Sol Invictus, unknown date

"He [Helios] placed the golden helmet [of the Sun] on Phaethon's head and crowned him with his own fire, winding the seven rays like strings upon his hair, and put the white kilt girdlewise round him over his loins; he clothed him in his own fiery robe and laced his foot into the purple boot, and gave his chariot to his son."

-Nonnus, Dionysiaca 38. 90 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.)



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https://prachtigepjotr.wordpress.com/tag/sacrale-koningschap/

https://blogs.sch.gr/12nipathin/#prettyPhoto[444]/4/

 

Quote:

https://www.theoi.com/Titan/Helios.html

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