Greek Mythology/Titans/Helios

thumb|right|Statue of Helios and Selene Helios (Greek: Ἠέλιος) was the god that personified the Sun. His name derives from ἥλιος, the Greek word for "sun," and he is often depicted with a radiate crown and piloting a horse-drawn chariot in the sky. He is the son of titans Hyperion and Theia, and he is the brother of Selene, the goddess of the moon and Eos, the goddess of the dawn. In Greek cosmology, Helios was not merely the god of the sun, but a direct personification of the sun, and his movements followed a daily cycle. At dawn, he was awakened by a rooster and began his journey from an eastern palace in the Oceanus River (the world-encircling ocean). While high in the sky, this altitude allowed him to see everything that occurred on Earth. Over the course of the day, he traveled all the way to the western edges of the world before returning to his palace for the night.