Apollo Belvedere, restored Roman copy of the Greek original
attributed to Leochares, 4th century BC; in the Vatican
Museum, Rome Alinari--Art Resource/EB Inc.
From the time of Homer
onward Apollo was the god of divine distance, who sent or
threatened from afar; the god who made men aware of their own
guilt and purified them of it; who presided
over religious law and the constitutions of cities; who
communicated to man through prophets and oracles his knowledge of the future and the will of his father,
Zeus
Distance, death, terror, and awe were summed up in his
symbolic bow;
a gentler side of his nature, however, was shown in his
other attribute, the lyre, which proclaimed the
joy of communion with Olympus (the home of the gods -
through music, poetry, and dance.
The Twanging of the bowstring to cause
the arrow to "sing" into your heart is the basis of the Greek
"external melody." The Greek word psallo therefore is a
very destructive word by which the false gods wound your
heart beyond repair. However, Christian singing and melody
is "in the heart or mind" and not in the HEART which pumps
blood until the Seekers get you.
Homeric Hymn (Abaddon Apollo Apollyon)
III. TO APOLLO (546
lines)
TO DELIAN APOLLO --
1-18 - I will remember
and not be unmindful of Apollo who shoots afar. As he goes through the
house of Zeus, the gods tremble before him
and all spring up from their seats when he draws near, as
he bends his bright
bow. But Leto alone stays by the side of
Zeus who
delights in thunder; and then she unstrings his bow, and closes
his quiver, and takes his archery from his strong
shoulders in her hands and hangs them on a golden peg
against a pillar of his father"s house.
Then she leads him to a seat and
makes him sit: and the Father gives him nectar in a golden cup welcoming
his dear son, while the other gods make him sit down
there, and queenly Leto rejoices because she bare a mighty son and an archer.
Rejoice, blessed
Leto, for you bare glorious children, the lord Apollo and Artemis who delights in arrows; her in Ortygia, and him
in rocky Delos, as you rested against the great mass
of the Cynthian hill hard by a palm-tree by the
streams of Inopus.
Artemis was the daughter of Zeus
and Leto and the twin sister of Apollo
19-29 - How, then, shall I sing of you who in all ways are a
worthy theme of
song?
For
everywhere, O Phoebus (Abaddon Apollo Apollyon), the whole range of song is
fallen to you,
both over the mainland that rears heifers and over the isles.
All mountain-peaks and high headlands of lofty hills and
rivers flowing out to the deep and beaches sloping
seawards and havens of the sea are your delight.
Shall I sing how at the first Leto bare you to be the joy of
men, as she rested against Mount Cynthus in that rocky
isle, in sea- girt Delos -- while on either hand a dark
wave rolled on landwards driven by shrill winds -- whence
arising you rule
over
all mortal men?
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30-50 - Among those who
are in Crete, and in the township of Athens, and in the isle of Aegina
and Euboea, famous for ships, in Aegae and Eiresiae and
Peparethus near the sea, in Thracian Athos and Pelion"s
towering heights and Thracian Samos and the shady hills of
Ida, in Scyros and Phocaea and the high hill of Autocane and fair-lying Imbros and smouldering Lemnos and rich Lesbos, home of Macar, the son of
Aeolus, and Chios, brightest of all the isles that lie in
the sea, and craggy Mimas and the heights of Corycus and
gleaming Claros and the sheer hill of Aesagea and watered
Samos and the steep heights of Mycale, in Miletus and Cos,
the city of Meropian men, and steep Cnidos and windy
Carpathos, in Naxos and Paros and rocky Rhenaea --
so far roamed
Leto in travail with the god who shoots afar, to see if any land
would be willing to make a dwelling for her son. But they
greatly trembled and feared, and none, not even the
richest of them, dared receive Phoebus, until queenly Leto
set foot on Delos and uttered winged words and asked her:
51-61 - "Delos, if you would be willing to
be the abode of my son "Phoebus Apollo and make him a rich temple
--; for no
other will
touch you, as you will find:
and I think
you will never be rich in oxen and sheep, nor bear vintage nor yet
produce plants abundantly.
But if you have the temple of far-shooting Apollo, all men will bring you
hecatombs and gather here, and incessant savour of rich
sacrifice will always arise,
and you will feed
those who dwell in you from the hand of strangers; for truly your own soil is not rich."
62-82 - So spake Leto. And Delos rejoiced and
answered and said: "Leto, most glorious daughter of great
Coeus, joyfully would I receive your child the
far-shooting lord; for it is all too true that I am
ill-spoken of among men, whereas thus I should become very
greatly honoured.
But this saying I fear, and I
will not hide it from you, Leto.
They say that Apollo will be one that is very haughty and will greatly lord it among gods and men all over the
fruitful earth.
Therefore, I greatly fear in heart and spirit that as soon as
he sets the light of the sun, he will scorn this
island
for truly I have but a hard, rocky soil -- and overturn me and thrust me down with
his feet in the depths of the sea; then will the great
ocean wash deep above my head for ever, and he will go to another land such as will please him,
there to make his temple and wooded groves.
So, many-footed creatures of the sea will
make their lairs in me and black seals their dwellings
undisturbed, because I lack people. Yet if you will but
dare to sware a great oath, goddess,
that here first he will build a glorious temple to be an oracle for men,
then let him afterwards make temples and wooded groves amongst all men; for surely he will be
greatly renowned.
83-88 - So said Delos.
And Leto sware the great oath of the
gods: "Now hear this, Earth and wide Heaven
above, and dropping water of Styx (this is the strongest
and most awful oath for the blessed gods),
surely Phoebus shall
have here his fragrant altar and precinct, and you he
shall honour above all."
89-101 - Now when Leto
had sworn and ended her oath, Delos
was very glad at the birth of the far-shooting lord.
But Leto was racked nine days and nine nights with pangs beyond wont. And
there were with her all the chiefest of the goddesses, Dione and Rhea and Ichnaea and Themis and
loud-moaning Amphitrite and the other deathless goddesses
save white-armed Hera (Juno), who sat in the halls of cloud-gathering Zeus.
Only Eilithyia, goddess of sore travail,
had not heard of Leto"s trouble, for she sat on the top of Olympus
beneath golden clouds by white-armed Hera"s contriving,
who kept her close through envy, because Leto with the lovely tresses
was soon to bear a son faultless and strong.
102-114 - But the
goddesses sent out Iris from the well-set isle to bring Eilithyia, promising her a great
necklace strung with golden threads, nine cubits long. And
they bade Iris call her aside from white-armed Hera, lest
she might afterwards turn her from coming with her words.
When swift Iris, fleet of foot as the wind, had heard all
this, she set to run; and quickly finishing all the
distance she came to the home of the gods, sheer Olympus,
and forthwith called Eilithyia out from the hall to the
door and spoke winged words to her, telling her all as the
goddesses who dwell on Olympus had bidden her. So she
moved the heart of Eilithyia in her dear breast; and they
went their way, like shy wild-doves in their going.
115-122 - And as soon as
Eilithyia the goddess of sore travail set foot on Delos, the pains of birth seized Leto, and she longed to bring
forth; so she cast her arms about a palm tree and kneeled
on the soft meadow while the earth laughed for joy
beneath.
Then the child leaped forth to the light, and all the
goddesses washed you purely and cleanly with sweet
water, and swathed you in a white garment of fine
texture, new-woven, and fastened a golden band about
you.
123-130 - Now Leto did
not give Apollo, bearer of the golden blade, her breast; but Themis duly poured nectar and
ambrosia with her divine hands:
and Leto was
glad because she had borne a strong son and an archer.
But as soon as you had tasted that divine heavenly food, O Phoebus, you could no
longer then be held by golden cords nor
confined with bands, but all their ends were
undone.
Those Born Today Will
Rule Today by (Abaddon Apollo Apollyon)
Forthwith Phoebus Apollo spoke out among the
deathless goddesses:
131-132 - The lyre and the curved bow shall ever be dear to me,
and I will declare to men the unfailing will of Zeus."
133-139 - So said
Phoebus, the long-haired
god who
shoots afar and began to walk upon the wide-pathed earth;
and all
goddesses
were amazed at him. Then with gold all Delos was laden, beholding the child of Zeus and Leto,
for joy because the god chose her above the islands and
shore to make his dwelling in her: and she loved him yet
more in her heart, and blossomed as does a mountain-top
with woodland flowers.
and they had hair as the hair of
women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. Rev
9:8
140-164 - And
you, O lord
Apollo,
god of the silver
bow,
shooting afar, now walked on craggy Cynthus, and now kept wandering
about the island and the people in them. Many are your
temples and wooded
groves,
and all peaks and towering bluffs of lofty mountains and
rivers flowing to the sea are dear to you, Phoebus,
yet in Delos do you most delight your
heart; for there the long robed Ionians gather in your honour with
their children and shy wives: mindful, they delight you with boxing and dancing and song, so often as they hold their gathering.
A man would say that
they were deathless and unageing if he should then come
upon the Ionians so met together. For he would see the
graces of them all, and would be pleased in heart gazing
at the men and well- girded women with their swift ships
and great wealth.
And there is this
great wonder besides -- and its renown shall never
perish -- the girls of Delos, hand-maidens of the Far-shooter;
for when
they have praised
Apollo first, and also Leto and Artemis who delights in arrows,
they sing a strain-telling of men and women of past
days, and charm the tribes of men.
Also they can
imitate the tongues of all men and their clattering speech:
each would say that he himself were singing, so close to truth is
their sweet song.
These were
"barbarians" speaking in tongues in 1 Cor 14.
His half-brother, Hermes
(Mercury) was similar:
And when the purpose
of great Zeus was fixed in heaven, she was delivered
and a notable thing was come to pass. For then she
bare a son, of many shifts, blandly cunning, a robber, a cattle driver, a bringer of dreams, a watcher by night, a thief at the gates, one who was soon to
show forth wonderful deeds among the deathless gods.
Born with the
dawning, at mid-day he played on the lyre, and in the evening he stole the cattle of far-shooting Apollo on the fourth day of
the month; for on that day queenly Maia bare him.
So soon as he had
leaped from his mother's heavenly womb, he lay not
long waiting in his holy cradle, but he sprang up
and sought
the oxen of Apollo.
165-178 - And now may
Apollo be favourable and Artemis; and farewell all you
maidens. Remember me in after time whenever any one of men
on earth, a stranger who has seen and suffered much, comes
here and asks of you:
"Whom think ye, girls, is the sweetest singer that comes here, and in
whom do you most delight?" Then answer, each and all,
with one voice: "He is a blind man, and dwells in rocky
Chios: his lays are evermore
supreme." As for me, I will carry your renown as far as I roam over the
earth to the well-placed this thing is true. And I will
never cease to praise far-shooting Apollo, god of the
silver bow, whom rich-haired Leto bare.
TO PYTHIAN APOLLO --
(Abaddon
Apollo Apollyon)
179-181
- O Lord, Lycia is yours and lovely Maeonia and Miletus,
charming city by the sea, but over wave-girt Delos you greatly reign your own
self.
182-206 - Leto"s (mother of Apollo) -
all-glorious son goes to rocky Pytho, playing upon his hollow lyre, clad in divine, perfumed garments; and at the touch of the
golden key his lyre sings sweet.
The "familiar spirit" of the witch
of Endor was a musical echo chamber:
- Owb (h178) obe;
from the same as 1 (appar. through the idea
of prattling a father's name); prop. a
mumble, i. e. a water-skin (from its
hollow sound); hence a necromancer
(ventriloquist, as from a jar): - bottle, familiar
spirit.
-
- The
sign or MARK of the necromancer is--
-
- Owth (h226) oth;
prob. from 225 (in the sense of appearing);
a signal (lit. or fig.), as a flag, beacon,
monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etc.: -
mark, miracle, (en-) sign, token.
-
- The
Sumerians originally believed in only
one God, but after 3500 B.C. they
developed various forms of polytheism...
The government of Sumeria was really a
theocracy, for the ruler was
also the chief priest. The other
priests were divided into three classes,
namely, the singers, the magicians, and the soothsayers. (Hyma,
Alberty, Ancient History, Barnes and
Noble, P. 14)
But when ye
pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen
do: for they think that they shall be heard
for their much speaking. Mt.6:7
The Tibetans have their
prayer wheel. Just spin the wheel and the
prayer is produced by a "mechanical instrument
of prayer." The Witch of Endor had her owb:
just mumble a magical sound into it and it
echoed over and over. Jesus condemned empty
speaking--
- "The vb.
Battologeo in Mt 6:7 (say
not the same thing over and over
again) refers to the superstition
that the repeated utterance of a word will
secure one's wish." (Int. Std. Bible Ency.,
Magic, p. 1964).
-
- battologeo (g945)
bat-tol-og-eh'-o; from Battoås , (a proverbial
stammerer) and 3056; to stutter, i.e.
(by impl.) to prate tediously: - use vain
repetitions
The
SOUNDING BRASS of 1 Cor. 13 is an EMPTY
- Chalkos (g5475)
khal-kos'; perh. from 5465 through the idea
of hollowing out as a
vessel (this metal being chiefly used
for that purpose); copper (the substance, or
some implement or coin made of it): - brass,
money.
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Thence, swift as thought, he speeds from earth to Olympus, to the house of Zeus, to join the gathering of
the other
gods:
then straightway the undying gods think
only of the lyre and song,
and all the Muses together, voice sweetly answering voice,
hymn the unending gifts the
gods enjoy
and the sufferings of men,
all that
they endure at the hands of the deathless gods,
and how they live witless and helpless and
........... cannot find healing for death or defence
against old age.
Muse
Greek MOUSA, OR MOISA, Latin MUSA, in Greco-Roman religion
and mythology, any of a group of sister goddesses
of obscure but ancient origin, the chief centre of
whose cult was Mount
Helicon in
Boeotia, Greece. Allegedly they came from Pieria in Macedonia, but this attribution may be a
misunderstanding, the real
Pieria being somewhere in Greece. Very little is
known of their cult, but they had a festival every
four years at Thespiae, near Helicon, and a contest (Museia), presumably--or at least at
first--in singing and playing.
They probably
were originally the patron goddesses of poets (who in early times were also musicians, providing their own accompaniments)
Calliope: Muse of heroic or epic poetry
(often holding a writing tablet).
Clio: Muse of history (often holding a
scroll).
Erato: Muse
of lyric and love
poetry (often playing a lyre).
Euterpe: Muse of music or flutes
(often playing flutes).
Melpomene: Muse of tragedy (often holding a
tragic mask).
Polymnia: Muse of sacred poetry or of the
mimic art (often shown with a pensive look).
Terpsichore: Muse of dancing and choral
song (often shown
dancing and holding a lyre).
Thalia: Muse of comedy
(often holding a comic mask).
Urania: Muse of astronomy
(often holding a globe).
Meanwhile the
rich-tressed Graces [godesses of fertility] and cheerful Seasons dance with Harmonia [Greek: daughter of Ares and
Aphrodite], and
Hebe and Aphrodite, daughter of Zeus, holding each other
by the wrist. And among them sings one, not mean nor puny, but
tall to look upon and enviable in mien, Artemis [sister of Apolo, temple in Ephesus] who delights in arrows, sister of Apollo.
Among them sport Ares [Greek, Roman Mars] and the keen-eyed Slayer of
Argus,
while Apollo plays his lyre stepping high and featly
and a radiance shines around him, the gleaming of his feet and close-woven
vest.
And they, even gold-tressed Leto and wise Zeus, rejoice in their great
hearts as they watch their dear son playing among the undying gods.
Commentary [194] For the
connexion of the Charites [Graces]with Aphrodite see n. on h.
Aphr. 61, and for the Horae n. on vi. 5. With the line cf.
Panyas. ap. Athen. ii. 38 Charites t' elachon kai eüphrones Hôrai; Plat. Symp.vii.
5(dance
of Charites, Horae, and Nymphs). For the conjunction of
Charites and Muses cf. Theogony 64 f., Sappho fr. 22 deute nun, abrai Charites kallikomoi te Mousai. The Charites are associated with Apollo in literature ( Pind.
Ol14. 10) and art ( Paus.ix.
35.
1, of the Delian Apollon).
Of the king of Tyre
as a type of Lucifer:
Son of man, take up a
lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him,
Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the sum, full
of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Eze 28:12
Thou hast
been in Eden the garden of God;
every
precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond,
the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire,
the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the
workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes
was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast
created. Eze.28:13
Thou art the
anointed cherub that covereth;
and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the
midst of the stones of fire. Eze 28:14
By the multitude
of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee
with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I
will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering
cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Eze
28:16
207-228 - How then shall
I sing of you -- though in all ways
you are a worthy theme for song? Shall I sing of you as wooer and in the fields of love,
how you went wooing
the daughter of Azan along with god-like Ischys the son of
well-horsed Elatius, or with Phorbas
sprung from Triops, or with Ereutheus, or with Leucippus
and the wife of Leucippus....
missing data...
Apollo Now Looks
For a place to deliver oracles through his ministers
An Oracle was like a
modern mega-church. It had a swimming pool,
gymnasium, theater, counselors, merchants, book sellers,
poem writters, a female who delivered messages from the
"gods" and someone to take up the "collections." It was a
corrupt commercial institution like a wolf claiming to be
religious.
[Because Olympus is the
oracle of Zeus, Apollo has to find another place and
ultimate dominates]
....you on foot, he with
his chariot, yet he fell not short of
Triops. Or shall I sing how at the first you went about the earth
seeking a place of oracle for men, O far-shooting Apollo?
To Pieria first you went down from Olympus and passed by sandy Lectus
and Enienae and through the land of the Perrhaebi.
Soon you came to Iolcus and set foot on Cenaeum in Euboea, famed for ships: you
stood in the Lelantine plain, but it pleased not your heart to make a
temple there and wooded groves. From there you crossed
the Euripus, far-shooting Apollo, and went up the green,
holy hills, going on to Mycalessus and grassy-bedded
Teumessus,
and so came to the
wood-clad abode of Thebes; for as yet no man lived in holy Thebe,
nor were there tracks or ways about Thebe"s
wheat-bearing plain as yet.
(The building of the
celebrated seven-gated wall of Thebes is usually
attributed to Amphion, who is said to have charmed the stones into moving by the playing of his lyre.)
229-238 - And further
still you went, O far-shooting Apollo, and came to Onchestus, Poseidon"s bright grove: there the new- broken cold
distressed with drawing the trim chariot gets spirit
again, and
the skilled driver springs from his car and goes on his
way.
Then the horses for a
while rattle the empty car, being rid of guidance; and
if they break the chariot in the woody grove, men look after the
horses, but tilt the chariot and leave it there; for
this was the rite from the very first. And the drivers pray
to the lord of the shrine; but the chariot falls to the
lot of the god.
And they had
breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the
sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of
many horses running to battle. Rev 9:9
239-243 - Further yet you went, O far-shooting
Apollo, and reached next Cephissus" sweet stream which pours forth its sweet-
flowing water from Lilaea, and crossing over it, O worker
from afar, you passed many-towered Ocalea and reached
grassy Haliartus.
Sorry, this territory
is taken
244-253 - Then you went
towards Telphusa: and there the pleasant
place seemed
fit for making a temple and wooded grove. You came very near and
spoke to her: "Telphusa, here I am minded to make a
glorious temple, an oracle for men, and hither they will always
bring perfect hecatombs, [large-scale sacrifices of retainers who
followed their king and queen to the grave]
both those who live in
rich Peloponnesus and those of Europe and all the
wave-washed isles, coming to seek oracles.
........... And I will deliver to them all
counsel
that cannot fail,
........... giving answer in my rich temple."
254-276 - So said Phoebus Apollo, and laid out all the
foundations throughout, wide and very long. But when Telphusa saw this, she was angry in heart and
spoke, saying: "Lord Phoebus, worker from afar,
I will speak a word of
counsel to your heart, since you
are minded to make here a glorious temple to be an
oracle for men who will always bring hither perfect
hecatombs for you; yet I will speak out, and do you lay
up my words in your heart.
The trampling of swift horses and the sound of mules
watering at my sacred springs will always irk you, and
men will like better to gaze at the well-made chariots and stamping, swift-footed horses than
at your great
temple
and the many treasures that are within.
But if you will be moved
by me -- for you, lord, are stronger and mightier than I,
and your strength is very great -- build at Crisa (close to Delphi) below the glades of Parnassus (Mountain): there no bright chariot
will clash, and there will be no noise of swift-footed
horses near your well-built altar.
But so the glorious
tribes of men will bring gifts to you as Iepaeon ("Hail-
Healer"), and you will receive with delight rich
sacrifices from the people dwelling round about."
So said Telphusa,
that she
alone,
and not the Far-Shooter, should
have renown there; and she persuaded the Far-Shooter.
277-286 - Further yet
you went, far-shooting Apollo, until you came to the town
of the presumptuous Phlegyae who dwell on this earth in a lovely glade
near the Cephisian lake, caring not for Zeus.
And thence you went
speeding swiftly to the mountain ridge, and came to Crisa beneath snowy Parnassus, a foothill turned towards
the west: a cliff hangs over if from above, and a
hollow, rugged glade runs under. There the lord Phoebus
Apollo resolved to make his lovely temple, and thus he
said:
Location, Location,
Location (Three keys to success in business)
287-293 - In this place
I am minded to build a glorious temple to be an oracle for men, and here they will
always bring
perfect hecatombs, both they who dwell in rich Peloponnesus
and the men of Europe and from all the wave-washed isles, coming to question me.
And I will deliver to them all counsel that cannot fail, answering them in my rich
temple."
294-299 - When he had
said this, Phoebus Apollo laid out all the foundations
throughout, wide and very long; and upon these the sons of
Erginus, Trophonius and Agamedes, dear to the deathless
gods, laid a
footing of stone.
And the countless
tribes of men built the whole temple of wrought stones,
to be sung of
for ever.
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This is an
interlude to the main theme of establishing
Apollo"s Oracle
300-310 - But
near by was a sweet flowing spring, and there
with his strong bow the lord, the son of Zeus,
killed the bloated, great she-dragon, a fierce
monster wont to do great mischief to men
upon earth, to men themselves and to their thin- shanked sheep; for she was
a very bloody plague.
- She it
was who once received from gold-throned Hera and brought up
fell, cruel Typhaon to be a plague to
men. [You cannot make money by
plaguing people]
Once on a
time Hera bare him because
she was angry with father Zeus, when the Son of Cronos (Saturn) bare
all-glorious Athena in his head. Thereupon
queenly Hera was angry and spoke thus among
the assembled gods:
311-330 -
"Hear from me, all gods and goddesses, how
cloud- gathering Zeus begins to dishonour me wantonly,
when he has made me his true-hearted wife. See
now, apart from me he has given birth to
bright-eyed Athena who is foremost
among all the blessed gods.
- But my
son Hephaestus (Roman: Vulcan) whom I bare
was weakly among all the
blessed gods and shrivelled of
foot,
a
shame and disgrace to me in heaven,
whom I myself took in my
hands and cast out so that he fell in the
great sea.
See The Great Red Dragon
But
silver-shod Thetis the daughter of
Nereus took and cared for him with her
sisters: would that she had done other service
to the blessed gods! O wicked one and crafty!
What else will you now devise? How dared you
by yourself give birth to bright-eyed Athena?
Would not I have borne you a child -- I, who
was at least called your wife among the
undying gods who hold wide heaven. Beware now
lest I devise some evil thing for you
hereafter:
- yes, now
I will contrive that a son be born me to be
foremost among the undying gods --
- and that
without casting shame on the holy bond of
wedlock between you and me.
- And I
will not come to your bed, but will consort
with the blessed gods far off from you."
331-333 -
When she had so spoken, she went apart from
the gods, being very angry. Then straightway
large-eyed queenly Hera prayed, striking the
ground flatwise with her hand, and speaking
thus:
334-362 -
"Hear now, I pray, Earth and wide Heaven
above, and you Titan (Satans) gods who dwell
beneath the earth about great Tartarus, and from whom
are sprung both gods and men!
- Titan: in Greek
mythology, any of the children of Uranus
(Heaven) and Gaea (Earth) and their
descendants. According to Hesiod"s Theogony,
there were 12 original Titans: the brothers
Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus,
and Cronus and the
sisters Thea, Rhea, Themis,
Mnemosyne, Phoebe, and Tethys.
-
- At the
instigation of Gaea the Titans
rebelled against their father, who had
shut them up in the underworld (Tartarus). Under the
leadership of Cronus they deposed
Uranus and set up Cronus as their
ruler.
-
- But one
of Cronus" sons, Zeus, rebelled
against his father, and a struggle then
ensued between them in which most of the
Titans sided with Cronus. Zeus and his
brothers and sisters finally defeated the
Titans after 10 years of fierce battles (the
Titanomachia). The Titans were then hurled down
by Zeus and imprisoned in a cavity
beneath Tartarus.
-
- Tartarus the infernal
regions of ancient Greek mythology. The name
was originally used for the deepest region
of the world, the lower of the two parts of
the underworld, where the gods locked up
their enemies. It gradually came to mean the
entire underworld. As such it was the
opposite of Elysium, where happy souls lived
after death. In some accounts Tartarus was
one of the personified elements of the
world, along with Gaea (Earth) and others.
According to those accounts, Tartarus and
Gaea produced the monster Typhon. Compare
Hades.
Harken you
now to me, one and all, and grant that I may bear a
child apart from Zeus, no wit lesser
than him in strength -- nay, let him be as
much stronger than Zeus as all-seeing Zeus
than Cronos."
Thus she
cried and lashed the earth with her strong
hand. Then the life-giving earth was moved:
and when Hera saw it she was
glad in heart, for she thought her prayer
would be fulfilled.
- And
thereafter she never came to the bed of wise
Zeus for a full year, not to sit in her
carved chair as aforetime to plan wise
counsel for him, but stayed in her temples
where many pray, and delighted in her
offerings, large-eyed queenly Hera.
But when the
months and days were fulfilled and the seasons
duly came on as the earth moved round, she
bare one neither like the gods
nor mortal men, fell, cruel Typhaon, to be a plague to men.
Straightway large-eyed queenly Hera took him
and bringing one evil thing to another such,
gave him to the dragoness; and she
received him.
And this Typhaon used to work great mischief among the famous
tribes of men. Whosoever met the dragoness, the day of doom
would sweep him away, until the lord Apollo, who deals death
from afar, shot a strong arrow at her. Then she, rent
with bitter pangs, lay drawing great gasps for
breath and rolling about that place.
An awful noise swelled up
unspeakable as she writhed continually this
way and that amid the wood: and so she left
her life, breathing it forth in blood. Then
Phoebus Apollo boasted over her:
363-369 -
"Now rot here upon the
soil that feeds man! (a play on the
Greek verb pytho, "I rot")
You at least
shall live no more to be a fell bane to men
who eat the fruit of the all-nourishing earth,
and who will bring hither perfect hecatombs.
Against cruel death neither Typhoeus shall
avail you nor ill-famed Chimera, but here shall
the Earth and shining Hyperion make you rot."
370-374 -
Thus said Phoebus, exulting over her: and
darkness covered her eyes. And the holy strength
of Helios made her rot away there; wherefore
the place is now called Pytho (Delphi was supposed to
be Pytho.), and men call
the lord Apollo by another name,
- Pythian; because on
that spot the power of
piercing Helios made the
monster rot away.
375-378 -
Then Phoebus Apollo saw that the sweet-flowing
spring had beguiled him, and he started out in
anger against Telphusa; and soon coming to
her, he stood close by and spoke to her:
379-381 -
"Telphusa, you were not, after all, to keep to
yourself this lovely place by deceiving my
mind, and pour forth your clear flowing water:
here my renown shall also be and not yours alone?"
382-387 -
Thus spoke the lord, far-working Apollo, and pushed over
upon her a crag with a shower of
rocks, hiding her streams: and he made himself
an altar in a wooded grove very near the
clear-flowing stream. In that place all men
pray to the great one by the name Telphusian,
because he humbled the stream of holy
Telphusa.
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Apollo
Gathers
Ministers to Serve Him Among the Rocks and Stones
These
maps will aid you in following Apollo becoming a dolphin
to navigate people to his oracle:
388-439 - Then Phoebus Apollo (Abaddon Apollo Apollyon) pondered in his
heart what men he should bring in to be his ministers in
sacrifice
and to serve
him in rocky Pytho.
And while he
considered this, he became aware of a swift ship upon the wine-like sea in which were many men
and goodly, Cretans from Cnossos (10),
(10) Inscriptions
show that there was a temple of Apollo Delphinius
(Dolphin) (cp. ii. 495-6) at Cnossus and a Cretan month
bearing the same name.
That we henceforth
be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried
about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of
men, and cunning craftiness whereby they lie in wait
to deceive; Ephesians 4:14
the city of Minos, they who do sacrifice to the prince and announce his decrees, whatsoever Phoebus Apollo, bearer of the golden blade, speaks in answer from
his laurel tree below the dells of
Parnassus.
These
men were sailing in their black ship for traffic and for profit to sandy Pylos and to
the men of Pylos.
But Phoebus Apollo met them: in the open sea he sprang upon their
swift ship,
like a dolphin
in shape, and lay there, a great and awesome monster, and none of them gave
heed so as to understand (11);
(11) The
dolphin was really Apollo.
For such are
false apostles (pretend preachers), deceitful workers,
transforming (transfiguring) themselves into the
apostles of Christ. 2 Corinthians 11:13
And no marvel;
for Satan himself is
transformed into an angel of light. 2 Corinthians
11:14
Apollo in
all of his forms was the bright and morning
star filled with light.
but they sought to
cast the dolphin overboard. But he kept shaking the black
ship
every way and make the timbers quiver.
So they sat silent
in their craft for fear, and did not loose the
sheets throughout the black, hollow ship, nor lowered the
sail of their dark-prowed vessel, but as they had
set it first of all with oxhide ropes, so they kept
sailing on; for a rushing south wind hurried on the swift
ship from behind.
First they
passed by Malea, and then along the Laconian coast they came to
Taenarum, sea-garlanded town and country of Helios who gladdens men,
where the thick- fleeced sheep of the lord Helios
feed continually and occupy a glad-some country.
There they
wished to put their ship to shore, and land and
comprehend the great marvel and see with their
eyes whether the monster would remain upon
the deck of the hollow ship, or spring back into
the briny deep where fishes shoal. But the
well-built ship would not obey the helm, but went
on its way all along Peloponnesus:
and the
lord,far-working Apollo, guided (navigated) it
easily with the breath of the breeze. So the ship ran
on its course and came to Arena and lovely
Argyphea and Thryon, the ford of Alpheus, and
well-placed Aepy and sandy Pylos and the men of
Pylos; past Cruni it went and Chalcis and past Dyme and
fair Elis, where the Epei rule.
And at the time
when she was making for Pherae, exulting in the
breeze from Zeus, there appeared to them below the
clouds the steep mountain of Ithaca, and Dulichium
and Same and wooded Zacynthus. But when they were
passed by all the coast of Peloponnesus, then,
towards Crisa,
that vast gulf began to heave in
sight which through all its length cuts off the
rich isle of Pelops. There came on them a strong,
clear west- wind by ordinance of Zeus and blew from heaven
vehemently, that with all speed the ship might
finish coursing over the briny water of the sea.
So they began
again to voyage back towards the dawn and the sun: and the lord
Apollo, son of Zeus, led them on until they
reached far-seen Crisa, land of vines, and into haven:
there the sea-coursing ship grounded on the sands.
Arriving at his
temple, Apollo a Lucifer figure changes from a
dolphin form to that of a man.
440-451 - Then, like a star at noonday, the lord,
far-working Apollo, leaped from the ship:
........... flashes of fire flew from him thick and
their brightness
reached to heaven.
He entered into
his shrine between priceless tripods, and there made
a flame
to flare up bright, showing forth the splendour of his
shafts, so that their radiance filled all
Crisa,
and the wives and
well-girded daughters of the Crisaeans raised a cry
at that outburst of Phoebus; for he cast great fear upon
them all. From his shrine he sprang forth
again, swift as a thought, to speed
again to the ship,
bearing the form of a man, brisk and sturdy,
in the prime of his youth,
while his broad shoulders were covered with his hair: and he spoke to the
Cretans, uttering winged words:
Like Satan in the
garden of Eden, Apollo plays dumb.
452-461 -
"Strangers, who are you? Whence come you sailing along
the paths of the sea? Are you for traffic, or do you wander at random over the sea as pirates
do who put their own lives to hazard and bring
mischief to men of foreign parts as they roam?
Why rest
you so and are afraid, and do not go ashore nor stow
the gear of your black ship?
For that is the custom of men who live by bread,
whenever they come to land in their dark ships from
the main, spent with toil; at once desire for sweet food catches them about the heart."
[Eat, drink and be merry]
462-473 - So
speaking, he put courage in their hearts, and the master
of the Cretans answered him and said:
"Stranger --
though you are nothing like mortal men in shape or
stature, but are as the deathless gods -- hail and all
happiness to you, and may the gods give you good.
Now tell me truly
that I may surely know it: what country is this, and
what land, and what men live herein? As for us, with
thoughts set otherwards, we were sailing over the
great sea to Pylos from Crete (for from there we declare
that we are sprung), but now are come on shipboard
to this place by no means willingly -- another way and
other paths -- and gladly would we return.
...........
But one of
the deathless
gods
brought us here against our will."
Now that I have
lured you into my land you can get rich as my slave
ministers.
See Second Adam and Eve
474-501 - Then
far-working Apollo answered then and said: "Strangers
who once dwelt about wooded Cnossos but now shall return no
more
each to his loved city and fair house and dear wife;
here
shall you
keep my rich temple that is honoured by many men. I am the son of Zeus; Apollo is my name:
but you I brought here over the wide gulf of the sea, meaning you
no hurt; nay, here you shall keep my rich temple that is greatly honoured
among men, and you shall know the plans of the deathless gods,
........... and by their will you shall be honoured continually for all time. And now come, make haste
and do as I say. First loose the sheets and lower the sail, and then draw the swift
ship up upon the land.
Take out your
goods
and the gear of the straight ship, and make an altar upon the beach of the
sea: light fire upon it and make an offering of white meal.
Next, stand
side by side around the altar and pray: and in as much as at
the first on the hazy sea I sprang upon the swift ship
in the form of a dolphin,
pray to me as
Apollo Delphinius (This became Delphi rather
than Pytho); also the altar itself shall be
called Delphinius and overlooking (12) for ever.
(12) The
epithets are transferred from the god to his altar
"Overlooking" is especially an epithet of Zeus, as in Apollonius
Rhodius ii. 1124
Afterwards, sup
beside your dark ship and pour an offering to the
blessed gods who dwell on Olympus.
But when you
have put away craving for sweet food, come with me singing the hymn Ie
Paean (Hail, Healer!), until you come to
the place where you shall keep my rich temple."
The tholos (circular building), built c. 390 BC, at
Marmaria, Delphi, Greece. Copyright Farrell
Grehan--Photo Researchers .
- Clement of Alexandria,
Stromata I
"Callithoe, key-bearer of the Olympian queen:
- Argive Hera, who first with
fillets and with fringes
- The queen's tall column all around adorned."
- Further, the author of Europiarelates that the statue of Apollo at Delphi
- was a pillar
in these words:-
- "That to the god first-fruits
and tithes we may
- On sacred pillars and on lofty column hang."
And
they followed like lambs Navigating the Winds of
Change
502-523
- So said Apollo. And they readily harkened to
him and obeyed him. First they unfastened the sheets and let
down the sail and lowered the mast by the forestays
upon the mast- rest. Then, landing upon the beach of
the sea, they hauled up the ship from the water to
dry land and fixed long stays under it. Also they
made an altar upon the beach of the sea, and when
they had lit a fire, made an offering of white meal,
and prayed standing around the altar as Apollo
had bidden them.
Then they took
their meal by the swift, black ship, and poured an
offering to the blessed gods who dwell on Olympus.
And when they had put away craving for drink and
food, they started out
with the lord
Apollo, the son of Zeus,
to lead
them,
holding
a
lyre in his hands, and playing sweetly as he stepped high and featly.
So the Cretans
followed him to Pytho, marching in time as
they chanted the Ie Paean after
the manner of the Cretan paean-singers
...........
and of
those in whose hearts the heavenly Muse has put
sweet-voiced song.
With tireless
feet they approached the ridge and straightway
came to Parnassus and the lovely place
where they were to dwell honoured by many men.
There Apollo brought them and showed them his most
holy sanctuary and rich temple.
But Apollo
really has nothing to offer. Give up silly work
and live off the lambs.
524-525 - But their spirit was
stirred in their dear breasts, and the master of the
Cretans asked him, saying:
526-530 - "Lord,
since you have brought us here far from our dear
ones and our fatherland, -- for so it seemed
good to your heart,
...........
tell us now
how we
shall live. That we would know of you.
...........
This land is
not to be
desired either for vineyards or for pastures
...........
........... so that we can live well thereon
...........
........... and also minister to men."
Apollo (Satan)
has a better scheme: don"t tend the garden, get smart
531-544 - Then
Apollo, the son of Zeus, smiled upon them and said:
"Foolish mortals and poor drudges are you, that you seek cares and hard
toils and straits!
...........
Easily will I tell you a word and set it in your hearts.
Though each one
of you with knife in hand should slaughter sheep
continually, yet would you always have abundant
store,
even all
that the glorious tribes of men bring here
for me.
But guard you my temple and
receive the tribes of men that gather to this place,
and especially show mortal men my will, and do you keep
righteousness in your heart.
But if any shall be disobedient and pay no heed to
my warning, of if there shall be any idle word or deed and outrage as
is common among mortal men,
then other
men
shall be your masters and with a strong hand shall make you subject for ever. All has been
told you: do you keep it in your heart."
So they are
trapped and threatened if they try to get out of
it.
545-546 - And so,
farewell, son of Zeus and Leto; but I will remember
you and another hymn also.
XXI. TO APOLLO (5 lines) (Abaddon Apollo
Apollyon)
(1-4) Phoebus, of
you even the swan sings with clear voice to
the beating of his wings, as he alights upon the
bank by the eddying river Peneus; and of you the
sweet-tongued minstrel, holding his high-pitched lyre, always sings both
first and last.
(l. 5) And so hail
to you,
lord! I seek your favour with my song.
XXV. TO THE MUSES
AND APOLLO (7 lines)
(ll. 1-5) I will
begin with the Muses and Apollo and Zeus. For it is through the
Muses and Apollo that there are singers upon the earth and players upon the lyre; but kings are from
Zeus. Happy is he whom the Muses love: sweet flows speech from his lips.
And the voice of
harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters,
shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no
craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be
found any more in thee; and the sound of a
millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
Rev 18:22
Mousikos (g3451)
moo-sik-os'; from Mousa , (a Muse); "musical",
i.e. (as noun) a minstrel: - musician
And when Jesus
came into the rulers house, and saw the minstrels and the people
making a noise, Matt 9:23
Auletes (g834)
ow-lay-tace'; from 832; a flute- player: -
minstrel, piper.
Auleo (g832) ow-leh'-o;
from 836; to play the flute: - pipe.
And saying,
We have piped unto you, and ye have not
danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have
not lamented. Mt.11:17
They are
like unto children sitting in the marketplace,
and calling one to another, and saying, We
have piped unto you, and ye have not danced;
we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
Lu.7:32
And even
things without life giving sound, whether pipe
or harp, except they give a distinction in the
sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or
harped? 1Co.14:7
While he yet
spake, there came from the ruler of the synagogues
house certain which said, Thy daughter is dead:
why troublest thou the Master any further? Mark
5:35
And he cometh to
the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth
the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly.
Mark 5:38
Thorubos (g2351)
thor'-oo-bos; from the base of 2360; a
disturbance: - tumult, uproar.
Whereupon
certain Jews from Asia found me purified in
the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult. Acts 24:18
Threneo (g2354)
thray-neh'-o; from 2355; to bewail: - lament,
mourn.
They are like
unto children sitting in the
marketplace, and calling one to another, and
saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not
danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not
wept. Lu.7:32
Thriambeuo (g2358)
three-am-byoo'-o; from a prol. comp. of the
base of 2360 and a der. of 680 (mean. a noisy
iambus, sung in honor of Bacchus); to make an
acclamatory procession, i.e. (fig.) to conquer
or (by Hebr.) to give victory: - (cause) to
triumph (over).
Throeo (g2360)
thro-eh'-o; from threomai , (to wail); to
clamor, i.e. (by impl.) to frighten: - trouble
And when he was
come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye this ado,
and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth. Mark 5:39
(ll. 6-7) Hail, children of Zeus! Give honour to my song! And now I will
remember you and another song also.
XXI. TO APOLLO
(5 lines)
(ll. 1-4) Phoebus,
of you even the swan sings with clear voice to the beating of his wings, as he alights upon
the bank by the eddying river Peneus; and of you the
sweet-tongued minstrel, holding his
high-pitched lyre, always sings both
first and last.
(l. 5) And so hail
to you,
lord! I seek your favour with my song.
XXV. TO THE MUSES
AND APOLLO (7 lines)
(ll. 1-5) I will
begin with the Muses and Apollo and Zeus. For it is through the
Muses and Apollo that there are singers upon the
earth and players upon the lyre; but kings are from
Zeus. Happy is he whom the Muses love: sweet flows
speech from his lips.
(ll. 6-7) Hail,
children of Zeus! Give honour to my song! And now
I will remember you and another song also.
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