#apollo*

[moodyseal]

TOApril Day 19 – Haunted

"Am I making you feel sick?"

[murabitto-b]

Apollo (Hades 2)

[devotedtomygods]

THE DIVINE TWINS

DIGITAL

I had time for a quick sketch so here you have the divine twins Apollon and Artemis!✨ And yes I love veiled Artemis don't come at me.

[incorrecthomer]

Apollo: I can and will destroy your bloodline Achilles: Jokes on you dipshit, the bloodline's already ending with me Neoptolemus:

[cupbearers-comic]

positive roles models

alt version

[wtaffy]

Mpreg is canon in the riordanverse.

[darkwitchingflower]

Cabin 7-Apollo- Headcanons

Apollos kids wake up at the butt crack of dawn not because they're the child of the sun god stuff but because every morning Apollo rides his chariot past CHB blasting heavy metal music at a frequency only his children car hear

Karaoke central

Disney, Broadway, westend, any song at all, you name it, they sing it

Any one from any cabin can get free music lessons at any time at all

Each child has their own theme song

The infirmary is hectic because they have such good aim that they throw supplies at eachother when needed

Sometimes a single note is sang and everyone will harmonize with them

They love tarrot cards and have multiple decks

Some Campers will even meet up with the Hecate cabin to do witchcraft

Some kids formed a band together sometimes Chiron let's them play before special occasions and on the last day much to dionysus' annoyance

Other Apollo Campers have made them merch that's sold at the official CHB gift shop

Bows. EVERYWHERE. Where anyone could step on them

Music is never turned down

Hermes cabin tried to turn it down once

After being swarmed by arrows they decided against it

Pros at hiding ear buds with hair or clothes from teachers

They all act embarrassed when Apollo shows up at camp

They all like it though and have a archery competition with him

[chbgigi1]

[lavender--milk]

I had a dream recently, most of it is fuzzy but I remember one clear moment of it. I saw Apollo, and he looked exactly like how I imagine and draw him, except he was wearing this necklace. It was a simple gold chain, with a smooth round piece of amber hanging from it. I think he got it as a gift from someone? I'm not sure what it means but I think I'll try to draw it eventually

[gemsofgreece]

do you know the connection between poppies and ancient greece? all over athens and on acropolis there was alot of poppies- then they were depicted in objects at the national archeological museum aswell (crystal staff with poppy ontop). just curious!

Poppies had a lot of significance for the ancient peoples of the East Mediterranean and the Near East, such as the Sumerians, the Egyptians and the Greeks.

Poppies and poppy seeds had considerable presence in early Greek culture, namely the Mycenaean and Minoan civilizations. A lot of this significance survived to the Classical period and up to the Greco-Roman era. The poppy seeds were used in rituals, worship and medication for their psychoactive effects.

Demeter consumed poppy seeds to sleep and forget the abduction of Persephone. Apollo and Asclepius used them for medicinal purposes. Aphrodite was sometimes imagined with poppies, apparently for its seeds generating sensations of pleasure. Hypnos, Nyx and Morpheus, deities associated with sleep, night and dreams respectively, were also often imagined with poppies in their hands. The drug morphine, produced from the poppy seed, takes its name from Morpheus. The name opium, for the basic drug produced by the poppy's seeds, also comes from the Koine Greek name for it όπιον (ópion), and so does even Afyon Karahishar, the Turkish city in which one third of the global cultivation of poppy takes place. Extra fan fact: there was a double lexical borrowing and Greek opion through some modifications apparently towards ophion -> arabic afyun -> turkish afyon -> then returned back to post-Byzantine / old Modern Greek as αφιόνι (afióni). So, in Greek opium is both όπιο(ν) - ópio(n) and αφιόνι (afióni). Even though the old word όπιο is far more common, there is an interesting verb derived from αφιόνι, αφιονίζομαι (afionízome) which means "I go mad, delirious like I am under the influence of opium". Usually used when someone gets angry to the point of not making sense. You didn't ask for etymology and language lesson lol but my point was to show that evidently, even lingusitically, we see that poppies and the psychoactive, hypnotic and medicinal properties of its seeds were widely used in the Ancient Greek and then Greco-Roman world all the way until and beyond the interactions with the Arabs and the Turks, as the Greek words associated to the products of the poppy have travelled both west and east.

Carving of Demeter holding poppy seeds and wheat, Corinth, Greece photographed by Tiggrx on flickr.

Poppy field in Paros island. From DiscoverGreece.

PS 1: Since I made an etymology analysis for opium, the ancient Greek word for the poppy was μήκων (mekon) but the modern Greek one derives from the Latin papaver instead and is παπαρούνα (paparúna).

PS 2: The red poppy and the poppy that makes the drugs are not the same species but obviously all these exist in Greece so-

[spookspokay]

Apollo from the series Diminish

[dam-bluecookies]

Started off this morning with one of those depressing thoughts. Sometimes I think about Meg growing up and Apollo having to watch that 12 year old kid become a woman and also die :'(

[apollosothertwin]

The sun palace is perfectly clean except for one room where Apollo keeps all of him memories and object that hold some sort of meaning in his relationships with other people. It may or may not be the biggest room in the palace.

[reno-matago]

''Gold is his cloak, and the clasp also; gold the Lycian lyre and bow, and the quiver; gold also the sandals. Apollo is all gold and all wealth; we see this clearly through Pythô. God always beautiful, God always young; no down ever covered her tender cheeks. Her hair spreads the perfumed oil that she distills onto the ground; but the drops are not greasy; no, it is the panacea itself; there, in the city where the dew slides to the ground, there everything is salvation.''

Callimaque - Hymns

Rɪᴊᴋsᴍᴜsᴇᴜᴍ ᴠᴀɴ Oᴜᴅʜᴇᴅᴇɴ • Aᴘᴏʟʟᴏ (ᴡʜɪᴛᴇ ᴍᴀʀʙʟᴇ, Rᴏᴍᴀɴ (50-350 AD)

[daknm]

My little sunshine, Apollo ☀️🫀

[luxapollo]

Non-traditional things I associate with Apollo

.Guitars (awesome stringed instrument I believe He adores)

.Canaries (they're small, yellow, and sing!)

.Modern vaccines (a natural counterpoint to his plague association)

.YouTube (He would /so/ have a YouTube channel)

.Hospitals, modern Western medicine (obvious reasons)

.Courtrooms (This feels more like Zeus and Athena's domain, but Apollo gives me a similar sense of order and justice; He appreciates a well-run courtroom)

.Air purifiers for indoor spaces; respirator masks (effective defenses against airborne diseases such as Covid)

.Angelic aesthetic (who says a pagan deity can't appropriate some Biblical themes, hey?)

.Janitors, other public and private cleaners (they are critical for maintaining a healthy environment)

.Teachers (Apollo is a guide for the youth, just as teachers strive to be)

.Certain cat species: housecats, cheetahs, and lions

.Transmasculinity

.Sunflowers

.The Solarpunk movement/aesthetic (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-07/solarpunk-design-architecture-sustainable-future/103667452 ; https://www.climate-kic.org/solarpunk-speculative-fiction-climate-optimists/)

.Art Nouveau aesthetic

Fellow Apollo devotees, feel free to include your own associations with Apollo!

*Above Solarpunk art credited to Owen Carson