Who is the real Greek god of the sun?

I keep on hearing that Helios is the sun god that drives the sun across the sky. Yet, I am also hearing Appollo is the sun god. Who is the real sun god?|||We have a succession of gods in Greek myths, e.g. Uranus the first king of the gods was overthrown by his son Cronus, and Cronus was overthrown by his son Zeus. In the same manner, we have a succession of Sun gods. Hyperion was the first one, and his son Helios replaced him. In some later myths, Apollo became the Sun god. In the "Iliad", Apollo was the god of prophecy and some other things, and Helios was still the Sun god.|||I'd say that only Garrett is making some sense.





First of all, it's Apollo (1 p, 2 l) and he was not Roman. He was not even Greek, though he was adopted by the Greeks. His origin was probably Eastern. In polytheistic systems, it is very common to add a god from time to time. What happens when you like a god and want to adopt him is that you have to find him a place. There are several myths in Greek mythology which detail how this happened. For instance, ever wondered why Athena was born from her father's head? It's because Zeus ate Metis, the former, un-Greek goddess of wisdom, about nine months previously. This myth shows us how Greek culture adopted and transformed a new goddess - their interest in this case is to make the goddess of wisdom inferior to the father of the gods.





It is the same thing with Apollo. He only became a god of prophecy, for instance, when he defeated the she-snake Pytho in Delphi, taking her place as the supervisor of the oracle.





Helios was a memory from a very ancient time, when Greek religion relied heavily on giving a face to natural phenomena. Most Titans do not represent nature, they are nature. Helios is the sun, and Selene is the moon, and so on. Greek religion then evolved from this ancient belief into something more modern: that natural phenomena were just that, nature; but they were supervised by multi-tasking gods. Historically, the next step in this path is to say that all gods are really one, and many philisophers and mystics in Greek antiquity thought so.





Anyway, the old idea of the Titans was put to one side, and the Greeks launched with enthusiasm into the novel idea of the Olympic family. Apollo, who is a very peculiar but beloved god, was given a huge number of tasks - music, healing, supervising the sun, but also pestilence - and he was given a twin sister, Artemis, to llok after the moon, the forests, and other feminine things, such as childbirth.





So here you have it. Helios is an embodiment of the sun; Apollo is the god of the sun; educated Athenians probably didn't believe in either, or if they did, they didn't believe in the stories associated to either of them.





I think what we can still learn from all this magnificent succession of gods, this incredible polytheism, is a bit of tolerance for other people's faith; in the end, as the Greeks said, all gods are one and the same.|||Helios was the actual sun. Apollo had the duty of pulling Helios across the sky.





Apollo was not just the god of the sun, he was also the god of truth, healing, plaque, archery, poetry and music.|||Apollo was roman.



He pulled the sun across the sky in a chariot. Helios is the Greek "god" of the sun.



Another this is that Helios was a titan, while Apollo was actually a god.|||Helios was the actual sun, while his sister Selene was the moon. Apollo the Sun God, twin brother of Artemis the Moon Goddess, pulled the sun across the sky.|||Helios was more of a titan who was the actual sun. Apollo, the god of the sun, pulled the sun(Helios) across the sky.|||Apollo is medicine, Helios is the sun god. He has a chariot of fire which represents the sun.|||muhammed amd the moon god is Allah