Anthelioi

Anthelioi (Ancient Greek: Ἀνθήλιοι δαίμονες) or Antelii or Anthelii were certain divinities whose images stood before the doors of houses,^[1] and were exposed to the sun, from which they derived their name,^[2]^[3] which is literally "gods that face the sun".^[4] The sun conceptually was to animate the statues with its pneuma.^[4]

These deities were similar in character to a number of other gateway-gods, including Cardea, and Apollo under the epithet Apollo Thyraeus, protector of doorways.^[1]

Notes

^ ^a ^b Tertullian (28 September 2020). The Selected Works of Tertullian. Library of Alexandria. Vol. 1. Library of Alexandria. ISBN 9781465588432. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
^ Aeschylus, Agamemnon 530
^ Christian Lobeck, On the Ajax of Sophocles 805
^ ^a ^b Cheak, Aaron, ed. (2013). Alchemical Traditions: From Antiquity to the Avant-Garde. Numen Books. p. 148. ISBN 9780987559821. Retrieved 2016-01-08.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Anthelii". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 184.

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[tert-1] Tertullian (28 September 2020). The Selected Works of Tertullian. Library of Alexandria. Vol. 1. Library of Alexandria. ISBN 9781465588432. Retrieved 2016-01-08.

[2] Aeschylus, Agamemnon 530

[3] Christian Lobeck, On the Ajax of Sophocles 805

[alchemy-4] Cheak, Aaron, ed. (2013). Alchemical Traditions: From Antiquity to the Avant-Garde. Numen Books. p. 148. ISBN 9780987559821. Retrieved 2016-01-08.

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