It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

Bronze head of the Sun God #Helios, with a stylised radiate crown and uraeus. The rays of the crown are like a cap of leaves.

🎨 Bronze head broken off a statuette, perhaps from Syria. Dated 2nd–3rd century CE. Today at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

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It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

Boreas and Helios had a contest: whoever could strip a traveller of his clothes would win.
"Boreas blew with all his might, but the traveller only wrapped his cloak around him more tightly. Helios shone with all his warmth. The traveller took off one garment after another, and at last bathed in a stream naked."
Aesop, Fables

🎨 #Helios mosaic, Archaeological Museum of Sparta

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It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

But if one may guess where there is nothing to go by, #Poseidon 6 Helios might have been rivals. And maybe #Helios was vexed at the boy travelling about in the sea and wished that he should travel among the constellations instead.
Aelian, On Animals 14. 28

🎨 Helios & #Nerites by Sinita for the story "Milk Sea", a retelling of Aelian's fable:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/49259686

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