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ゼウスはヘレニズムの太陽神ヘリオースと混同されることがあり、ヘリオースはゼウスの目として直接言及されるか<ref>Sick, David H. (2004), "Mit(h)ra(s) and the Myths of the Sun", Numen, 51 (4): 432–467, JSTOR:3270454</ref>、明らかにそのように暗示されることがある。例えばヘシオードスは、ゼウスの目を事実上太陽と表現している<ref>Ljuba Merlina Bortolani, Magical Hymns from Roman Egypt: A Study of Greek and Egyptian Traditions of Divinity, Cambridge University Press, 13 October 2016</ref>。この認識はおそらく、原インド・ヨーロッパ語族の宗教に由来するもので、その中で太陽は*Dyḗus Pḥatḗの目として想定されている（Hvare-khshaeta参照）<ref>West Martin Litchfield, Martin Litchfield West, Indo-European Poetry and Myth, 2007, Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, isbn:978-0-19-928075-9, http://library.globalchalet.net/Authors/Poetry%20Books%20Collection/Indo-European%20Poetry%20and%20Myth.pdf, 7 May 2017, pages194–196</ref><ref group="私注">おそらく、起源は良渚文化あたりにあるのではなかろうか、と思う。</ref>。エウリピデスは失われた悲劇『ミシガン人』の中でゼウスを「太陽の目」と表現し、ヘリオスは他の場所で「生命を与えるゼウスの輝かしい目」と言われている<ref>Cook, p. [https://archive.org/details/zeusstudyinancie01cookuoft/page/196/mode/2up?view=theater 196]</ref>エウリピデスの別の悲劇『メデイア』では、コーラスがヘリオスのことを「ゼウスから生まれた光」と表現している<ref>Euripides, ''Medea'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0114%3Acard%3D1251 1258]; ''The Play of Texts and Fragments: Essays in Honour of Martin Cropp'' by J. Robert C. Cousland, James, 2009, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=hcW-i_nrpWEC&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA161 161]</ref>。
ヘリオースとゼウスの関係は、初期のギリシアの信仰や書物には根拠がないようだが、それでも後世には直接的に同一視される例が多くある<ref>Cook, pp [https://archive.org/details/zeusstudyinancie01cookuoft/page/186/mode/2up?view=theater 186–187]</ref>。
Although the connection of Helios to Zeus does not seem to have basis in early Greek cult and writings, nevertheless there are many examples of direct identification in later times.<ref>Cook, pp [https://archive.org/details/zeusstudyinancie01cookuoft/page/186/mode/2up?view=theater 186–187]</ref> The Hellenistic period gave birth to [[Serapis]], a Greco-Egyptian deity conceived as a chthonic avatar of Zeus, whose solar nature is indicated by the sun crown and rays the Greeks depicted him with.<ref name=":co188">Cook, pp [https://archive.org/details/zeusstudyinancie01cookuoft/page/188/mode/2up?view=theater 188–189]</ref> Frequent joint dedications to "Zeus-Serapis-Helios" have been found all over the Mediterranean,<ref name=":co188"/> for example, the Anastasy papyrus (now housed in the [[British Museum]] equates Helios to not just Zeus and [[Serapis]] but also [[Mithras]],<ref>Cook, p. [https://archive.org/details/zeusstudyinancie01cookuoft/page/190/mode/2up?view=theater 190]</ref> and a series of inscriptions from [[Lajat|Trachonitis]] give evidence of the cult of "Zeus the Unconquered Sun".<ref>Cook, p. [https://archive.org/details/zeusstudyinancie01cookuoft/page/192/mode/2up?view=theater 193]</ref> There is evidence of Zeus being worshipped as a solar god in the Aegean island of [[Amorgos]], based on a lacunose inscription ''{{lang|grc|Ζεὺς Ἥλ[ιο]ς}}'' ("Zeus the Sun"), meaning sun elements of Zeus' worship could be as early as the fifth century BC.<ref>Cook, p. [https://archive.org/details/zeusstudyinancie01cookuoft/page/194/mode/2up?view=theater 194]</ref>
The [[Crete|Cretan]] Zeus [[Talos|Tallaios]] had solar elements to his cult. "Talos" was the local equivalent of Helios.<ref>Karl Kerenyi, The Gods of the Greeks 1951:110.</ref>
