Apollo loved a maiden from Thessaly, CORONIS [co-roh'nis], and she was pregnant with his child. Unfortunately, Apollo's bird, the raven, saw Coronis in the arms of another lover and told the god, who in a quick and violent rage shot her with one of his arrows.
His attributes include the laurel wreath and lyre. He often appears in the company of the Muses. Animals sacred to Apollo include roe deer, swans, cicadas, hawks, ravens, crows, foxes, mice, and snakes.
He was also often depicted with one or both of his two main attributes: a bow and a lyre. The bow symbolized distance, death, terror, and awe, while the lyre more gently proclaimed the joy of communion with Olympus through music, poetry, and dance.
In Greek mythology, the raven, originally white, was the messenger of Apollo. In the legends, the raven delivered the message that Coronis, Apollo's lover, had been unfaithful. Apollo was so furious he burnt the messenger raven and that is why they are now black (Hamilton, p280).
Crow: The bird is sacred to Apollo. Cuckoo: This bird is sacred to Hera. Eagle: This bird is sacred to Zeus. Eagle Owl: This bird is sacred to Ares.
The raven is a symbol of Apollo's anger. Once all ravens were white birds or so goes the myth, but after delivering bad news to the god he scorched the wings of the raven so that all ravens going forward were black.
In honor of his lover, Apollo makes a flower spring up from Hyacinthus' blood. Confusingly, this flower isn't actually what we today call a hyacinth. Most sources agree that it was most likely an iris or a larkspur, since the myth tells us that Apollo writes on the flower the sound of his grief (Ai, Ai).
Apollo. White: Apollo is strongly associated with the sun, with archery, with truth-telling, and with healing.
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Apollo's gift, music, is one of the richest human emotional, sensory-motor, and cognitive experiences. It involves listening, watching, feeling, moving and coordinating, remembering, and expecting musical elements.
In New Horizons, Apollo's preferred styles are Cool/Simple, and his preferred color is Black.
A hecatomb of bulls and goats is offered to Apollo in an enacted sacrifice in Iliad I, which is uneaten (Iliad I 315), and another hecatomb for Apollo is consumed at a feast (Iliad I 468).
- Apollo's pet is a raven because it's one of his symbols.
Strengths: Creative, handsome, supportive of all the arts of civilization. Weaknesses: Like his father Zeus, Apollo gets in trouble over love. Birthplace: On the sunny Greek island of Delos, where he was born along with his twin sister, Artemis.
Nisus, in Greek mythology, king of Megara, a son of King Pandion of Athens. His name was given to the Megarian port of Nisaea. Nisus had a purple lock of hair with magic power: if preserved, it would guarantee him life and continued possession of his kingdom.
As with the other major divinities, Apollo had many children; perhaps the most famous are Orpheus (who inherited his father's musical skills and became a virtuoso with the lyre or kithara), Asclepius (to whom he gave his knowledge of healing and medicine) and, according to the 5th-century BCE tragedian Euripides, the ...
The sharp, gold-tipped arrow pierced the heart of Apollo inflaming his love for Daphne, a beautiful nymph, daughter of the river god Peneus, while the blunt, lead-tipped arrow struck the nymph creating an intense aversion for love in the her heart.
Apollo's love for Daphne was so strong that the god of prophecy was unable to foretell his future but still, his emotions were uncontrollable. He approached the nymph whom he now saw more beautiful and virtuous than she actually was.
Apollo and the Sun
By the Hellenistic period and in Latin literature, Apollo was associated with the sun. The firm connection with the sun may be traceable to the "Metamorphoses" of the major Latin poet Ovid. The Romans called him Apollo, and also sometimes Phoebus Apollo or Sol.
In ancient Greek and Egyptian mythology, the phoenix is a mythical bird associated with the Egyptian sun god Ra and the Greek god Phoibos Apollo.
The ivory-billed woodpecker is sometimes called the Lord God bird, a nickname it earned because that's what people cried out the first time they ever saw one: “Lord God, what a bird.” Even though the last confirmed sighting was in the 1930s, birders have been claiming they have seen the Lord God bird throughout the ...
The raven, after learning the affair of Coronis with Ischys, reported it to Apollo. Apollo sent Artemis to kill the couple and in anger, turned the raven black by scorching it as a punishment for being a tattletale and failing its duty. This is why the ravens are black today.