Hermes was born on Mount Cyllene in Arcadia. The story is told in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes. His mother, Maia, had been secretly impregnated by Zeus, in a secret affair. Maia wrapped the infant in blankets but Hermes escaped while she was asleep. Hermes ran to Thessaly, where Apollo was grazing his cattle. The infant Hermes stole a number of his cows and took them to a cave in the woods near Pylos, covering their tracks. In the cave, he found a tortoise and killed it, then removed the insides. He used one of the cow's intestines and the tor ...

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Apollo, Apollo - Worship, Apollo - Etymology of the name, Apollo - Apollo in art, Apollo - Appellations, Apollo - Birth, Apollo - Youth, Apollo - Apollo and Admetus, Apollo - Apollo During the Trojan War, Apollo - Niobe, Apollo - Apollo's romantic life and children, Apollo - Heterosexual relationships, Apollo - Homosexual relationships, Apollo - Apollo and the Birth of Hermes, Apollo - Other stories, Apollo - Musical contests, Apollo - Miscellaneous, Apollo - Spoken-word myths - audio files, Apollo - Apollo in popular culture

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When Hera, the most conservative of goddesses — for she had the most to lose in changes to the order of nature — discovered that Leto was pregnant and that Zeus was the father, she realized that the offspring would cement the new order. She was powerless to stop the flow of events, but she banned Leto from giving birth on "terra firma", on the mainland, or any island at sea, or any place under the sun (Hyginus, Fabulae, 140). Some mythographers hinted that Leto came down from the land of the Hyperboreans in the guise of a she-wolf ...

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Leto, Leto - Birth of Artemis and Apollo, Leto - Witnesses at the birth of Apollo

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Apollo (Greek: Απόλλων, Apóllōn; Απελλων) is a god in Greek and Roman mythology, the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin of Artemis (goddess of the hunt), one of the most important and many-sided of the Olympian divinities. In later times he became in part confused or equated with Helios, god of the sun, and his sister similarly equated with Selene, goddess of the moon in religious contexts. But Apollo and Helios/Sol remained quite separate beings in literary/mythological texts. In Etruscan mythology, he was know ...

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Apollo - Heterosexual relationships Apollo - Homosexual relationships
Apollo - Apollo and the Birth of Hermes Apollo - Other stories
Apollo - Musical contests Apollo - Miscellaneous
Apollo - Spoken-word myths - audio files Apollo - Apollo in popular culture

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Asclepius, god of medicine Leto, mother of Apollo and Artemis Pan, shepherd god Nymphs Anatolian deities In Greek mythology Lētō' (Greek: Λητώ, Lato in Dorian Greek, the "hidden one") is a daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe, and in the Olympian scheme of things, Zeus is the father of her twins, Apollo and Artemis. Still, Leto is scarcely to be conceived apart from being pregnant and finding a suitab ...

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Leto - Birth of Artemis and Apollo Leto - Witnesses at the birth of Apollo

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Events February 21 - Athanasius returns to Alexandria. October 22 - The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside of Antioch is destroyed in a mysterious fire. Earthquake in Nicaea Births Deaths Dorotheus of Tyre, bishop and martyr Category: 362 ...

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The island of Delos (Greek: Δήλος, Dhilos), isolated in the centre of the roughly circular ring of islands called the Cyclades, near Mykonos, had a position as a holy sanctuary for a millennium before Olympian Greek mythology made it the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis. As a cult centre Delos had an importance that its natural resources could never have offered. As Leto, searching for a birthing-place for Apollo, addressed the island: "`Delos, if you would be willing to be the abode of my son Phoebus A ...

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54 - Events. October 13 - Roman Empire emperor Claudius dies after being poisoned by Agrippina, his wife and niece. Nero succeeds Claudius as emperor of Roman Empire Patriarch Onesimus succeeds Stachys the Apostle as Patriarch of Constantinople. Judea is returned piecemeal to Agrippa I's son Marcus Julius Agrippa between 48 and 54. Paul of Tarsus begins his third mission. Apollos, a later assistant of Paul, is converted to Christianity in Ephesus Maiden ...

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1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). 1934 - Events. January 1 - Alcatraz becomes a federal prison. January 1 - Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring." January 7 - First Flash Gordon comic strip is published. January 10 - Execution of Marinus van der Lubbe January 24 - Einstein visits White House January 26 - The Apollo The ...

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1934 - Events
1934 - May-June 1934 - July-September 1934 - October-December 1934 - Unknown dates
1934 - Births
1934 - January 1934 - February 1934 - March-April 1934 - May-August 1934 - September-December 1934 - Unknown dates
1934 - Deaths 1934 - Nobel Prizes

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In Greek mythology Artemis (World Book «AHR tuh mihs») (Greek Άρτεμις) is the daughter of Zeus and Leto and the twin sister of Apollo. In later times she was conflated with the goddess Diana of Roman mythology. In Etruscan mythology, she took the form of Artume. Artemis - Worship. She was the virgin moon goddess of the hunt, wild animals, healing, wilderness, chastity, and childbirth. She was worshipped as a fertility/childbirth goddess in many places since, according to some myths, s ...

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Artemis - Worship
Artemis - Diana Artemis - Artemis in art Artemis - Appellations
Artemis - Birth Artemis - Childhood Artemis - Men
Artemis - Actaeon Artemis - Adonis Artemis - Siproites Artemis - Orion
Artemis - Other stories
Artemis - Callisto Artemis - Agamemnon and Iphigenia Artemis - Niobe Artemis - Taygete Artemis - Otus and Ephialtes Artemis - The Meleagrids Artemis - Chione Artemis - Atalanta and Oeneus
Artemis - Artemis in Neopaganism

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Manto was the daughter of the prophet Tiresias and mother of Mopsus. During the War of the Epigoni, Manto was brought to Delphi as a war prize. Apollo sent her to Colophon to find an oracle devoted to him. She married Rhacius and gave birth to Mopsus (although by some accounts Apollo was the father). In Roman myth, she went to Italy and gave birth to Ocnus (father: Tiberinus), who founded Mantua (cur: Mantova) and named it after her. ...

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Manto Greek mythology, Manto Greek mythology - Daughter of Tiresias, Manto Greek mythology - Daughter of Heracles

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Dionysus (Dionysian): intoxication, celebration of nature, cruelty, music, dance, pain, individuality dissolved and hence destroyed, wholeness of existence, orgiastic passion, dissolution of all boundaries, excess, human being(s) as the work and glorification of art, destruction. Apollo (Apollinian or Apollonian): the dream state, principium individuationis (principle of individuation), plastic (visual) arts, beauty, stint to formed boundaries, individuality, reason, celebration of appearance/illusion, human beings as artists (or media of art's manifestati ...

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The Birth of Tragedy, The Birth of Tragedy - The book, The Birth of Tragedy - The Two Aesthetic Principles, The Birth of Tragedy - Reception, The Birth of Tragedy - Quotes

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In the historical period, Poseidon was often referred to by the epithets Enosichthon, Seischthon and Ennosigaios, all meaning "earth-shaker" and referring to his role in causing earthquakes. Poseidon was a major civic god of several cities: in Athens, he was second only to Athena in importance; while in Corinth and many cities of Magna Graecia he was the chief god of the polis. According to Pausanias, Poseidon was one of the caretakers of the Oracle at Delphi before Olympian Apollo took it over. Apollo and ...

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Poseidon, Poseidon - Prehistory, Poseidon - Worship, Poseidon - Role in society, Poseidon - In art, Poseidon - In Rome, Poseidon - Myth, Poseidon - Birth and childhood, Poseidon - Lovers, Poseidon - Other stories, Poseidon - Consorts/children, Poseidon - Spoken-word myths - audio files

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Hermes was born on Mount Cyllene in Arcadia to Maia. As the story is told in the Homeric Hymn, the Hymn to Hermes, Maia was a nymph, but Greeks generally applied the name to a midwife or a wise and gentle old woman, so the nymph appears to have been an ancient one, one of the Pleiades taking refuge in a cave of Arcadia. The god was precocious: on the day of his birth, by midday he had invented the lyre, using the shell of a tortoise, and by nightfall he had rustled the immortal cattle of Apollo. For the first Olympian sacrifice, the taboos surrounding the sacred kine of Apollo had to be transgressed, and the trickster god of ...

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Hermes, Hermes - Blue Oyster Cult, Hermes - Hermai, Hermes - Hermes' iconography, Hermes - Birth, Hermes - Hermēs' offspring, Hermes - Abderus, Hermes - Autolycus, Hermes - Hermaphroditus, Hermes - Priapus, Hermes - Other stories, Hermes - Herse/Aglaulus/Pandrosus, Hermes - Argus/Io, Hermes - Other roles, Hermes - Hermes in Islamic tradition

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In his book The Birth of Tragedy, the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche contrasted Dionysus with the god Apollo as a symbol of the basic, unrestrained life force versus the world of reason, form and beauty represented by the latter. In contrast, the Russian poet and philosopher Vyacheslav Ivanov elaborated the theory of Dionysianism, which traces the roots of literary art in general and the art of tragedy in particular to ancient Dionysian mysteries. His views were expressed in the treatises The Hellenic Religion of the Suffering God (1904), ...

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Dionysus, Dionysus - Worship, Dionysus - Bacchanalia, Dionysus - Appellations, Dionysus - Birth, Dionysus - Childhood, Dionysus - Midas, Dionysus - Other stories, Dionysus - Consorts/Children, Dionysus - Parallels with Christianity, Dionysus - Modern interpretations, Dionysus - Dionysus in Neopaganism, Dionysus - names with the origin Dionysus, Dionysus - Bibliography

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Hera - Echo. For a time, a nymph named Echo had the job of distracting Hera from Zeus' affairs by incessantly talking. When Hera discovered the deception, she cursed Echo to only speak the words of others (hence our modern word "echo"). Hera - Leto and Artemis/Apollo. When Hera discovered that Leto was pregnant and that Hera's husband, Zeus, was the father, she banned Leto from giving birth on "terra-firma", or the mainland, or any island at sea. She found the floating island o ...

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Hera, Hera - Etymology and Pre-History, Hera - Cult, Hera - Hera and children, Hera - Hera the nemesis of Heracles, Hera - Hera's jealousies, Hera - Echo, Hera - Leto and Artemis/Apollo, Hera - Callisto/Arcas, Hera - Semele/Dionysus, Hera - Io, Hera - Lamia, Hera - Other Stories Involving Hera, Hera - Cydippe, Hera - Tiresias, Hera - Chelone, Hera - The Iliad, Hera - The Golden Fleece, Hera - The Metamorphoses, Hera - Hera in Neopaganism

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Hera liked to eat cows. Hera presides over the right arrangements of the marriage and is the archetype of the union in the marriage bed, but she is not notable as a mother. The legitimate offspring of her union with Zeus is Ares, Hebe (the goddess of youth), Eris (the goddess of discord) and Eileithyia (goddess of childbirth). Hera was jealous of Zeus' giving birth to Athena without recourse to her (actually with Metis), so she gave birth to Hephaestus without him. (An alternate version discounts this and says Zeus and Hera were both parents ...

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Hera, Hera - Etymology and Pre-History, Hera - Cult, Hera - Hera and children, Hera - Hera the nemesis of Heracles, Hera - Hera's jealousies, Hera - Echo, Hera - Leto and Artemis/Apollo, Hera - Callisto/Arcas, Hera - Semele/Dionysus, Hera - Io, Hera - Lamia, Hera - Other Stories Involving Hera, Hera - Cydippe, Hera - Tiresias, Hera - Chelone, Hera - The Iliad, Hera - The Golden Fleece, Hera - The Metamorphoses, Hera - Hera in Neopaganism

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Hera was the enemy of Heracles, the hero who, more than even Perseus, Cadmus or Theseus, introduced the Olympian ways in Greece (Ruck and Staples 1994). When Alcmene was pregnant with Heracles, Hera tried to prevent the birth from occurring. She was foiled by Galanthis, her servant, who told Hera that she had already delivered the baby. Hera turned her into a weasel. While Heracles was still an infant, Hera sent two serpents, to kill him as he lay in his cot, the mythographers interpreted the event. Heracles throttled a single snake i ...

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Hera, Hera - Etymology and Pre-History, Hera - Cult, Hera - Hera and children, Hera - Hera the nemesis of Heracles, Hera - Hera's jealousies, Hera - Echo, Hera - Leto and Artemis/Apollo, Hera - Callisto/Arcas, Hera - Semele/Dionysus, Hera - Io, Hera - Lamia, Hera - Other Stories Involving Hera, Hera - Cydippe, Hera - Tiresias, Hera - Chelone, Hera - The Iliad, Hera - The Golden Fleece, Hera - The Metamorphoses, Hera - Hera in Neopaganism

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1967 - January. January 3 - Jack Ruby, American killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (b. 1911) January 4 - Donald Campbell, English water and land speed record seeker (b. 1921) January 17 - Barney Ross, American boxer (b. 1909) January 19 - Kazimierz Funk, Polish biochemist (b. 1884) January 27 - Crew of Apollo 1 Edward White (b. 1930) Gus Grissom (b. 1926) Roger Chaffee (b. 1935) January 27 - Alphonse Juin, Marshal of France (b. 1888) January 31 - Eddie Tolan, Am ...

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Apollo (Greek) Also called Phoebus (the pure, shining); son of Zeus and Leto (Latona), the polar region or night, and twin brother of Artemis (Diana). His birth shows the emanation of light from darkness. One of the most popular gods of Greek mythology, he is primarily the god of light, and is also associated with the sun, hence a giver of life, light, and wisdom to the earth and humanity.

Apollo and Artemis are the mystic sun and the higher occult moon (SD 2:771). Apollo stands for order, justice, law, and purification by penance. His attribute as a punisher of evil is shown by his bow, with which as an infant he slew Python. He is the deity who wards off evil; the healer, father of Aesculapius and often identified with him; and the god of divination, associated especially with the Oracle at Delphi.

The other principal seat of his worship was at Delos, his birthplace. He was also the patron of song and music, of new civic foundations, and protector of crops and flocks. His lyre is the sacred heptachord or septenary, seen in the sevenfold manifestations of the Logos in the universe and man; he is also the sun with its seven planets. He answers in some respects to the Hindu Indra and Karttikeya and in others to the Christian archangel Michael; Janus was the Roman god of light.

(See also: Apollo, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)