Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-25397320-20150322163750/@comment-6707115-20150425174626

24.150.82.174 wrote: Draconi Nascentum Imperatore wrote: If either child's relationship with their mother is like that of the Divine Archers (Artemis/Diana & Apollo) of Greco-Roman mythology, they'd be quite attatched to their Adalind (who'd be Leto/Latona in this case). Apollo has a Greek name: Helios.

Maybe the child's name will be Helius instead.

If only they made a spin-off where the child fights to get his sister back from the Royals or reunite with his sister somehow. Helios & Apollo are actually different figures in mythology. Helios is a titan, and the son of the Titan Hyperion (the titan of the East), and his two sisters are Selene (the moon), and Eos (the Dawn). In Greek Mythology, Apollo was associated with the Sun, Helios, but wasn't the Sun. Instead, he was a god of light, and he was the only one Helios would frequently permit to drive his chariot. Artemis was partnered up with Selene, though wasn't the moon (she was associated witht he night &/or moonlight).

While Rome drew parallels between their gods & those of the more culturally powerful Greeks, Helios & Selene were kind of left out. Diana (the Romanized Artemis) was prominent earlier than her brother Apollo in Rome. Before the time of Caesar, the Roman name for the Sun was simply "Sol" (which means Sun, like the Helios is Sun in Greek). It was only around the time of Augustus that Apollo really began to take off in Rome as he was seen as the sun god (since his sister Diana was already the Roman Moon godess), & got even greater traction when stories began to circulate that Augustus' natural father was actually the god Apollo. The story was that his mother Atia had fallen asleep in the temple of Apollo, had a strange dream, and awoke to find snakeskin (serpents were symbols of the gods, as there are stories of gods asuming the forms of serpents, there's a story Zeus concieved Alexander the Great with Olympias while in the form of a serpent) marks between her thighs, and that nine months later, the future Emperor Augustus was born.

Later though during Aurelian the term Sol would come back as "Sol Invictus", "The Unconquerable Sun".