God · Greek

Helios

Helios, a god of the Greek world, and the gods ancient sources said were the same.

Tradition: greek

Documented identifications

LinkWho said soNote
identified as RaHerodotus, Histories 2.59, c. 430 BCEHerodotus counts the festival of the Sun at Heliopolis, the city of Ra, among the six great feasts of Egypt.
identified as MithraNemrut Dag monument of Antiochus I of Commagene, 62 BCEIn Hellenistic Asia Minor Mithra was merged with the sun as Apollo-Helios-Mithras-Hermes.

Sources

  1. Herodotus, Histories, Book II (tr. A. D. Godley, Wikisource)
  2. Mitra (Wikipedia)
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