During the battle with Persephone, Helios was held in Atlas' hand, forming of an orb of light. Helios was taken to the Underworld, where Atlas tried to use his power to destroy the Pillar of the World-and with it, the rest of the world and Mount Olympus (the home of the Olympian Gods).īefore this plan could be fully achieved, Helios was saved by Kratos, who defeated Persephone and chained Atlas to the world in the Pillar's place. His disappearance allowed Morpheus, the God of Dreams, who had been alerted of Persephone's plan, to take over the mortal realm and cast the Gods into a deep slumber. Helios was kidnapped by the mighty Titan by orders of the goddess Persephone, who felt betrayed by the Gods for being forced to stay with her husband Hades, God of the Underworld, six months out of every year. Although endowed with powers similar to Helios' own, his champion was killed in battle by Kratos. Helios appeared in the gods' wager, with a champion of his own. In Atlas' flashback of the Great War of the Gods and the Titans, Helios can be seen fighting alongside Hermes against the Titans.
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Helios' mythological Roman equivalent is Sol.Ġ8 March 2010 In the God of War Series The First Titanomachy Still later, the horses were given fiery names: Pyrois, Aeos, Aethon, and Phlegon.Īlthough born a Titan, Helios is never depicted in the gigantic form of his parents.Īs time passed, Helios was increasingly identified with the God of Light, Apollo, but the two remained separate beings. Homer described Helios's chariot as drawn by his Fire Steeds. Helios was imagined as a handsome God crowned with the shining aureole of the sun, who drove the Sun Chariot across the sky each day to earth-circling Oceanus and through the world-ocean returned to the East at night.
The names of these three were also the common Greek words for Sun, Dawn and Moon. He was a son of the Titan Hyperion and Theia, brother of the Goddesses Selene, the Moon, and Eos, the Dawn and the father of Circe, goddess of magic. Helios was the All-Seeing God of the sun and was called upon witness when needed by the Gods. In Greek mythology, the Sun was personified as Helios.
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