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