Chrysus
{{short description|God of gold in Greek mythology}}
Chrysus (Greek: {{lang|grc|Χρυσός}}; Khrysos; meaning "gold"{{Cite web|title=Greek Word Study Tool|url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=*xruso/s&la=greek|access-date=2021-10-04|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}) in Greek mythology is a minor god and the personification of gold.
Mythology
Chrysus is mentioned by Pindar:
{{Quotation|Khrysos (Gold) is a child of Delos father of metals; neither moth nor rust devoureth it; but the mind of man is devoured by this supreme possession.|Pindar, Fragment 222 (trans. Sandys) (Greek lyric 5th century BC)}}
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 [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0162%3Abook%3DI.%3Apoem%3D5 I.5.1–3]
Furthermore, a scholium on those lines wrote {{lang|grc|ἐκ Θείας καὶ Ὑπερίονος ὁ Ἥλιος, ἐκ δὲ Ἡλίου ὁ χρυσός}},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. [https://books.google.com/books?id=JsmGAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA92 92]
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