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Apollo
~ APOLLO or APOLO APOLLON point to APOLOGY APOLOGIZE ^u id+ | DIVINE TRUTH or ENLIGHTENMENT | id+ | "I SEE" calls for an APOLOGY to APOLLO | id+ | DEITY OF HARMONY thus MUSIC and MEDICINE | id+ | APOLLO HARMONIZED SCIENCE WITH ARTS | id+ | emblem of THE "GOLDEN MEAN" or MODERATION | maxim> "KNOW THYSELF" sug> ENLIGHTEN "DO NOT EXCEED" sug> DELIGHT "THE MEAN IS BEST" id+ | LIGHT TRUTH nor APOLLO imply KINDNESS | maxim> "TRUTH MAY DESTROY" "TRUTH CAN BLIND" id+ | APOLLO AS THE FATHER OF AESCULAPIUS IS THE GRANDFATHER OF MEDICINE | maxim> "HEALTH IS HARMONY" and "HARMONY HEALS" myth> hx> APOLLO IS A COMPLEX or COMPOUND DEITY WITH ORIENTAL DORIAN and NORDIC ROOTS the former tradition expressed in DELOS sug> DELIA the later expressed in DELPHI sug> PHILADELPHIA note etym> landscape form old Doric roots APELLA = or in Hittite APULUNAS or APELLON for the DEITY APOLLO note implications in gr APOLLYNAI or APOLLON or OLLYNAI THE ONE THAT MAY DESTROY lat APPELANDUS TO NAME or TO NOTE or SEE sp APELLAR TO CALL TO APPEAL APELLIDO SURNAME skt SAVITA SUN GOD eng SAVVY CLEVER ukr OSVITA EDUCATION lat VITA VITAL or LIFE sp SABIO WISE SABER TO KNOW note numerous APOLLO titles or APPELATIONS the most popular include LYKIOS see> LUX see> LIGHT see> ANUBIS sug> SUN GOD see> PHOEBUS for "SHINING" or PHOIBUS for "MENTAL LIGHT" sug> HYPERION myth> father of sug> HELIOS for "PHYSICAL LIGHT" sug> HELIUS SUN see> SOL see> OSIRIS myth> DEITY OF ENLIGHTENMENT see> PYTHIAN see> PYTHON myth> APOLLO WAS THE SON OF ZEUS & LETONA or LETO WHO WAS PERSECUTED BY HERA and SAVED BY POSEIDON WHO CREATED DELOS or "BRIGHT" or ILLUMINATED ISLAND WHERE LATONA or LETO DELIVERED FRATERNAL TWINS APOLLO AND HIS SISTER see> ARTEMIS or see> DIANA APOLLO REPRESENTS A DUAL GOD A DUALITY REFLECTED IN HIS NAMES PHOEBOS APOLLO as in MENTAL "LIGHT" and HELIOS TO DENOTE PHYSICAL "LIGHT" sug> SUN or SOL note APOLLO THOUGHT HIS MORTAL SON AESCULAPIUS or ESCULAPIUS or ESCULAPIO MEDICAL SCIENCES AND ARTS WHEN ESCULAPIUS CURED MANY DESTINED TO DIE THIS UNDERMINED THE ROLE OF THE UNDERWORLD PLUTO or URANUS APPEALED TO ZEUS WHO KILLED ESCULAPIUS APOLLO RESENTED THE ACT FIERCELY AND IN A RAGE KILLED THE CYCLOPS WHO POWERED THE FORGES OF VULCAN FOR THIS ACT APOLLO WAS EXILED FROM THE HEAVENS TO EARTH AND BECAME A SHEPARD FOR KING see> ADMETOS and his wife see> ALCESTIS {a beautiful story of love and devotion} WHEN see> HERMES or see> MERCURY STOLE CATTLE FROM HIM THE CRIME ATONED BY A PRESENT TO APOLLO OF A LYRA or LYRE WHICH APOLLO PERFECTED INTO A SEVEN STRING MUSICAL INSTRUMENT FORERUNNER OF THE LIRA and GHITAR or GUITAR THE SOUND OF THIS INSTRUMENT MOVED BEASTS TO BE TAME AND INDUCED ROCKS TO MOVE AND BECOME THE WALLS OF TROY ONCE WHEN RESTING NEAR THE CASTALIA FOUNTAIN ON MOUNT PARNASUS WHERE ROAMED THE MAGIC HORSE see> PEGASUS APOLLO HIS NINE HALF SISTERS THE DAUGHTERS OF ZEUS {JUPITER} AND MNEMOSINA see> MEMORY JOINTLY WITH THE NINE MUSES see> MUSIC APOLLO MADE EARTH A HAPPY PLACE see> CALIOPE who excelled in sug> POETRY sug> MELPOMENE sug> TRAGEDY sug> TALIA sug> COMEDY sug> POLIMNIA sug> RHETORIC see> ERATO sug> LYRICISM sug> EUTERPE sug> SONG sug> URANIA sug> ASTRONOMY sug> CLIO sug> HISTORY sug> TERPSICHORE sug> DANCE lit+ AN APOLOGY BY APOLLO SAVED ORESTES hx> THE ROMAN EMPEROR NERO [#] STOLE 500 STATUES FROM DELPHI TO DECORATE HIS ROMAN "GOLDEN HOUSE" UNDER EMPEROR HADRIAN [#] IMPERIAL SUPPORT FOR GREECE AND DELPHI REACHED ITS SUMMIT THE LAST ORACULAR RESPONSE WAS GIVEN TO EMPEROR JULIAN [#] IN 363 AD WHO WAS A PHILOSOPHER HATED BY CHRISTIANS WHO DUBBED HIM AS APOSTATE BEFORE 400 AC EMPEROR THEODOSIUS [#] CLOSED THE SANCTUARY and see> ZEALOT EMPEROR ARCADIUS [#] DEMOLISHED THE SITE TO STIFLE THE HUMANISM REPRESENTED BY THE IDEALS LINKED WITH APOLLO med> AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL LIGHT APOLLO DESTROYED IGNORANCE BY SHEDDING LIGHT TO ILLUMINATE OBSCURE FACTS note APOLLO REPRESENTED THE HIGHEST PROTOTYPE OF MASCULINE BEAUTY BUT FEMALES OFTEN REJECTED HIM see> DAPHNE note APOLLO or APOLLON WAS AN ORACULAR GOD implying A LINKAGE TO ORACLES WHO WERE EMPOWERED TO THROW LIGHT OR TO ILLUMINATE THE ALLEYWAYS OF THE FUTURE cont> in addenda see> ~& APOLLO symb> THE PRINCIPAL SYMBOL OF APOLLO WAS THE LYRE AND A LARGE NUMBER OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS incl LAUREL BAY LEAF WOLF SWAN VULTURE CROW RAVEN STAG DOLPHIN biol> note spider or arach APOLLOPHANES art> APOLLO is often shown in ancient mosaics with a MITHRAIC RADIATING sun like CROWN ONE OF THE FINEST TEMPLES TO APOLLO WAS AT AMYKLAE note AT OLYMPIA THE TEMPLE OF ZEUS CONTAINED A HIS STATUE from the 5th century BC the trend was to depict APOLLO or APOLON or APOLLON as a YOUTH or YOUTHFUL ATHLETE AT THE HEIGHT OF MASCULINE BEAUTY AND GRACE CONVEYED BY THE CLASSIC STATUE KNOWN AS " APOLLO BELVEDERE " at the VATICAN and likely to be a copy from an original by the Greek sculptor LEOCARES [#] note that in many paintings the symbol of APOLLO was A BLAZE OF LIGHT or GOLD similar to the symbols used in CHRISTIAN ICONOGRAPHY or IKONOGRAPHY note how IN ART HARMONIOUS or BALANCED may be described as " APOLLONIAN " and its opp as " DIONYSIAN " or WILD from DIONYSIUS or BACCHUS or BACCHANAL often shown as DRUNKENNESS note the APOLLO SAUROCTONOS or LIZARD SLAYER a Roman copy from an original by PRAXITELES [#] note PRAXITELEAN meaning SOFT FLESH and SINUOUS POSE |