Editing Helios (section)

==== In magic ====
He also had a role in necromancy magic. The [[Greek Magical Papyri]] contain several recipes for such, for example one which involves invoking the Sun over the skull-cup of a man who suffered a violent death; after the described ritual, Helios will then send the man's ghost to the practitioner to tell them everything they wish to know.<ref>Ogden 2001, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=93y-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA211 211]</ref> Helios is also associated with Hecate in cursing magic.<ref name=":queen">Sharynne MacLeod NicMhacha, ''Queen of the Night: Rediscovering the Celtic Moon Goddess'', Weiser Books, 2005; pp [https://books.google.com/books?id=1l1yXq4xGHsC&pg=PA62 62-63]; {{ISBN|1-57863-284-6}}.</ref> In some parts of [[Asia Minor]] Helios was adjured not to permit any violation of the grave in tomb inscriptions and to warn potential violators not to desecrate the tomb, like one example from Elaeussa-Sebaste in [[Cilicia]]:

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We adjure you by the heavenly god [Zeus] and Helios and Selene and the gods of the underworld, who receive us, that no one [. . .] will throw another corpse upon our bones.<ref name="farob">Faraone and Obbink, p. 35</ref>
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Helios was also often invoked in funeral imprecations.<ref name=":fnimp">Faraone and Obbink, p. [https://eclass.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/ARCH310/Readings%20for%2022%20Dec%20and%2012%20Jan/Faraone%20and%20Obink%20Magika%20Hiera%20Ebook.pdf 46]</ref> Helios might have been chosen for this sort of magic because as an all-seeing god he could see everything on earth, even hidden crimes, and thus he was a very popular god to invoke in prayers for vengeance.<ref name=":fnimp" /> Additionally, in ancient magic evil-averting aid and apotropaic defense were credited to Helios.<ref>Collins, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=_wq7PgIy8RgC&pg=PA128 128]</ref> Some magic rituals were associated with the engraving of images and stones, as with one such spell which asks Helios to consecrate the stone and fill with luck, honour, success and strength, thus giving the user incredible power.<ref>HALUSZKA, ADRIA. "SACRED SIGNIFIED: THE SEMIOTICS OF STATUES IN THE 'GREEK MAGICAL PAPYRI.'" Arethusa, vol. 41, no. 3, The [[Johns Hopkins University Press]], 2008, pp. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/44578289 479–94]</ref>

Helios was also associated with love magic, much like Aphrodite, as there seems to have been another but rather poorly documented tradition of people asking him for help in such love matters,<ref>Faraone, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Aq-Yg6B51NsC&pg=PA139 139]</ref> including homosexual love<ref>Faraone, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Aq-Yg6B51NsC&pg=PA141 141]</ref> and magical recipes invoking him for affection spells.<ref>Faraone, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Aq-Yg6B51NsC&pg=PA10 105]</ref>