Talos
In the Cretan tales incorporated into
Greek mythology, Tálos (Greek Τάλως; Latin Talus) or Tálon (Greek Τάλων) was a giant man of bronze who protected
Europa in
Crete, circling the island's shores three times daily while guarding it. In the Cretan dialect talôs was the equivalent of the Greek
hêlios, the sun: the lexicon of
Hesychius of Alexandria notes simply, "Talos is the sun." In Crete
Zeus was worshipped as Zeus Tallaios, "Solar Zeus", absorbing the earlier god as an
epithet in the familiar sequence. The god was identified with the Tallaia, a spur of the Ida range in Crete. On the coin from
Phaistos (illustration) he is winged; in Greek vase-paintings and Etruscan bronze mirrors he is not. The ideas of Talos vary widely, with one consistent detail: in Greek imagery outside Crete, Talos is always being vanquished: he seems to have been an enigmatic figure to the Greeks themselves.
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Taligent
talo (m)
n.
bind, stalk
Talos
[Greek heroic] Talos was a man of bronze, made by Hephaestus, whom Zeus gave to Europa after he kidnapped her and took her to Crete. Talos became the guardian of Crete, circling the island three times each day and throwing stones at any ship which approached its shores. He had a single vein, which ran from his neck to his ankle and was closed by a single bronze nail. When the Argo approached Crete on the way back from obtaining the Golden Fleece, Medea cast a spell on Talos and then removed the bronze nail; all of Talos' blood ran out and he died, thus enabling the ship to land.