#phainon deity

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"One of them is the star, Phainon by name, a youth whom Prometheus made excelling all others in beauty, when he was making men. Therefore he is placed among the stars."

— Heraclides Ponticus, Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2. 42

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The astra planeta

Were the gods of the five wandering stars. They were named Phainon, Phaethon, Pyroeis, Phosphorus & Hesperus and Stilbon. In ancient Greek vase painting they were depicted as youths diving into the earth-encircling river Okeanos before the rising chariot of the sun-god Helios.