Helle (mythology)

Light is in the Greek mythology, the daughter of King Athamas and Nephele of Thebes.

Before the hatred of their stepmother Ino Bright flees with her brother Phrixus on the sent of her mother's golden, flying ram chrysomallos to Colchis. As they fly over the Dardanelles, Light sees illegally down, is seized by dizziness and falls into the sea. So was the old name Hellespont ( "Sea of ​​Light " ) for this strait.

Friedrich Schiller, in his ballad Hero and Leander another interpretation of the story. According to Schiller, it was the sea god who fell in love with Bright and pulled her into the depths of the ram. He turned it into an immortal goddess and made ​​her his wife.