Editing Helios (section)

==== Persephone ====
[[File:Head Helios AM Rhodes E49.jpg|thumb|left|Head of Helios, middle period, [[Archaeological Museum of Rhodes]]]]

{{rquote|right|But, Goddess, give up for good your great lamentation.<br />You must not nurse in vain insatiable anger.<br />Among the gods Aidoneus is not an unsuitable bridegroom,<br />Commander-of-Many and Zeus's own brother of the same stock.<br />As for honor, he got his third at the world's first division<br />and dwells with those whose rule has fallen to his lot.|''[[Homeric Hymn]] to [[Demeter]]'', lines 82–87, translated by Helene Foley<ref>Foley, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=wRARAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA6 6]</ref>}}

Helios is said to have seen and stood witness to everything that happened where his light shone. When [[Hades]] abducts [[Persephone]], Helios is the only one to witness it.{{sfn|Penglase|1994|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=U4mFAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA124 124]}}

In Ovid's ''[[Fasti (poem)|Fasti]]'', Demeter asks the stars first about Persephone's whereabouts, and it is [[Helice (mythology)|Helice]] who advises her to go ask Helios. Demeter is not slow to approach him, and Helios then tells her not to waste time, and seek out for "the queen of the third world".<ref>[[Ovid]], ''[[Fasti (poem)|Fasti]]'' [https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/OvidFastiBkFour.php#anchor_Toc69367852 4.575]</ref>