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Apollo shrine, Italy, by Associazione Tradizionale Pietas
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Looks like someone's happy to be back in the spotlight...
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Apollo and a maenad
Terracotta crater decor by the painter of Nazzano, 350 BC
Museo nazionale etrusco di Villa Giulia - Villa Poniatowski, Rome, Italy
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Eres un pollo 🐓✨
This is inspired by @greekmythcomix (really cute) Greek myth/Ancient Roman chicken series. They're all so charming, I had to try my hand at it.
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What is known about Apollo being the owner of the griffins, are there any myths about that? I once read that he just went looking for these creatures and came back riding one of them, it's so iconic I love him
I've not read anything like that :0 what I do know about griffins is that they are native to Hyperborea, which is one of Apollo's sacred lands. While I've never read any myths about him and griffins, there are quite a few art forms depicting him with his Griffin:
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Thank you Lord Apollo
Thank you for always listening to me in my good and bad moments.
Thank you for bringing me warmth and comfort when I’m at my lowest.
Thank you for your love and your kind words of encouragement.
Thank you for supporting me and reassuring me about my future.
Thank you for showing me that there is still hope and that tomorrow exists.
Thank you for being my light in the darkness, my spiritual guide and a comforting and heartwarming presence.
Thank you for helping me heal in the outside and the inside.
Thank you for you Lord Apollo.
Thank you for being in our lives.
Thank you, O bright and beautiful Apollo. May your light shine forever, our warm protector.
Lord ☀️Apollo☀️, we love you.❤️
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Music, poetry, archery, prophecy, truth, healing, plague, sun, light, and who knows maybe more.
The one and only, Apollo☀️
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Found a translation of hymns to Apollo and Dionysus where their epithets have been arranged in alphabetical order and this might be my new favourite thing because
- Book 9 of the Greek Anthology, translated by W.R. Paton
Look at the contrast between some of their epithets (Apollo and Dionysus respectively):
"hater of lies, giver of the soul" - "liar, tearer of the soul"
"soft speaking" - "noisy" (lol)
"sober" - "Deep drinker"
"Sweet-spoken, sweet-hearted, gentle-handed" - "Prone to anger, stout of heart"
"Gentle, sorrowless, giver of wealth, saviour from trouble" - "Jealous, very wrathful, envious, bestower of envy"
"father of fruits" - "eater of raw flesh" (BRUH)
"father of light" - "God of the night"
"Cheerer of the spirit" - "Disturber of the soul"
BUT they still have a lot in common:
"stiller of grief - healer of sorrow", "strong hearted - lion hearted", "soft haired - tender haired", "dweller on the hills - dweller in the woods" "thousand-shaped", "desirable" and my favourite, "common to all".
And it really does encapsulate the relationship between Apollo and Dionysus so well (and the duality of Apollo and Dionysus as individual gods too)
I'm also a sucker for epithets that describe appearance and I'm absolutely delighted with Apollo being "rose-coloured", "golden, golden-complexioned" and "glittering" (but is anyone surprised? XD)
Dionysus on the other hand, a bit concerning cause "slender, wrinkled"? And also he's "liquid"?? (idk what that's even supposed to mean. A reference to wine?) But "golden-filleted" and "Golden-horned" sound lovely <3
Also the fact that Dionysus is called "Satyr" and Apollo "Titan" is very interesting to me. Apollo - Titan makes sense when you consider the conflation between him and Helios. But Dionysus is a surprise. Are there any myths where he's syncretised/conflated with Pan (since he's the only Satyr god I can remember)? Of course it could be to show his chthonic nature, or that he's mostly around satyrs. But this piqued my curiosity.
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Stop in the sun for a moment and be still. the light clasps you in its hands and holds you safe, even as the wind tugs at your hair and the shadows crawl towards night. As long as you can tell the sun from the sky, you have a direction to walk and a light to guide you. Stand, rest, and find comfort, at least, in that.
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Dadpollo this, dadpollo that, but what about grandpa Apollo
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What are Apollo's roles as a chthonic deity?
Chthonic deities are the ones that live underworld, or beneath the earth, so Apollo is technically not a chthonic deity. But if you meant to ask for Apollo’s association with death, then there are some. Though, I think the prominent one would be Soranus, the Roman underworld deity, being replaced by Apollo and His cults (I’ll talk about that in the end since it’s explanation might a bit lengthy).
> Apollo is the God of tombs/cemeteries. He guards the souls in the tomb till the body decays and soul can be separated. Hermes is the god who conducts the souls to underworld, but Apollo separates the soul from the flesh. The Ionian tombs have inscriptions asking Apollo to guard the dead bodies and purify their souls.
> Apollo is the God of disease, and that’s his deadly side. He brings death to old and young alike (especially to the young boys). I know any God can bring death to a mortal if They wished, but it was under immediate care of Apollo and Artemis, and They were famously called as bringers of sudden deaths.
> Apollo is especially concerned with dead bodies and their proper burial. This can also be seen when He scolds the other Gods during Trojan war for letting Achilles drag Hector’s dead body. Apollo also protects the dead body by His magic. He is also the one to retrieve the dead body Sarpedon (a son of Zeus) from the battlefield.
> Apollo’s connection with decaying of dead bodies can also be taken from Apollo’s punishment to Python. Python means “rotter”, and the first ever punishment given by Apollo is rotting. His epithet, Pythios, also derives it’s origin from this feat of His.
> The cycle of life and death is a part of Apollo’s nature. His visit to Hyperborea brings winter to the world (and was considered as His “annual death” in Delphi.) He brought death to everything (vegetation especially)with His departure. With His return, new life would be generated. Through the summer and winter cycle He caused, Apollo was both the bringer of life and death.
> Apollo has “consumed” some Gods. I mean, Python was considered as an oracular deity so Apollo basically killed a deity and established His own cult there. And Python wasn’t the only one. Apollo also replaced Paean, an early Greek deity of healing (Paean is now only an epithet of Apollo). Hyacinthus was a pre-hellenic God as well, whose cults were consumed by cults of Apollo, or rather, both were merged and considered as one God - Apollo Hyacinthus. And the most interesting one - Soranus, a Roman underworld deity, was also subsumed by Apollo (Here He is called Apollo Soranus). Hence Apollo basically has taken over the chthonic responsibilities of the former deity - death and purification.
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Apollo, strumming: 🎶Heyy☀️☀️☀️🎶 🎶how you doin’? no I’m doing just fine😊 i lied😩 I’M DYING INSIDE💀🎶
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