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Erotic Mythology 🏳️‍🌈<p>It's the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOfHelios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DayOfHelios</span></a> / Sol's Day / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sunday</span></a>! ☀️</p><p>"[<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Helios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Helios</span></a> the Sun] rides his chariot, 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."<br>Homeric Hymn 31</p><p>🏛️ Silver Kylix, 3rd century BCE, Pantikapaion</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>antiquidons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mythology</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mythology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Helios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Helios</span></a></p>
Erotic Mythology 🏳️‍🌈<p>It's the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOfHelios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DayOfHelios</span></a> / Sol's Day / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sunday</span></a>! ☀️</p><p>"All the Children of Helios (the Sun) were easy to recognise, even from a distance, by their flashing eyes, which shot out rays of golden light."<br>Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.726</p><p>🏛️ Gold stater of Tarentum with the head of Helios, struck under Alexander of Epiros, 334–330 BCE</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>antiquidons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mythology</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mythology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Helios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Helios</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/numismatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>numismatics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/coin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coin</span></a></p>
Erotic Mythology 🏳️‍🌈<p>It's the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOfHelios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DayOfHelios</span></a> / Sol's Day / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sunday</span></a>! ☀️</p><p>"The Corinthians say that Poseidon had a dispute with Helios (the Sun) about the land [of Korinthia], and that Briareos [one of the Hekatoncheires] arbitrated between them, assigning to Poseidon the Isthmos and the parts adjoining, and giving to Helios the height above the city." <br>Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.1.5</p><p>🏛️ Ceiling coffer, North Basilica of Ancient Corinth</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>antiquidons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mythology</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mythology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Helios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Helios</span></a></p>
Erotic Mythology 🏳️‍🌈<p>It's the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOfHelios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DayOfHelios</span></a> / Sol's Day / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sunday</span></a>! ☀️</p><p>"O Father Zeus, O blessed and immortal gods, take vengeance on the crew of Laertes' son Odysseus; in their lawlessness they have slain the cattle in which I always took delight, both as I climbed the starry sky and as I took my path again back down towards the earth. Unless these men pay a just atonement for my cattle, I will descend to Hades' kingdom and shine among the dead."<br>Homer, Odyssey 12.261</p><p>🏛️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Helios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Helios</span></a>, 150–190 CE</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>antiquidons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mythology</span></a></span></p>
Erotic Mythology 🏳️‍🌈<p>It's the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOfHelios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DayOfHelios</span></a> / Sol's Day / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sunday</span></a>! ☀️</p><p>"Against Phineus once on a time was the Titan Phaethon [Helios] angered, wroth for the victory of [Phineus] the prophet of Phoibos [Apollon], and robbed him of his sight and sent the shameless Harpies, a winged race to dwell with him to his sorrow."<br>Oppian, Cynegetica 2.615</p><p>🏛️ Helios bust, 2nd century CE, Ancient Agora Museum</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>antiquidons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mythology</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mythology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Helios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Helios</span></a></p>
Erotic Mythology 🏳️‍🌈<p>It's the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOfHelios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DayOfHelios</span></a> / Sol's Day / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sunday</span></a>! ☀️</p><p>"When Arge, a huntress, was pursuing a stag, she is said to have told it: ‘Though you equal the speed of the Sun (Sol), yet I will catch up with you.’ Sol, in anger, changed her into a doe."<br>Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 205</p><p>🏛️ Sol Invictus sarcophagus</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>antiquidons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mythology</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mythology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Helios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Helios</span></a></p>
Erotic Mythology 🏳️‍🌈<p>It's the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOfHelios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DayOfHelios</span></a> / Sol's Day / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sunday</span></a>! ☀️🌈 </p><p>Apollon and Helios are distinct deities but Apollon is a sun god too.</p><p>"He [Magnes of Thessalia] had a son of remarkable beauty, Hymenaios. And when <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Apollon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollon</span></a> saw the boy, he was seized with love for him, and would not leave the house of Magnes."<br>Hesiod, The Great Eoiae Fragment 16</p><p>🏛️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Apollo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollo</span></a> Belvedere replica</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>antiquidons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mythology</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mythology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PrideMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrideMonth</span></a></p>
Erotic Mythology 🏳️‍🌈<p>It's the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOfHelios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DayOfHelios</span></a> / Sol's Day / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sunday</span></a>! ☀️</p><p>Yesterday was the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SummerSolstice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SummerSolstice</span></a> here in Europe, marking Helios' longest work day.</p><p>"For Helios' lot is toil every day and there is never any respite for him and his horses, from the moment rose-fingered Eos leaves Okeanos and goes up into the sky."<br>Mimnermus, Fragment 12</p><p>🏛️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Helios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Helios</span></a>, 3rd century CE, Berlin Neues Museum<br><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/28433765@N07/7936659868/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">flickr.com/photos/28433765@N07</span><span class="invisible">/7936659868/</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>antiquidons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mythology</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mythology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreekRomanArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreekRomanArt</span></a></p>
Erotic Mythology 🏳️‍🌈<p>It's the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOfHelios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DayOfHelios</span></a> / Sol's Day / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sunday</span></a>! ☀️🌈 </p><p>"Having kissed <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Apollon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollon</span></a>, Branchos received a garland and a wand of laurel and began to prophesy."<br>Varro, Antiquitates rerum divinarum</p><p>🏛️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Apollo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollo</span></a> Bicon by Greta's Soul<br><a href="https://gretasartt.tumblr.com/post/185518481871" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gretasartt.tumblr.com/post/185</span><span class="invisible">518481871</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>antiquidons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mythology</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mythology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/indieArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indieArt</span></a></p>
Erotic Mythology 🏳️‍🌈<p>It's the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOfHelios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DayOfHelios</span></a> / Sol's Day / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sunday</span></a>! ☀️🌈 </p><p>"Hyakinthos was loved by Apollon, who accidentally killed him while hurling a discus."<br>Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca</p><p>🎨 Apollon and Hyakinthos by Gretassoul</p><p><a href="https://gretasartt.tumblr.com/post/185611027981/can-you-draw-apollo-and-hyacinthus-kissing-with" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gretasartt.tumblr.com/post/185</span><span class="invisible">611027981/can-you-draw-apollo-and-hyacinthus-kissing-with</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>antiquidons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mythology</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mythology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/indieArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indieArt</span></a></p>
Erotic Mythology 🏳️‍🌈<p>It's the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOfHelios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DayOfHelios</span></a> / Sol's Day / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sunday</span></a>! ☀️🌈 </p><p>"Poseidon and Helios might be said to be rivals. [...] And it may be that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Helios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Helios</span></a> was vexed at the boy [<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nerites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nerites</span></a>] travelling about in the sea and wished that he should travel among the constellations instead."<br>Aelian, On Animals 14.28</p><p>🏛️ Helios and Nerites as drawn by my amazing illustrator Sinita</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>antiquidons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mythology</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mythology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/indieArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indieArt</span></a></p>
Erotic Mythology 🏳️‍🌈<p>It's the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOfHelios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DayOfHelios</span></a> / Sol's Day / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sunday</span></a>! ☀️</p><p>"Stesichorus says that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Helios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Helios</span></a> (the Sun) sailed across Okeanos in a cup and that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Herakles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Herakles</span></a> also crosssed over in it when travelling to get Geryon's cattle."<br>Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S17</p><p>🏛️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Red" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Red</span></a>-figure vase painting of Herakles on the sea in the golden cup of Helios</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>antiquidons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mythology</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreekRomanArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreekRomanArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mythology</span></a></p>
Erotic Mythology 🏳️‍🌈<p>It's the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOfHelios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DayOfHelios</span></a> / Sol's Day / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sunday</span></a>! ☀️</p><p>"The water bride-groom [<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Okeanos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Okeanos</span></a>] begat <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Klymene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Klymene</span></a>, fairest of the Naiads, whom <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tethys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tethys</span></a> nursed on her wet breast, her youngest, a maiden with lovely arms. For her beauty Helios pined, who travels the sevenzone circuit [the zodiac] garland-wise. Helios dispenser of fire was afflicted with another fire!"<br>Nonnus, Dionysiaca 38.108</p><p>🏛️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Helios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Helios</span></a>-Sol, Roman bronze lamp, 400 CE</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>antiquidons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mythology</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreekRomanArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreekRomanArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mythology</span></a></p>
Erotic Mythology 🏳️‍🌈<p>It's the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOfHelios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DayOfHelios</span></a> / Sol's Day / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sunday</span></a>! ☀️</p><p>"When Helios made him [Herakles] hot as he proceeded, he aimed his bow at the god and stretched it. Helios was so surprised at his daring that he gave him a golden goblet, in which he crossed Okeanos."<br>Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.107</p><p>🏛️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Helios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Helios</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Herakles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Herakles</span></a>, Attic black-figure skyphos, ca 500 BCE:<br><a href="https://www.theoi.com/Gallery/T17.4.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">theoi.com/Gallery/T17.4.html</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>antiquidons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mythology</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreekRomanArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreekRomanArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mythology</span></a></p>
Erotic Mythology 🏳️‍🌈<p>It's the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOfHelios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DayOfHelios</span></a> / Sol's Day / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sunday</span></a>! ☀️</p><p>"And now the shining light of Helios was dipped in Okeanos, trailing black night (Nyx) across the grain-giving land."<br>Homer, Iliad 8.485</p><p>🏛️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Helios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Helios</span></a> in his chariot, red-figure vase painting</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>antiquidons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mythology</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreekRomanArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreekRomanArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mythology</span></a></p>
Erotic Mythology 🏳️‍🌈<p>It's the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOfHelios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DayOfHelios</span></a> / Sol's Day / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sunday</span></a>! ☀️</p><p>"Now Helios (the Sun) of a new day struck on the ploughlands, rising out of the quiet water and the deep stream of Okeanos to climb the sky."<br>Homer, Iliad 7.422</p><p>🏛️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Helios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Helios</span></a> rising votive marble relief, 2nd century CE</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>antiquidons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mythology</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreekRomanArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreekRomanArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mythology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Helios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Helios</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ReliefWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReliefWednesday</span></a></p>
Erotic Mythology 🏳️‍🌈<p>It's the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOfHelios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DayOfHelios</span></a> / Sol's Day / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sunday</span></a>! ☀️</p><p>"Helios, Helios, why have you forsaken me?"<br>VL 1: Codex Bobiensis, Gospel of Mark 15:34</p><p>🏛️ Christ-Helios <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mosaic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mosaic</span></a>, 4th century CE, Saint Peter Necropolis, Vatican</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>antiquidons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mythology</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreekRomanArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreekRomanArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mythology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Helios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Helios</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MosaicMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MosaicMonday</span></a></p>
Erotic Mythology 🏳️‍🌈<p>It's the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOfHelios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DayOfHelios</span></a> / Sol's Day / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sunday</span></a>! ☀️</p><p>"Jupiter seeing that he [Erikhthonios] first among men yoked horses in four-horse chariots, admired the genius of a man who could rival the invention of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sol</span></a> (the Sun), who first among the gods made use of the quadriga."<br>Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.13</p><p>🏛️ Quadriga of the Sun, 6th century BCE, Temple C, Selunte, Magna Graecia</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>antiquidons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mythology</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreekRomanArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreekRomanArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mythology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Helios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Helios</span></a></p>
Erotic Mythology 🏳️‍🌈<p>It's the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOfHelios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DayOfHelios</span></a> / Sol's Day / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sunday</span></a>! ☀️</p><p>"Phoibos [Helios the Sun], who, from the summit of his chariot, sets the world aflame with his dazzling rays, Phoibos, a mighty deity amongst the gods and adored amongst mortals."<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Aristophanes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aristophanes</span></a>, Birds 563</p><p>🏛️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Helios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Helios</span></a>-Sol as Sunday with aureola, mosaic, 3rd century CE, Villa Orbe-Boscéaz, Suisse</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>antiquidons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mythology</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreekRomanArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreekRomanArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mythology</span></a></p>
Erotic Mythology 🏳️‍🌈<p>It's the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOfHelios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DayOfHelios</span></a> / Sol's Day / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sunday</span></a>! ☀️</p><p>"When Arge, a huntress, was pursuing a stag, she is said to have told it: ‘Though you equal the speed of the Sun [Sol], yet I will catch up with you.’ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sol</span></a>, in anger, changed her into a doe."<br>Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 205</p><p>🏛️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Helios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Helios</span></a>, Greek vase painting, British Museum</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>antiquidons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mythology</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreekRomanArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreekRomanArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mythology</span></a></p>
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