Editing Helios (section)

=== Usil ===
[[File:M-Nymphenburg-SteinernerSaal03.JPG|thumb|upright=1.2|Helios in the Sun chariot accompanied by Phosphorus and Hermes, fresco at Nymphenburg Palace, [[Munich]].]]

The Etruscan god of the Sun was [[Usil]]. His name appears on the bronze [[liver of Piacenza]], next to ''Tiur'', the Moon.<ref>Larissa Bonfante and Judith Swaddling, ''Etruscan Myths'' (Series The Legendary Past, British Museum/University of Texas) 2006:77.</ref> He appears, rising out of the sea, with a fireball in either outstretched hand, on an engraved Etruscan [[bronze mirror]] in late Archaic style.<ref>Noted by {{cite journal |first=J.D. |last=Beazley |title=The world of the Etruscan mirror |journal=The Journal of Hellenic Studies |volume=69 |year=1949 |pages=1–17, esp. p.&nbsp;3, fig.&nbsp;1|doi=10.2307/629458 |jstor=629458 |s2cid=163737209 }}</ref> On Etruscan mirrors in Classical style, he appears with a [[Halo (religious iconography)|halo]]. In ancient artwork, [[Usil]] is shown in close association with [[Thesan]], the goddess of the dawn, something almost never seen with Helios and Eos,<ref>{{cite book |first1=Nancy Thomson |last1=de Grummond |first2=Erika |last2=Simon |title=The Religion of the Etruscans |publisher=University of Texas Press |date=2009-04-20}}</ref> however in the area between [[Cetona]] and [[Chiusi]] a stone [[obelisk]] is found, whose relief decorations seem to have been interpreted as referring to a solar sanctuary: what appears to be a Sun boat, the heads of Helios and Thesan, and a [[rooster|cock]], likewise referring to the Sunrise.<ref>Fischer-Hansen and Poulsen, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2garBSREfywC&pg=PA281 281]</ref>