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How dare people people make Apollo look like how majority of the greeks look. It's unacceptable that people who like greek mythology should imagine the way ancient greeks imagined him.

I keep seeing all these aesthetic posts of Apollo as the whitest man alive. And while I adore him with all my might and heart, I can’t stand that anymore. The Theoi look however they want, and while I see him as a blondie with blue or gold eyes because I’m still developing my relationship with him and with the faith, I think it’s healthier to show him as he is in my own culture. So here it is. The Apollo Aesthetic as Indian culture

#If you want to show him as an Indian then go ahead #But there's nothing wrong in showing him with fair skin #He's literally described being on fairer side #And what's the point of Apollo if you alienate him from the culture that worshipped him? #It's one thing to say that you personally see him that way #It's another thing to say that he'll be 'healthier' in a different culture #Like?? #What???

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Talkin to Apollo today.

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Okay cool but don't tag lore olympus posts with greek god tags

You guys have your own tags, just use them

Me, reading Lore Olympus ep. 24:

#At this point I've lost the count of the number of times this has happened

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Athena isn't really the goddess of knowledge or education so, this is for the Muses and Apollo!

Now might be a good time to take a free class about Ancient Greece, just sayin. Get a little distraction. Get a little knowledge. Make Athena proud. Who doesn’t want to look in Athena’s intense but gorgeous grey eyes and see pride staring back at them??? Take the class and earn Athena’s respect! 

#Originators of education

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@fernspell @myrtlerose thank you so much!!!

Does anyone know the sacred days of the theoi? I know that 6th day is sacred to Artemis, 7th to Apollo, 4th to Hermes. I’m interested to know about the rest of them.

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Does anyone know the sacred days of the theoi? I know that 6th day is sacred to Artemis, 7th to Apollo, 4th to Hermes. I'm interested to know about the rest of them.

#hermes #apollo #artemis #zeus #poseidon #hades #hera #hestia #demeter #aphrodite #ares #hephaestus #dionysus #athena #hellenism #hellenismos #dodekatheism

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I don't think prophecy told anything about Zeus being killed. He was simply fated to be overthrown by the son of Metis alone (no one else)

After studying a lot of religions and mythologies, I’ve come to the realization that every mythology/religion has at least one snake that tries to end the world.

(except maybe the Greeks)

((unless you want to use snake as a euphemism for Zeus’s dick))

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Okay first of all, who the heck is calling Persephone the patron goddess of rape/abuse survivor? Is it on tumblr? (I haven't seen anything like that yet) and secondly, what do you mean by english translations suck? Do you have a better translation? If yes, then I'm curious to see it explained. Because in all existing translations, Persephone was forcefully dragged away while she cried for her mother. Also, Demeter didn't bring the gods to their knees, she only caused trouble to humanity. Lastly, you intended this to be a hellenic polytheism post and yet you refer to Hades as a man???

Hellenic polytheism discourse

Demeter did not get violently raped by Poseidon, raise her daughter alone, and bring the gods to their knees when she suspected a man might mistreat her daughter for y'all to say Persephone is the patron goddess of rape/abuse survivors.

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Wouldn't that be Aphrodite or Eros. Hera would give advice when your fiance is trash XD

so if hera is the goddess of marriage, does that make her the deity-equivalent of that friend who gives relationship advice while their boyfriend is literal trash

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This song is Apollo’s blessing. It’s not a secret I don’t care what you all think of Taylor, she’s a huge part of my worship… But this song… I undeniably Apollo.

She refers to her destructive side by way of an arrow… which, as we know, archery is Apollo’s and Artemis’ sibling thing. But unlike his sister, Apollo’s much more destructive and emotionally charged than Artemis who is more protective and provides. 

Apollo has been named in modern worship by many as the god of mental health and recovery due to his associations with health and his destructive side. He is also strongly associated with music in general. 

This song picks up a tale of confession of self destruction with a production that feels like it’s going somewhere even though it really doesn’t by the end of the song, representing aimlessness and pent up energy. It doesn’t quite express a healing journey from beginning to end, it expresses a specific moment in a healing journey where one’s own fault is admitted and a commitment is made to face that rather than run away from it… which is why the production of the song doesn’t run away, though it wants to.

Everything that The Archer represents is represented in Apollo and vise versa. 

Once again, I am so thankful to Apollo for blessing Taylor. I feel like he speaks to me through her… and I’m so glad.

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Wasn't he...ordered by Artemis?? Didn't Artemis order him to do that because Iphigenia was dear to him?

Y’all are so quick to jump on the Hating Agamemnon Train bc of Briseis and    Chryseis and while that’s valid I feel as though we’re skipping over the part where he MURDERED HIS OWN DAUGHTER 

so yea like what the fuck 

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Terracotta volute-krater (vase for mixing wine and water)

Hellenistic, ca. 320–310 BC

Attributed to the Capodimonte Painter

Greek, South Italian, Apulian (Culture)

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Red-figured Kalyx-Krater (Mixing Bowl)

Greek; 4th century BC

Apulia, South Italy

Terracotta

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

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Archaistic relief showing five divinities: Zeus, Hera, Athena, Aphrodite, and Apollo

Roman; Augustan, 25 BC–AD 14

Marble (apparently Thasian)

Yale University Art Gallery

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From left to right:

Hestia, Hermes, Aphrodite, Ares, Demeter, Hephaestus, Hera, Poseidon, Athena, Zeus, Artemis, Apollo.

Procession of Twelve Gods and Goddesses

Greek; 1st century BC–AD 1st century (Hellenistic)

Pentelic marbleItaly, Taranto (Tarentum) (Place of Discovery)

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No. Not at all.

Our modern concept of love and sexuality doesn't apply to a goddess coming from ancient times, which had different opinions of love. She's not the goddess of sexuality, she's the goddess of sexual desire. For Ancient Greeks, love was of 7 types, and Aphrodite was the goddess of those kind of loves. Not the goddess of no sex. In fact, she screws up a guy who decides not to have sex... So...

hey @ the ancient greeks if aphrodite is the goddess of all aspects of sexuality does that mean shes the goddess of aces too please respond-

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He is beauty. He is grace. He'll shoot an arrow in your face. 💖

Apollo Pythios, the archer and the prophet