Editing Helios (section)

=== Hades ===
Helios seems to have been connected to some degree with Hades, the god of the Underworld. A dedicatory inscription from [[Smyrna]] describes a 1st–2nd century sanctuary to "God Himself" as the most exalted of a group of six deities, including clothed statues of ''Plouton Helios'' and ''Koure Selene'', or in other words "[[Pluto (mythology)|Pluto]] the Sun" and "[[Persephone|Kore]] the Moon".<ref>Thompson, "ISmyrna 753," pp. 101ff</ref>  Roman poet [[Apuleius]] describes a rite in which the Sun appears at midnight to the initiate at the gates of [[Proserpina]]; the suggestion here is that this midnight Sun could be ''Plouton Helios''.<ref>Thompson, "ISmyrna 753," pp. 111.</ref> Pluto-Helios seems to reflect the Egyptian idea of the nocturnal Sun that penetrated the realm of the dead.<ref>Nilsson 1906, p. [https://archive.org/details/griechischefest01nilsgoog/page/428/mode/2up?view=theater 428]</ref>

An old oracle from [[Claros]] said that the names of Zeus, Hades, Helios, Dionysus and ''Jao'' all represented the Sun at different seasons.<ref>Inman, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=HIEBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA29 29]</ref> [[Macrobius]] wrote that Iao/Jao is "Hades in winter, Zeus in spring, Helios in summer, and Iao in autumn."<ref>[[Macrobius]], ''Saturnalia'' [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Macrobius/Saturnalia/1*.html#18.19 1.18.19]; Dillon, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=UAcqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA343 343]</ref>