〈—〉 pꜣ-rꜥ ‘Sun’
〈d.UTU〉 Šamaš ‘Sun’
〈sol〉 ‘sun’
〈phoebus〉 ‘Sun’
〈Σαώς〉 Saōs ‘Sun’
〈Ἀβέλιος〉 Abelios ‘Sun’
〈שֶׁמֶשׁ〉 šemeš ‘Sun’
〈ἡλιακός〉 hēliakos ‘solar’
〈τοῦ ἡλίου ἔκλειψις〉 tou hēliou ekleipsis ‘solar eclipse’
Ἥλιος
Hēlios
Greek noun
Last edited: 2025-02-03| Primary meaning | Sun |
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| Literal translation | Sun |
| Variants | Ἥλιος Hēlios Ἠέλιος Ēelios Homeric Ἀέλιος Aelios Doric Ἅλιος Halios Doric ἥλις Hēlis papyri |
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Sun luminary, planet, deity
Ἥλιος, Ἀφροδίτη Ὑδροχόῳ, Σελήνη, Ζεὺς Τοξότῃ, Κρόνος Λέοντι, Ἑρμῆς Αἰγοκέρωτι, Ἄρης, ὡροσκόπος Ζυγῷ.
‘The Sun, Venus (were) in Aquarius; the Moon, Jupiter in Sagittarius; Saturn in Leo; Mercury in Capricorn; Mars, the Ascendant in Libra.’
Ἐν μὲν γαῖαν ἔτευξ’, ἐν δ’ οὐρανόν, ἐν δὲ θάλασσαν, ἠέλιόν τ’ ἀκάμαντα σελήνην τε πλήθουσαν, ἐν δὲ τὰ τείρεα πάντα, τά τ’ οὐρανὸς ἐστεφάνωται, Πληϊάδας θ’ Ὑάδας τε τό τε σθένος Ὠρίωνος Ἄρκτόν θ’, ἣν καὶ Ἄμαξαν ἐπίκλησιν καλέουσιν, ἥ τ’ αὐτοῦ στρέφεται καί τ’ Ὠρίωνα δοκεύει, οἴη δ’ ἄμμορός ἐστι λοετρῶν Ὠκεανοῖο.
‘On it he produced the earth, and on it the sky, and on it the sea, and the untiring sun and the full moon, and on it all the constellations, that the sky is wreathed with: the Pleiades as well as the Hyades as well as the might of Orion as well as the Bear, which they call Wagon as additional name, and which revolves around itself and keeps an eye on Orion, and which alone is without share of baths in Ocean.’
APA (7th)
Peeters, T., & Zellmann-Rohrer, M. (2025). Ἥλιος (Lemma #534). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/534/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Peeters, T., & Zellmann-Rohrer, M. (2025). Ἥλιος (Lemma #534). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/534/
MLA (9th)
Peeters, T., & Zellmann-Rohrer, M. (2025). Ἥλιος (Lemma #534). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/534/
Harvard
Peeters, T. and Zellmann-Rohrer, M. (2025) Ἥλιος (Lemma #534), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/534/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX
@misc{zodiac534,
note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
author = {Peeters, Thomas and Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael},
year = {2025},
title = {Ἥλιος ({Lemma} #534)},
url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/534/},
howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/534/},
}