Chrysus

Chrysus () in Greek mythology is a minor god and the personification of gold.

Mythology Chrysus is mentioned by Pindar:

In his Isthmian Odes, Pindar also wrote:

Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else,Pindar I.5.1–3

Furthermore, a scholium on those lines wrote ,Scholia on Pindar I.5.3., "The Sun came from Theia and Hyperion, and from the Sun came gold". denoting a special connection of Theia, the goddess of sight and brilliance, with gold as the mother of Helios the Sun.Isthmian odes of Pindar, edited with introduction and commentary by J. B. Bury, M.A., London, Macmillan and Co., 1892, p. 92

See also List of Greek deities Plutus

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