do not mention when Alexander Helios and Ptolemy Philadelphus died.

In Hellenistic times, especially during the 3rd century BCE, as Apollo Helios he became identified among Greeks with Helios, Titan god of the sun, and his sister Artemis similarly equated with Selene, Titan goddess of the moon.

* 2005 – Helios Airways Flight 522 en route from Larnaca, Cyprus via Athens, Greece to Prague, Czech Republic crashes near Athens, with at least 121 on board.

Then it passed through the oval Forum of Constantine where there was a second Senate-house and a high column with a statue of Constantine himself in the guise of Helios, crowned with a halo of seven rays and looking toward the rising sun.

He observes that " Mithras — moreover, a Mithras who was identified with the Greek Sun god Helios " was among the gods of the syncretic Graeco-Armenian-Iranian royal cult at Nemrut founded by Antiochus I of Commagene in the mid 1st century BC.

They are also identified with the traditional Greek gods, so one henad might be Apollo and be the cause of all things apollonian, while another might be Helios and be the cause of all sunny things.

She was the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children, Mermeros and Pheres.

* Mark Antony annexed the kingdom of Media and arranged the marriage of his son Alexander Helios with princess Iotapa, the daughter of king Artavasdes I.

She had placed their son Florado Helios Muybridge ( nicknamed " Floddie " by friends ) with a French couple.

Helios and Phaeton with Saturn and the Four Seasons ( c. 1635 )

According to later traditions, Acheron had been a son of Helios and either Gaia or Demeter, who had been turned into the Underworld river bearing his name after he refreshed the Titans with drink during their contest with Zeus.

The resistant Cephalus and Eos became lovers, and she bore him a son named Phaëthon ( not to be confused with the son of the sun-god Helios ).

Helios made the island rise from the sea and with Rhode, fathered seven sons there, the Heliadae: Ochimus, Cercaphus, Macareus, Actis, Tenages, Triopas, and Candalus ) and one daughter, Electryone.

Once paired in later myths with her Titan brother Hyperion as her husband, " mild-eyed Euryphaessa, the far-shining one " of the Homeric Hymn to Helios, was said to be the mother of Helios ( the Sun ), Selene ( the Moon ), and Eos ( the Dawn ).

Helios was designed to reach 100, 000 feet for ten hours with a payload of instruments.