HELIUS - PHAETON

This is a story about the first weather control and its effects. In Greek mythology, the sun god Helius drove a golden sun chariot pulled by four horses. He started out in the far east every morning and he steered these four powerful horses all the way across the sky to west. At night there was a ferry boat which carried Helius and his golden chariot and the four horses all the way back on the world river down below the earth back to his starting point the next morning in the east.

Helius' son Phaeton was constantly plaguing Helius for permission to drive the sun chariot. Phaeton "wished to show his sisters what a fine fellow he was, and his fond mother encouraged him" (1). One morning Phaeton's sisters yoked the four horses to the golden sun chariot for Phaeton, who drove off before Helius awoke for his daily run from east to west.

QUESTIONS

1. What in you would like the story to end at this point, and why?
   
   
2. What might be some contemporary equivalents of "showing what a fine fellow" one is as professional or student?

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