Helen

in Hades is married to Akhilleus (Achilles), another solar figure. Helené was a name for the moon, At Rhamnus she was worshiped as daughter of Nemesis (Fate; or dawn according to Kuhn): at Argos as deity of the temple of Ilithuia, presiding over child birth; and at Sparta in connection with a sacred tree. Helenos. A son of Priam and of the Phrygian Hekabé, called also Hellenos, and Skamandrios from the river Skamander. He, like his sister Kas sandra, was able to prophesy—a magic serpent having licked his ears as a babe. He was wounded by Menelaos, and retired to the shrine of Apollo on Mount Ida, refusing to fight after the murder of Hektor, whose widow Andromakhé he married. He ruled in Epeiros, where he entertained AZneas, and was buried in Argos. The legend is that of a sun oracle and priest. Heliadés. Descendants of Phaéton, or of Apollo, by Rhodé (“rose”), daughter of Poseiddn (that is of the sun, and the dawn rising from the deep). They were “seven bright ones ”—the seven planets. Hélios. Héelios. Greek: the “shining” sun god (see Heleios): he was the son of Huperion, the “rising” sun, and of Theia (“divine”), or Eur up ha a (‘far enlightening”), and he sails in a golden boat, or drives a golden car, in heaven. To him (in times of trouble) children were sacrificed, but usually white rams and white bulls, and especially —in later times—white cocks. He also walks the water, and is born of Léto (“darkne ”) in the island of Delos, his mother embracing the palm. Thétis gave him ambrosia to drink, and his golden locks were never shorn (see Hair). He guided the ark of Deukalion to Delphi, and his son Apollo was the first to spring ashore after the Flood. When his cattle were stolen (like those of Indra), he threatened Zeus that he would leave the heavens, and shine only on the dead in Hades. He had many loves among cloud maidens, and those of dawn and sunset, Hell. See Hel. Hellé. The “bright” daughter of Athamas (Tammuz) and Nephelé (‘‘ cloud”), sister of Phrixos (“the beaming”), with whom she was condemned to be a sacrifice, but fled with him on the magic ram of Hermes (“the wind”); recalling many stories given by Grimm from Teutonic folk-lore, where the sister and brother fly from the witch. Hellé fell from the ram, into the sea called after her the Helles-pont, or “sea of Hellé.” Phrixos reached Kolkhis, and sacrificed the golden ram to Zeus, while its skin—the golden fleece—was fastened to a sacred tree, in the grove of Ares the storm god. These myths belong to the uncertain April days. Hellén. Greek: “bright” or “fair”: the father of the fair Hellénik race, as distinguished from the Pelasgi who preceded them in Hellénik states. Hellén was the son of Deukalion and Purrha, and succeeded his father as king of Phthia in The aly. His son Aiolos (“the wind”) was borne by Orseis,a mountain nymph. Some called Hellén the son of Zeus and Dorippé, others of Pro me the us and Klumené, which makes him the brother of Deukalion. But the historic Hellénes included several Aryan tribes, in and round Attika, coming from the north, and first civilised by contact with Asia Minor (see Greeks). Henir. Hcenir. The second of the Skandinavian triad, with Odin and Lodur: these three were “air, water, and fire.” Henir was given as hostage to the Vanir, or water gods (see Vana), in exchange for Niord. 254