Read the passage from The Odyssey - Elpenor. By night, our ship ran onward toward the Ocean's bourne, the realm and region of the Men of Winter hidden in mist and cloud. Never does the flaming eye of Helios light on those men in the morning when he climbs the sky of stars, nor in descending earthward out of heaven. Ruinous night being rove over those wretches.
For Odysseus and his men, the loss of Helios, the sun, symbolizes a loss of death, tear, hope, power.