Apollon and Artemis - Sun and Moon?

[Mizz Faith]

Agreed. I would like to read that as well.

I too own Edith Hamilton's Mythology but never once did I notice that. Guess I need to re-read it (its been a few years).

 

[Goddess of The Century]

Mizz Faith

Agreed. I would like to read that as well.

I too own Edith Hamilton's Mythology but never once did I notice that. Guess I need to re-read it (its been a few years).

I haven't even read the whole thing. :p Honestly, I just used it for school and read the interesting parts.

Advanced Placement English doesn't allow a lot of time for free reading.

 

[Queen-of-the-Rogue]

Goddess of The Century

Queen-of-the-Rogue

Yeah. The book I have is actually very interesting as well. Artemis Book

Wow. That book looks really interesting. I wonder if I could get my hands on a copy.

It is really interesting and I enjoyed reading it a lot. I think it all depends on where you live. My dad got me the book from Amazon as a gift for passing my sophomore year of highschool.  

[Mizz Faith]

Goddess of The Century

I haven't even read the whole thing. :p Honestly, I just used it for school and read the interesting parts.

Advanced Placement English doesn't allow a lot of time for free reading.

lol. I hear ya. I never took AP English, just CP (I give you props for attending that class though - I heard horror stories from my friends). I still managed to get the honors diploma (the highest diploma we have in my town) so I never took any AP classes (they wouldn't have helped me in college because of the one I was going to attend). I bought the book when I was home schooled (14) and read it then. Then I went back to regular school to finish out and just never got around to going back over it.

 

[Goddess of The Century]

Mizz Faith

Goddess of The Century

I haven't even read the whole thing. :p Honestly, I just used it for school and read the interesting parts.

Advanced Placement English doesn't allow a lot of time for free reading.

lol. I hear ya. I never took AP English, just CP (I give you props for attending that class though - I heard horror stories from my friends). I still managed to get the honors diploma (the highest diploma we have in my town) so I never took any AP classes (they wouldn't have helped me in college because of the one I was going to attend). I bought the book when I was home schooled (14) and read it then. Then I went back to regular school to finish out and just never got around to going back over it.

AP English isn't so much horror as it is being able to over think something until your head explodes.
I think the only thing I really like is studying archetypes. emo

 

[WayWard Ventus]

Apollo is the godess that holds the sun  

[charaxxfallen]

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Apollo is the godess that holds the sun

Apollo is a GUY!!! As in GOD. eek  

[Queen-of-the-Rogue]

charaxxfallen

borndeadeyes cosplayer

Apollo is the godess that holds the sun

Apollo is a GUY!!! As in GOD. eek

I was about to say the same thing. That's just scary that someone thinks Apollo is a girl.  

[eXteN]

Bravo Αχέρωντα for this thread.
We should protect mythology from modern mistakes if we want historic truth!  

[Qyp]

Heh, I am enlightened.  

[Dark-Hunteress Sage]

WayWard Ventus

Apollo is the godess that holds the sun

ROLF!! Oh gods. You my friend have just made my top favrite persons list.  

[Akherontis]

Qyp

Heh, I am enlightened.

That's what the guild is here for. It saddens me sometimes when Apollon and Artemis get all the credit, while Helios and Selene are marginalized. The Archaic Greeks were entirely consistent in their belief that Helios drew the sun through the sky and Selene the moon. Even the later Hellenistic Greeks still attributed those functions to Helios and Selene, although by then Apollon and Artemis had acquired certain minor solar/lunar associations. The Romans still considered Sol and Luna to the the primary gods of the celestial lights, although some of Selene's myth was transferred to Diana rather than Luna.  

[Qyp]

Akherontis

Qyp

Heh, I am enlightened.

That's what the guild is here for. It saddens me sometimes when Apollon and Artemis get all the credit, while Helios and Selene are marginalized. The Archaic Greeks were entirely consistent in their belief that Helios drew the sun through the sky and Selene the moon. Even the later Hellenistic Greeks still attributed those functions to Helios and Selene, although by then Apollon and Artemis had acquired certain minor solar/lunar associations. The Romans still considered Sol and Luna to the the primary gods of the celestial lights, although some of Selene's myth was transferred to Diana rather than Luna.

Jupiter, Juno and Minerva? Now they are just a fusion of the old Tinia, Uni and Merva of the Etruscan mythology from Italy, and the Greek Mythology stories during Roman Empire times, I presume.

Stories and names get mixed up so easily when there is similarities in the characters of those stories...  

[Akherontis]

Qyp

Akherontis

Qyp

Heh, I am enlightened.

That's what the guild is here for. It saddens me sometimes when Apollon and Artemis get all the credit, while Helios and Selene are marginalized. The Archaic Greeks were entirely consistent in their belief that Helios drew the sun through the sky and Selene the moon. Even the later Hellenistic Greeks still attributed those functions to Helios and Selene, although by then Apollon and Artemis had acquired certain minor solar/lunar associations. The Romans still considered Sol and Luna to the the primary gods of the celestial lights, although some of Selene's myth was transferred to Diana rather than Luna.

Jupiter, Juno and Minerva? Now they are just a fusion of the old Tinia, Uni and Merva of the Etruscan mythology from Italy, and the Greek Mythology stories during Roman Empire times, I presume.

Stories and names get mixed up so easily when there is similarities in the characters of those stories...

In a sense, you are correct. But Jupiter ultimately derives from the proto-Indo-European Dyeus Pater. The same can be said for Zeus (whose genitive is Dios), and the Vedic deity Dyaus Pitar, and the Etruscan Tinia. You are definitely accurate in stating that the Romans did not just adopt and mutate the Greek Gods. The Etruscans were also great influences, as were Persian deities like Mithras. One must also account for the Di Indigetes of the Italians themselves. Janus is a very interesting case. He may be a szygy of Apollo and Diana (via the spelling Iana).  

[Qyp]

Akherontis

Qyp

Akherontis

Qyp

Heh, I am enlightened.

That's what the guild is here for. It saddens me sometimes when Apollon and Artemis get all the credit, while Helios and Selene are marginalized. The Archaic Greeks were entirely consistent in their belief that Helios drew the sun through the sky and Selene the moon. Even the later Hellenistic Greeks still attributed those functions to Helios and Selene, although by then Apollon and Artemis had acquired certain minor solar/lunar associations. The Romans still considered Sol and Luna to the the primary gods of the celestial lights, although some of Selene's myth was transferred to Diana rather than Luna.

Jupiter, Juno and Minerva? Now they are just a fusion of the old Tinia, Uni and Merva of the Etruscan mythology from Italy, and the Greek Mythology stories during Roman Empire times, I presume.

Stories and names get mixed up so easily when there is similarities in the characters of those stories...

In a sense, you are correct. But Jupiter ultimately derives from the proto-Indo-European Dyeus Pater. The same can be said for Zeus (whose genitive is Dios), and the Vedic deity Dyaus Pitar, and the Etruscan Tinia. You are definitely accurate in stating that the Romans did not just adopt and mutate the Greek Gods. The Etruscans were also great influences, as were Persian deities like Mithras. One must also account for the Di Indigetes of the Italians themselves. Janus is a very interesting case. He may be a szygy of Apollo and Diana (via the spelling Iana).

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