Anthelioi

Anthelioi (Ancient Greek: Ἀνθήλιοι δαίμονες) or Antelii or Anthelii were certain divinities whose images stood before the doors of houses,[1] and were exposed to the sun, from which they derived their name,[2][3] which is literally "gods that face the sun".[4] The sun conceptually was to animate the statues with its pneuma.[4]

These deities were similar in character to a number of other gateway-gods, including Cardea, and Apollo under the epithet Apollo Thyraeus, protector of doorways.[1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Tertullian. The Selected Works of Tertullian. Library of Alexandria. 1. Library of Alexandria. ISBN 9781465588432. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
  2. ↑ Aeschylus, Agamemnon 530
  3. ↑ Christian Lobeck, On the Ajax of Sophocles 805
  4. 1 2 Cheak, Aaron, ed. (2013). Alchemical Traditions: From Antiquity to the Avant-Garde. Numen Books. p. 148. ISBN 9780987559821. Retrieved 2016-01-08.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Leonhard Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Antheas Lindius". In Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 184. 


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