czwartek, 7 lutego 2013

Helios




                                       



































                                                           Dimensions height 58 cm
                                                                             width  20 cm
                                                                             depth  5  cm



"Helios was imagined as a handsome god crowned with the shining aureole of the Sun, who drove the chariot of the sun across the sky each day to earth-circling Oceanus and through the world-ocean returned to the East at night. Homer described Helios's chariot as drawn by solar steeds (Iliad xvi.779); later Pindar described it as drawn by "fire-darting steeds" (Olympian Ode 7.71). Still later, the horses were given fiery names: Pyrois, Aeos, Aethon, and Phlegon.


As time passed, Helios was increasingly identified with the god of light, Apollo. However, in spite of their syncretism, they were also often viewed as two distinct gods (Helios was a Titan, whereas Apollo was an Olympian). The equivalent of Helios in Roman mythology was Sol, specifically Sol Invictus.



Helios was sometimes characterized with the epithet Helios Panoptes ("the all-seeing"). In the story told in the hall of Alcinous in the Odyssey (viii.300ff), Aphrodite, the consort of Hephaestus, secretly beds Ares, but all-seeing Helios spies on them and tells Hephaestus, who ensnares the two lovers in nets invisibly fine, to punish them."





3 komentarze:

  1. ten Helios to taki troszkie do mnie podobny LOL
    tylko cycki mam mniejsze...

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  2. Niewszysko zloto cosie swieci gdyż Leon muwił hihi

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  3. Tak, podobieństwo jest :o
    i toż to szczere złoto :o

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