Who is the Greek God of the Sun and what does the Sun with a face symbol mean?
Helios was the Greek god of the Sun and connected with chariots and horses and was the patron god of the island of Rhodes. Apollo was not god of the sun in Greek or Roman mythology. Apollo is never connected with chariots or horses or with the island of Rhodes. No myth applied to Helios is ever told of Apollo and not myth applied to Apollo is ever told of Helios. Yet religiously, in Hellenistic times, Apollo became the sun god in writings by philosophers and some religious commentators. However, in the same period almost everyone knew that the sun was really a big ball of fire orbiting the earth, not a god driving a chariot. Apollo was conceived to be sort of the spiritual force by which the sun moved, or something like that, the divine power behind the sun. Similarly Zeus was supposed to be the heavens, Hera was the air, Poseidon was water, Demeter was earth, Hephaistos was fire and so forth. So Apollo became the god of light and enlightenment in such artificial systems. But in mythol
