#Apollymi

[lunaticlockwood]

"Apollymi's gonna save your bloodline if y'all decide to have kids- since they'll probably end up being as tall as her!"

"Save my bloodline? What? What the fuck does that even mean?

"If you want tall kids ... I'd say have them, but I'm actually feeling like you probably shouldn't be around children. Ever."

@lostcityofapollymi

[iincantatorum]

Seeking Help: Apollymi Visits Dr. Harrison || @worldofsenelfy

On the day of her appointment with the psychologist, Apollymi walked into the office feeling a mix of nervousness and anticipation. As she greeted the psychologist, Will Harrison, she took a deep breath to steady herself and introduced herself in a sincere and straightforward manner:

"Hello, Dr. Harrison. My name is Apollymi, and it's a pleasure to meet you. I've sought out this appointment because I've been dealing with some personal issues that have been affecting my well-being, and I believe that speaking with a professional like yourself could be helpful in navigating through them."

She maintained a calm but vulnerable tone, expressing her willingness to open up and seek guidance:

"I've experienced a toxic relationship in the past that has left me with deep emotional scars and self-doubt. The gaslighting and emotional manipulation involved have had a lasting impact on my perception of myself, and I'm struggling to overcome this belief that I'm a bad person. It has affected my sense of self-worth and has made it difficult for me to trust others and form healthy relationships."

Apollymi conveyed her desire for personal growth and healing based on the steps she already took.

"I've distanced myself from that toxic environment, and I've made progress in rebuilding my life. However, I feel that there are unresolved issues and emotions that continue to hinder my ability to fully heal and move forward. I'm hoping to gain insight, develop coping strategies, and ultimately find a path towards self-acceptance, healing, and reclaiming my sense of identity."

[toytulini]

god that post really got me thinking i love a character relationship dynamic where the love and the loyalty and the devotion DO NOT equal obedience. it might even equal what feels like betrayal

[pyrokineticwarrior]

do you have a favorite weapon?

"Books- they're heavy and travel far when you fling them. You thought I'd say something like flaming sword, did ya?"

"I realized I don't exactly like books that much. Never could read it easily, why not make other uses in times of emergencies?"

[sharpenurdamnknife]

Apollymi would suggest a knife throwing contest to cheer Piper up.

My muse is feeling Lonely, how do they cheer them up?

"This sounds...unreasonably fun!" Piper admitted though she should probably be more cautious of throwing knives with strangers but hey. "What exactly will we be throwing knives at? And what will the prize be for the winner?"

[bunni-bun]

lord and all the gods above, please keep tory with ash because he needs someone like her so much. he deserves so much for all he does and for the absolute hell he's been through

[shesniktarch]

i want a new url for my multi but i'm terrible at coming up with ideas ;_;

[xrealmofmanymusesx]

Apollymi had laid the atlantean pantheon to waste and now her attention was to Olympus. Apollo had killed her son, her only child, and Artemis had corrupted him. The goddess of death stood in front of the golden gates of olympus.

Acheron had been in the underworld after his death. He wanted to stay there after the lost of his sister and nephew. He had no will to live but Artemis now gave him her blood so he could return to the world of the living and stop his mother.

@starchildrp

[mask131]

The myth of Apollo (6)

On to complete this little series I never had time to finish! As with my "The myth of Dionysos" series, I will end my loose translations with the section dedicated to Apollo in Félix Guirand's "Mythologie générale" (General mythology). As I said before, it was from the late 30s originally, so it is a bit old and some info might be outdated, but it was the dominant compendium for most of the 20th century, so it completes quite well the previous and more modern articles I shared before.

I/ Origins, traits and attributes

The etymology of the name « Apollon » is uncertain. None of those that were submitted are satisfying, be it its link to the old Greek verb “apello”, meaning “to push away, to repel”, or a potential tie to an ancient form of “apollumi/apollymi”, “to destroy” (Apollo “the destroyer” would be how he appears in The Iliad). Some even go as far as to try to link it to the English “apple” to make Apollo a primitive god of the apple-tree…

We are just as unsure when it comes to the god’s origins. Some think he comes from Asia: either he is a Hittite god, a double of the Arabian deity Hobal ; either he is a god from Lycia. Other meanwhile use Apollo’s close relationship to the Hyperborean to show him as a Nordic god, brought by the Greeks from Northern Europe during their migration. It is hard to choose between those opposite theories because each of them brings interesting and plausible ideas, while not actually presenting solid proof.

It must be said that the legend of Apollo is so diverging that it sometimes confines the myth into pure contradiction. For example, this deity which was the Greek god by excellence and the essence of Ancient Greece, somehow sides with the Trojan (aka, Asians) in The Iliad. And if we accept that Apollo comes from Asia, then why are his retreats identified as the Tempi Valley and Hyperborea, implied to be his native land? As for his attributes, they are so multiple and complex it is often hard to link them together.

Apollo is first and foremost a god of light, and a solar god – without actually personifying the celestial body itself, as the sun was identified with the specific god that is Helios. But as a light go he was called “Phoïbos”, “The Shining One/Bright One”, Xanthos “The Blond”, “Chrysocomès”, “Of gold hair”. He was said to enjoy most of all “high places”, the highest mountaintops and the promontories overseen the waters. It makes sense that this solar god would be the son of Leto, known by the Romans as Latone ; a deity who was very likely a night-goddess, and the double of the Asian Lada. As a solar god, Apollo is the one who helps fruits grow out of the earth, and this is why the first harvest was dedicated to him in Delos and Delphi. He was also a harvest-protector by destroying the rats that infested the fields (Apollo Smintheus) and repelling locusts (Apollo Parnopion). However, since the sun is also a murderous power whose rays were said to hit like shots, Apollo was seen as an archer god who threw far, far away his arrows (Hécatébolos) that caused sudden death. But, since the sun is also a benevolent power causing purification, Apollo was also the healer god that pushed away evil (Alexicacos). In this latter function, he seems to have replaced a more primitive Greek god known as Paeon (The Healer) and whose name is linked to the character of Paeéon that Homer names “the physicists of the gods”.

Apollo was also a god of divination and prophecy. Outside of the numerous oracles he owned in Asia Minor, Thymbra, Claros, Gryneium and Didymos, Apollo had sanctuaries all throughout Greece where people went to seek his council, as the god spoke there through his intermediaries, the Sibyl priestesses. Some famous examples of these sanctuaries were those of Tegyra and Thebes – in the Theban sanctuary, the Sibyl was none other than the daughter of Tiresias, Manto. Still in Thebes, by Pausanias’ time, one could find the stone on which Apollo’s priestesses stood to give his oracles, called “Manto’s seat”. This stone was later sent to Asia Minor, to create the Claros oracle. But of all the sanctuaries of Apollo, the most famous was of course Delphi, located in a deep grotto from which came out “prophetic vapors”. The priestess, called a Pythia, sat on a tripod at the entrance of the cave. Soon, under the influence of the god, she entered into a state of trance and, possessed by a “prophetic delirium”, she said fragmented and obscure sentences, interpreted in turn by the male priests of Apollo and by the members of the sacred council of Delphi. To give the power of divination to a solar god can be surprising, because in Ancient Greece prophecies usually were reserved to chthonian deities. And yet, Apollo ended up eclipsing all of those earthly oracles – as such, we have to consider that Apollo must have had his oracular powers before he entered Greece. This makes him very similar to the Assyro-Babylonian god Shamash, a sun god who has the power of divination ; and it would confirm the Asian origin of Apollo.

But outside of these facets of the solar god, Apollo has many, many other domains. Apollo was a shepherd/pastor god (Nomios) in charge of protecting herds and flocks. His epithet “Lycian”, if it isn’t simply an indication that he comes from Lycia, had been linked to some to the root “lux” of the Latin word “lux”, light – confirming the solar nature of the god. However, “Lycian”, in Greek “luxeioz”, is also linked to the word “luxoz”, “wolf”. Apollo might have been originally a wolf-god, or maybe simply a wolf-killer as his nickname “Lucoctonos” confirms. This all indicates a rural deity, which is to link to the way Dorians celebrated Apollo as a pastoral god called “Apollon Carneios” (Ram-Apollo). On top of this, Apollo was also the god of singing and of the lyre – this is how Homer painted him to us, as all the gods listening the beautiful melodies Apollo creates on his cithara. Apollo, finally, is a builder god and a colonizing god, who is said to “enjoy the building of cities, of which he always establishes the foundations”.

These many attributes lead one to believe that Apollo is actually the conflicting of several different personalities, and that he started out as an Asian solar god which, when brought over to Greece, was conflicted with a rural norther Greek god, the Apollo Nomios/Ram-Apollo of the Dorians.

II/ Depictions

Despite his multiplicity, Apollo always kept the same appearance. He was depicted as a young man of ideal beauty, with a strong body, a broad chest for narrow hips. His face was beardless and delicate, his high forehead crowned with thick and long hair, sometimes floating onto his back, sometimes tied into a knot with only a few curls falling on his shoulders. He was usually naked, or wore at most a chlamys. When depicted as a musician-god, he usually wears a long tunic with large folds. His attributes are the bow and the quiver, the shepherd’s crook and cithara. His dedicated animals were the swan, the vulture, the raven, the falcon, the cicada, the wolf and the snake. His favorite plants ere the laurel, the palm-tree, the olive-tree, and the tamaris.

III/ Birth of Apollo

According to the most ancient traditions, Apollo’s mother, Leto daughter of Coeos and Phoebe, was a wife of Zeus whose relationship with him was anterior to his marriage with Hera. It is as a former wife of Zeus that she appears in The Iliad, where she and her son protect the Trojans (probably due to their Asiatic origins). Hesiod also depicts her as such, adding that she wears a dark-veil, which seems a fitting outfit for a night goddess. It was only later that Leto became a mistress of Zeus faced with Hera’s jealousy – and the conflict between these two goddesses forms the main part of Leto’s legend.

When Leto, pregnant with Zeus, sensed she would soon start her labor, she went looking for a place perfect to deliver her babies. However, furious and jealous, Hera hunted her down, and forced her to cross Attica, Euboea, Thrace and the islands of the Aegean Sea. Leto kept asking each region, island and land if they wanted to welcome her, but all, fearing Hera’s wrath, refused. Hopefully Leto encountered the floating island of Ortygia, which was the final form of Leto’s sister, Asteria, which had turned into this landmass to avoid the lust of Zeus. Leto promised to Ortygia that, on its rocky and sterile ground, Apollo would build a splendid temple, and this gift had the island agree to welcome Leto. But Hera had made an oath that her rival would never give birth in a land touched by the rays of the sun ; to go around this restriction, Poseidon created a dome that he used to cover the island, and maintained by four pillars at the bottom of the sea. After the birth of Apollo, Ortygia’s name was changed into Delos, “The Shining One”.

When Hera realized she could not prevent the birth, she decided to slow it down as much as possible: while all the goddesses had come to Leto’s side to help her, Hera maintained by her side Ilithyia, the goddess of childbirth, forbidding her to go to Leto. During nine days and nine nights Leto suffered the pain of labor without being able to deliver her babies. Finally, Iris, sent to Olympos, managed to bring back Ilithyia. Finally, Leto gave birth to Apollo as all the goddesses screamed with joy, and the female Immortals washed young Phoïbos with pure water and wrapped him around in a white veil, closed by a golden belt (according to the Homeric Hymn to Apollo). At the same time, Leto also gave birth to a daughter, Artemis. (Sometimes, due to the similarity of names, Apollo’s birthplace was not identified as the Delos island, but as the Ortygia sacred wood, near Ephesus). Apollo’s birth, unfortunately, did not end Leto’s torment. Out of fear of Hera she had to flee Delos and hide in Asia Minor, in the Termite Land, later known as Lycia. One day there, as she came near a pond, she tried to drink its water – wicked shepherds prevented her to do so and soiled the water. Leto, as a punishment, turned them into frogs.

IV/ Apollo’s childhood; the Python snake

Apollo was not nursed by his mother’s milk ; instead he was fed by Themis with ambrosia and nectar. As soon as he consumed those products, Apollo threw away the cloth that wrapped him and gained a manly strength, which he immediately used to kill the snake Python. Python was a female dragon that had been birth by the Earth (Gaia) to act as Typhon’s nurse. Hera, who wanted to destroy her rival at all costs, had sent Python to track down Leto when she was about to give birth to Apollo ; hopefully, Poseidon had hidden Leto’s resting place in the waters, meaning Python, unable to find its victim, had to return to its lair on the wooden slopes of Parnassus.

Four days after his birth, Apollo went out in the world, in search of a land where to build his sanctuary. Armed with arrows that Hephaestus had forged for him, he went down from Olympus, crossed Pieria, Euboea and Boeotia, before finally reaching the Crissa valley. The nymph who ruled over this valley, Telphusa, wanted to keep her sole power over the region and so she treacherously advised Apollo to go into the wild gorge of the Parnassus where Python dwelt. When Python saw the god, it attacked, but the young deity killed it with its arrows, in a very long, agonizing, painful death. Once the body stropped writhing and rolling around, Apollo pushed it away disdainfully with his feet, saying “Rot now where you are”. In memory of this battle, the place came to be known as “Pytho” (from the Greek “puthein/pythein”, “to rot”), later changed into the name “Delphi”. As for Telphusa, the god punished her treachery by smothering her under a rock.

In order to purify himself from the soiling that the murder of Python had caused, Apollo exiled himself in Thessaly, in the Tempi Valley. Once the time of expiation for his crime was done, he returned to Delphi crowned with sacred laurel, with an entire cohort of priests who sang triumphant hymns. These events were celebrated at Delphi by the festival of “Septeria”, or the feast of celebration, organized every nine years. A teenager chosen among nobility was playing Apollo. Helped by other young men, he set fire to a wooden cabin meant to symbolize the house of the dragon. At the end of the Septeria, the same young men had to go on a pilgrimage to the Tempe Valley, where they performed expiation rituals, before returning to Delphi bearing sacred laurel.

[katsuko1978]

In the midst of the DP&W brain rot I am currently experiencing, @apollymi and I binge-watched Masters of the Universe Revelation and Revolution this past Sunday. Next episodes when? Next series when??? Where is my resolution goddammit?!?

[lunaticlockwood]

@lostcityofapollymi apollymi: *leans head on shoulder* "Don't burn the marshmallow, babe."

"I think I know what I'm doing ... but hey if you want to drive please be my guest." Tyler indicates the stick with a nod of his head and offers it to his girlfriend.

@lostcityofapollymi

[iincantatorum]

Old Memories & New Doors || Apollymi & Ilyas @worldofsenelfy

Spotting Ilyas once more, Apollymi found herself in a situation where she required assistance with opening the door to her home. With her hands full of bags and books from a long day of teaching at the university, she realized that Ilyas's help would be greatly appreciated. Balancing her friendly approach with the acknowledgment of their shared past, she called out to him:

"Ilyas! It's wonderful to see you again. Would you mind lending me a hand with something? I have a bit of a predicament with these bags and books, and I could really use your help to open the door to my home."

Apollymi made sure to maintain a warm and appreciative tone, emphasizing the shared connection they had developed during their time in Atlantis. Considering Ilyas's resistance to accepting help during their time in Atlantis and his eventual departure, Apollymi approached the subject with caution and sensitivity. She understood that bringing up past events could potentially evoke complex emotions in Ilyas. With empathy and a desire to address the topic respectfully, she broached the subject:

"Ilyas, I hope you know that I've always respected your independence and your choices. I remember how you preferred to face challenges on your own back in Atlantis, and I understand that you eventually decided to leave. I want you to know that I respect your decisions and your autonomy."

Apollymi's words conveyed her understanding of Ilyas's past choices and the importance of honoring his autonomy. She wanted to ensure that he felt heard and acknowledged for the decisions he had made.

She continued, expressing her genuine concern and the desire to reconnect:

"However, Ilyas, seeing you again now brings back memories of our shared past, and it reminds me of the bond we formed back then. I can't help but wonder how you've been all these years and if there's anything I can do to support you. If you're open to it, I'd like to have a conversation about what has transpired since our time in Atlantis and see if there's any way I can be of assistance."

She tried handing one bag to him to hold, before continuing, "but please know that I fully respect your autonomy and any decisions you make. I only offer my support and a listening ear, should you wish to share your experiences or seek assistance. Our connection from the past has stayed with me, and I genuinely want to be there for you, should you ever need it."

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Patience in Persecution

for all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish gar hosos hamartanō anomōs apollymi kai

apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law apollymis anomōs kai hosos hamartanō en nomos

will be judged by the law; krinō doa nomos — Romans 2:12 | Mounce Reverse Interlinear New Testament (MOUNCE) The Mounce Reverse Interlinear New Testament (MOUNCE) Copyright © 2011 by William D. Mounce. All rights reserved worldwide. Cross References: Acts 2:23; Romans 3:19; 1 Corinthians 9:21

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[liberoquorion]

Has anyone thought that Apollo (the greek god) has too close of a similar name as to Abaddon, coined/ meaning 'Destroyer' in reference to the book of Revelations. Like Abaddon's greek name is literally Apollyon. I've done some research on the name Apollyon specifically the meaning behind its Greek translation.

There could be some similarities between each other, like one of Apollo's domains is the plague, and Apollyon in Revelations is described with plague (pestilence in some translations) and locusts rising from hell. In some greek myths, Apollo is said to hold death and plagues. However, there are better greek words that mean destruction or destroyer like 'apoleia'. Sometimes Apollo in texts was linked with the verbs apollymi or apollyo which mean 'destroy'.

It just makes me wonder if Apollo wasn't also attributed with the sun, the arts, archery, healing, prophecy, etc, would he be seen and known as a darker god who could be on a similar level as Hades (as in Revelations both Hades and Death are mentioned with Abaddon). It just completely blows my mind how translations can affect how you view the meaning, the word and the text as whole. Like the choice of to create a greek translation of Abaddon and calling it Apollyon was probably deliberate: a play on words of Apollo, the god, and the verbs for 'destroy' to really hit home how important Abaddon is/was in Revelations specifically chapter 9, the passage about woes on the earth.

Im like yapping, but i just find it so fascinating (and it tots didnt have anything with me reading Revelations today in youth church, instead of listening to the actual passage in Mark we were doing), and also idk if u've noticed but Apollo is kinda like my hyper-fixation. If i could talk about anything for hours, it would be him.

[pyrokineticwarrior]

//ive managed to do some brave things that i've been honestly holding back for weeks out of paralyzing fear, and I am super proud of myself <3 now, since i feel a lot better mentally, gonna work on replies

//also ulysses has been somewhat inactive- and that's my fault, his muse has been waning and i think i'll get to him in a few days... also I have not forgotten apollymi!! gonna make her sideblog soon too, it's on the to do list

[bewitchingbaker]

@lostcityofapollymi

💎

The baker looks up from his skethbook, eyes meeting Apollymi's. An inquisitive tilt of his head soon following. This was the first time he's seen her outside of the bakery if he remembered correctly. She seemed like she would be a friend of Greta's.

"Hey," he greets with a smile. "Nice to meet you."

Upon hearing her question, he rubs his beard with another small tilt of his head.

"Hmm, if I had to pick off of our first interaction I'd say...."

His eyes scan Apollymi's features with a slight adjustment of his glasses.

"Your nose is very very cute," he smiles. "Your whole face is cute honestly."

[ @lostcityofapollymi ]