Helios
Greek mythology · titan · the sun, all-seeing witness
The sun as a god, driving his four-horse chariot across the sky each day and seeing everything below, it is Helios who reports Persephone's abduction and the affair of Ares and Aphrodite. His cattle, eaten by Odysseus's crew, cost them their homecoming.
Stories
The Cattle of the Sun
Storm-bound on Thrinacia, Odysseus's starving crew defy every warning and slaughter the sacred cattle of Helios. The sun god demands justice, and Zeus answers: a thunderbolt shatters the ship, and every man but Odysseus goes down with it.
The Abduction of Persephone
Gathering flowers, Persephone is swallowed by the opening earth and carried to the underworld by Hades. Demeter's grief starves the world until Zeus relents; but Persephone has eaten pomegranate seeds below, and Hecate's torches light her yearly passage between the dead and the spring.