Re: [tied] Helios

From: m6
Message: 45803
Date: 2006-08-22

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Carl Hult <datalampa@...> wrote:
>
> Many cultures have referred to the sun as being a wheel or circle
of
> fire. Anyone for a connection with wheel?
>
> Carl Hult



"The sun was a wheel ... like a chariot-wheel"

~ AETIUS, d. 367, Syrian theologian

in this context i cannot help but feel there may indeed be a
connection - if not etymological then by association - between the
name 'Helios' and the noun 'helix' [i.e. 'spiral'], in terms of the
spinning wheel motif?

thanks,

ric kemp

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