MYTH - APOLO
Neto and son of Zeus, and twin brother of Artemis, was the great Sun God. His myth has finally overcome completely to Helio, the sun itself.
Immediately after birth, his first request was a bow and arrows. He received them from Hephaestus and became the god archer. With his precise shot, see a distant target that their arrows never sure erravam.
Apollo and equipped with these weapons, held their adventure more important. It was sent to Mount Parnassus, where, hidden in a cave, lived a serpent Python, enemy's mother. The snake fled to the Oracle of Mother Earth at Delphi, where the god paid it with their arrows sure, with the cleft sacred. Outrage, the Mother-Earth was unfortunate to Zeus. After that episode of crime and blood, Apollo needed to purify it. The Grand Olympic Lord ordered him to be for Vale of Tempe, where he stayed for a year. Zeus also introduced, in honor of Python, the Pythian Games, to which your child should preside as penance.
Finally purified, the god returned to Greece with its procession of priests, and was received with honors and celebrations. Take possession of the Oracle of Delphi, in its place erected his temple. Forced the priestess of the Oracle, the pythoness, to be at your service, is also to hold their gift of prophecy. In this sanctuary, the god has a tripod, covered with a skin of Python, where he sat the pythoness to deliver their oracles.
Before answering the queries, the priestess down by a hollow ring to the "omphalos" - stone that symbolized the navel of the earth and the center of the world. After that gripped Apollo is the Oracle, the stone came to be regarded as phallic symbol, representative of God.
At the entrance of the temple, was read his two most famous precept: "You know you yourself" and "Nothing is too much." And also its most important laws: Turn your spirit, your notes limit; despise the pride; maintains the reverence; fears the authority, reverence and you Kneel before the deity; maintain control over women.
Apollo was the legislature and that PUNIA the errors. The cities sent emissaries to Delphi in search of advice, and ministers of Apollo were sent to cities as interpreters of Greek civil and religious laws.
Apollo was an ancient god Asia, probably linked to the cult of the Moon, who suffered several syncretism and took several attributes: from a protector god of flocks and shepherds, the arrows sure, the music and even the great poets purifying god, god of prophecy and medicine. The diversity of influences and functions gathered around a single god made him a mythical figure quite complex.
Apollo was god represented as a young, very beautiful, tall and long black hair. It was a sun god, brilliant, incorruptible, but its Unicoi could be terrible. More important was the son of Zeus and also the most respected by Olympic, after the father. He had several love affairs with nymphs and with fatal and also many children.
