It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! β˜€οΈ

"SΓ³l is the shield of the clouds
and shining ray
and destroyer of ice."
Icelandic rune poem

πŸ›οΈ Sunna aka SΓ³l in her Chariot, pyrography on pine by Debra Arnold, 2009
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! β˜€οΈ

"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 they had a station."
Poetic Edda, VΓΆluspΓ‘

πŸ›οΈ The Trundholm sun chariot from the Nordic Bronze Age (ca 1500-1300 BCE), depicting the Sun being drawn by a chariot, as described in #NorseMythology

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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! β˜€οΈ

"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, Theogony 371

πŸ›οΈ #Helios bronze bust

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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! β˜€οΈ

7 days after the #Solstice: the light is returning!

"He called to #Helios, reminding the chief of the stars of his love for Klymene, and prayed him to hold back his car & check the stalled horses with the heavenly bit, that he might prolong the sweet light, that he might go slow to his setting & with sparing whip increase the day to shine again."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 42.45

πŸ›οΈ #Fresco, #Pompeii

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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! β˜€οΈ

Happy #Solstice to all who celebrate!

It's Helios' shortest work day of the year, he is small and distant:

"At the winter solstice, the sun would seem to be a little child like that which the Egyptians bring forth from a shrine on the appointed day, since the day is then at its shortest and the god is accordingly shown as a tiny infant."
Macrobius, #Saturnalia

πŸ›οΈ #Helios figurine, Antalya Museum

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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! β˜€οΈ

"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 482 of Papyrus 574 of the Bibliotheque Nationale

πŸ›οΈ Sol Invictus and Mithras, White marble relief found at Fiano Romano, near Rome, dated 2nd-3rd century CE

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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! β˜€οΈ

"He [Sol] who moves the tepid day with gleaming chariot."
Ovid, Heroides 4. 159

πŸ›οΈ Helios driving His quadriga, Roman silver disc, 3rd century CE, found in Pessinus (Ballihisar) in #Turkey

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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! β˜€οΈ

"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."
Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 4.90

πŸ›οΈ Helios driving His quadriga, silver bowl, 3rd century CE, now in a private collection

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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! β˜€οΈ

"He shines upon men and deathless gods, and piercingly he gazes with his eyes from his golden helmet. Bright rays beam dazzlingly from him, and his bright locks streaming from the temples of his head gracefully enclose his far-seen face."
Homeric Hymn 31 to Helios

πŸ›οΈ Helios, Roman bronze applique, 2nd century CE

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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! β˜€οΈ

"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."
Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 5. 300

πŸ›οΈ Phaethon Sarcophagus, 3rd century CE, Verona, Museum-Lapidarium of Maffei

πŸ“Έ Ilya Shurygin

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