Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Helios (disambiguation)


Related Topics

In the News (Thu 17 Dec 09)

  
 US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : Helios
Helios was imagined as a handsome god crowned with the shining aureole of the sun, who drove a chariot across the sky.
The best known story involving Helios is that of his son Phaeton, who attempted to drive his father's chariot but lost control and set the earth on fire.
By the Oceanid Perse Helios became the father of Aeëtes, Circe, and Pasiphae.
encyclopedia.us-bazaar.com /?title=Helios   (1142 words)

  
 Helios - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In earlier Greek mythology, the sun was personified as a deity called Hêlios (Greek for "the sun"), whom Homer equates with the sun titan Hyperion.
Helios was seen driving a fiery chariot across the sky.
The equivalent of Helios in Roman mythology is Sol.
88.208.194.172 /wiki/index.php/Helios   (567 words)

  
 Qwika - Apollo
In later times, Apollo became partly confused or equated with Helios, god of the sun, and his sister similarly equated with Selene, god of the moon, particularly in religious contexts.
In the late 2nd century floor mosaic from El Djem, Roman Thysdrus, (illustration, right), he is identifiable as Apollo Helios by his effulgent halo, though now even a god's divine nakedness is concealed by his cloak, a mark of increasing conventions of modesty in the later Empire.
Anther haloed Apollo in mosaic, from Hadrumentum, is in the museum at Sousse [1].The conventions of this representation, head tilted, lips slightly parted, large-eyed, curling hair cut in locks grazing the neck, were developed in the 3rd century BCE to depict Alexander the Great (Bieber 1964, Yalouris 1980).
wikipedia.qwika.com /wiki/Apollo   (3679 words)

  
 Helios information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
In earlier Greek mythology, the sun was personified as a deity called Hêlios (Greek for "the sun"), whom Homer equates with the sun-titan Hyperion.
The solar roles of Helios were assumed by Apollo, who eclipsed Helios as Artemis eclipsed lunar Selene.
Helios, however, had to appeal to Zeus, who destroyed the ship and all the men save Odysseus.
domainhelp.search.com /reference/Helios   (1001 words)

  
 Apollo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
As the patron of Delphi ("Pythian Apollo") Apollo was an oracular god; in Classical times he took the place of Helios as god of the sun.
In Hellenistic times, Apollo became conflated with Helios, god of the sun, and his sister similarly equated with Selene, goddess of the moon.
In the late second century CE floor mosaic from El Djem, Roman Thysdrus, (illustration, right), he is identifiable as Apollo Helios by his effulgent halo, though now even a god's divine nakedness is concealed by his cloak, a mark of increasing conventions of modesty in the later Empire.
www.infoforyou.org /input.php?title=Apollo   (5073 words)

  
 Hotel Helios
For other uses of Helios, see Helios (disambiguation).'' ---- In earlier Greek mythology, the sun was personified as a deity called Hêlios (Greek for "the sun"), whom Homer equates with the sun titan Hyperion.
HeliOS was a Unix-like Operating system built by some of the team who had worked on AmigaOS and TRIPOS.
Processes were supported by the hardware and could be created on any processor, and HeliOS provided inter-process communication that worked no matter what the topography of the parallel array (transputers had four communications each).
www.artistbooking.com /trips/92/hotel-helios.html   (1283 words)

  
 Eos:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Eos ("dawn") was, in Greek mythology, the Titan goddess of the dawn, who rose from her home at the edge of Oceanus, the Ocean that surrounds the world, to herald her brother Helios, the sun.
In Homer (Iliad viii.1; xxiv.695), her yellow robe is embroidered or woven with flowers (Odyssey vi:48 etc); rosy-fingered and with golden arms, she is pictured on Attic vases as a supernaturally beautiful woman, crowned with a tiara or diadem and with the large white-feathered wings of a bird.
Eos was the daughter of Hyperion and Theia (or Pallas and Styx) and sister of Helios the sun and Selene the moon, "who shine upon all that are on earth and upon the deathless Gods who live in the wide heaven" Hesiod told in Theogony (371-374).
winelib.com /wiki/Eos   (736 words)

  
 ares - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
For other possible meanings of the name Ares, see Ares (disambiguation).
One night, while having sex with Aphrodite, Ares put a youth named Alectryon by his door to guard them.
He fell asleep and Helios, the sun, walked in on the couple.
www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Ares   (439 words)

  
 Sun Biography,info
For teaching this heresy, he was imprisoned by the authorities and sentenced to death (though later released through the intervention of Pericles).
In the 1970s, Helios 1 and the Skylab Apollo Telescope Mount provided scientists with significant new data on solar wind and the solar corona.
The title Sol Invictus ("the undefeated Sun") was applied to several solar deities, and depicted on several types of Roman coins during the 3rd and 4th centuries.
www.parsnava.com /biography/sdmc_Sun   (7249 words)

  
 Sun
During early studies of the optical spectrum of the photosphere, some absorption lines were found that did not correspond to any chemical elements then known on Earth.
With respect to the fixed stars, the Sun appears from Earth to revolve once a year along the ecliptic through the zodiac, and so the Sun was considered by Greek astronomers to be one of the seven planets (Greek planetes, "wanderer"), after which the seven days of the week are named in some languages.
The Skylab space station, launched by NASA in 1973, included a solar observatory module called the Apollo Telescope Mount that was operated by astronauts resident on the station.
www.homestayfinder.com /Dictionary.aspx?q=sun   (6497 words)

  
 Styx (mythology) - Databank
Zeus swore to give Semele whatever she wanted and was then obliged to follow through, resulting in her death.
Helios similarly promised Phaëton whatever he desired, also resulting in his death.
Gods that did not follow through on such an oath had to drink from the river, causing them to lose their voices for nine years.
www.notd-aftermath.com /databank/index.php?title=Styx_(mythology)   (724 words)

  
 More info on - Greek God Helios
Earlier this week it was launched from the Plesetsk space centre in northern Russia.
HOUSTON----Fairfield Industries Inc. announced today that BP has awarded its 2006 Global Helios Partnership Award to the Atlantis OBS Node Project, for which Fairfield was the prime contractor.
Now you can see what everyone else is searching for in regards to Helios.
www.thefiveminuteguide.com /He-to-Ho/Helios.php   (759 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Apollo
Apollo ("destroy" or "excite"), is a god in Greek and Roman mythology, the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin of Artemis (goddess of the hunt).
In later times he became equated with Helios, god of the sun, and by proxy his sister was equated with Selene, goddess of the moon.
Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Apollo   (2363 words)

  
 Apollo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Apollo is a god in Greek and Roman mythology, the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin of Artemis (goddess of the hunt).
In later times he became in part confused or equated with Helios, god of the sun, and his sister similarly equated with Selene, goddess of the moon in religious contexts.
But Apollo and Helios/Sol remained quite separate beings in literary/mythological texts.
wapipedia.org /wikipedia/mobiletopic.aspx?cur_title=Apollo   (2385 words)

  
 Titans 2 - Minor Greek Gods - Crystalinks
An Oceanid, mother of Phaethon by Helios, sometimes as a full wife and mother also of the Heliades (essentially equated with Rhode) and sometimes as wife of Merops with whom Helios secretly lay.
In later Greek literature Hyperion is always distinguished from Helios as a Titan, the son of Gaia 'Goddess Earth' and Uranus 'God Sky', and the father of Helios 'God Sun', Selene 'Goddess Moon' and Eos 'Goddess Dawn' by his sister Theia 'Goddess Sight'.
He climbed Olympus and stole fire from the chariot of Helios (or, in later mythology, Apollo).
www.crystalinks.com /titans2.html   (2352 words)

  
 Helios 1B - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Due to power failures, it had to be left to disintegrate in 2005.
It has been replaced by Helios 2A launched on December 2004 on an Ariane 5 rocket.
The name Hélios has also been used for other spacecraft - see Helios (disambiguation).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Helios_1B   (101 words)

  
 Helios (disambiguation)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
For the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) see Helios (vehicle).
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page.
publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/h/he/helios__disambiguation_.html   (73 words)

  
 Artemis
Early in her development, she was identified with Hecate, the primal, pre-Olympian feral goddess.
She later became more identified with and eventually supplanted Selene as the moon goddess to complement her twin's identification with and supplantation of Helios as the sun god.
Her priestesses were addressed with the title Melissa.
www.knowledgefun.com /book/a/ar/artemis.html   (1472 words)

  
 Helen
For other uses of Helen, see Helen (disambiguation)
The name is maybe related to the Moon (Selene) and the Sun (Helios).
Wife of Menelaus and reputed to be the most beautiful woman in the world, whose abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War Helen was believed to be initially the chief mother-goddess worshipped through the area, until the arrival of the Dodecatheon.
encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/h/he/helen.html   (1386 words)

  
 Portable Game Notation (PGN): Specification
Note that the above disambiguation is needed only to distinguish among moves of the same piece type to the same square; it is not used to distinguish among attacks of the same piece type to the same square.
An example of this would be a position with two white knights, one on square c3 and one on square g1 and a vacant square e2 with White to move.
However, if the white king were at square e1 and a fl bishop were at square b4 with a vacant square d2 (thus an absolute pin of the white knight at square c3), then only one white knight (the one at square g1) could move to square e2: "Ne2".
www.very-best.de /pgn-spec.htm   (16333 words)

  
 Helios
Many believe that Apollo becomes the Olympian "sun god", but this idea is mostly based on speculation and assumption.
You will now come to the Thrinacian island, and here you will see many herds of cattle and flocks of sheep belonging to the sun-god- seven herds of cattle and seven flocks of sheep, with fifty head in each flock.
says, Destroyer, Helios, role, greatest, designated, navigation, name, earliest, destroyed
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/h/he/helios.html   (909 words)

  
 helios
...swinoujscie HELIOS - kofortowy osrodek wypoczynkowy miasto swinoujscie 0048 91 3224884...
Helios photos at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California Dryden Home > Collections > Photo Home > Helios HeliosHelios Prototype solar-electric flying wingone of several remotely
This training class is intendedanyonecurrently is using Helios or is thinking about using Helios where: Indianapolis Headquarters time: 95 PMTanning World Expo 2005 10.10.05 Helios,...
www.polskastrefa.eu /szukaj.html?q=helios   (151 words)

  
 Sun
In many prehistoric and ancient cultures, the Sun was thought to be a deity or other supernatural phenomenon.
One of the first people in the Western world to offer a scientific explanation for the sun was the Greek philosopher Anaxagoras, who reasoned that it was a giant flaming ball of metal even larger than the Peleponessus, and not the chariot of Helios.
See also astronomical objects and the solar system's list of objects, sorted by radius or mass.
www.reboom.com /article/Sun.html   (4027 words)

  
 •• Apollo ••
In that case, non of the article "deserves" to be here, and we need parens to disambiguate the god as well.
BTW, finding natural disambiguators shouldn't cloud judgement -- the previous decision on what to do with this page was made before the idea of disambiguation blocks was developed.
Now this page can be both and article ''and'' a disambiguation page (the planets are really the only poster children of full disambiguation -- there is no way to naturally disambiguate the gods from the planets and this results in Mars being a full disambiguation page).
www.eoob.se /resor/apollo.html   (1307 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.