Greek mythology
Helios
The Titan who drives the sun across the sky
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- Greek mythology
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- Divine · Primordials · Sky
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- Phaethon and the Sun Chariot · Demeter and Persephone
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Helios is the blazing sun made flesh, who rises each dawn from the eastern ocean and drives his four fiery horses across the heavens, seeing all that gods and mortals do. It is he who tells Demeter of Persephone's abduction and exposes the affair of Ares and Aphrodite. When his reckless son Phaethon begs to drive the chariot, the boy's fall scorches the earth.
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Phaethon and the Sun Chariot
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- Who is Helios?
- Helios is the blazing sun made flesh, who rises each dawn from the eastern ocean and drives his four fiery horses across the heavens, seeing all that gods and mortals do. It is he who tells Demeter of Persephone's abduction and exposes the affair of Ares and Aphrodite.
- Which mythology does Helios belong to?
- Helios belongs to Greek mythology.
- Which stories does Helios appear in?
- Helios appears in Phaethon and the Sun Chariot, Demeter and Persephone, told as chaptered audio dramas in MythologyNow.
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