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The Wolf God of Argos:  Apollo Lykios

One of the most famous and magnificent buildings in ancient Argos was the sanctuary of the wolf god, Apollo Lykios. It was for this reason that the people of Argos chose the wolf as an emblem for their coinage, an instantly recognizable symbol of the great city.

This coin is a silver triobol struck in Argos circa 270-260/50 BC. The obverse is the forepart of a wolf with a Θ above its neck. The reverse has a large A, a monogram to the upper right and an eagle standing on a harpe below, all within an incuse square.  The harpe was a type of sword or sickle; a sword with a sickle protrusion along one edge near the tip of the blade. The harpe is mentioned in Greek and Roman sources, and almost always in mythological contexts.

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Deity Aesthetic: Apollo

Greek God of prophecy and oracles, light, music,art, poetry, archery, healing, plague and disease, and the protection of the young.

Hellenic Epithets:

Thearios (Of the Oracle)

Proopsios (Foreseeing)

Mousêgetês (Leader of the Muses)

Klêdônes (Omen in Words and Sounds)

Oulios (Of Sound Health)

Paiôn (Healer)

Lykios (Of the Wolves)

Delphinios (Of the Dolphin)

Alexikakos (Averter of Evil, Harm)

Symbolism of Apollo:

The Lyre

Bows

Laurel Tree

Laurel Wreath

The Chariot

Wolves

Dolphins

Ravens

Pythons

Bees

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28 Days of Devotional Journaling:

Day 1

prompt: list all the names of the deity, in your language and the cultures language.

Greek - Transliteration - Translation

Απολλων - Apollôn - Apollo

Θεαριος - Thearios -Of the Oracle

Προοπσιος - Proopsios - Forseeing

Κληριος - Klêrios - Distributing by Lot

Κληδωνες - Klêdônes - Omen in Words and Sounds

Ἑκατος - Hekatos - Shooter from Afar

Αγραιος - Agraios - Of the Hunt, Hunter

Μουσηγετης - Mousêgetês - Leader of the Muses

Ουλιος - Oulios - Of Sound Health

Παιαν - Paian - Healer

Παιηον - Paiêon - Healer

Παιων - Paiôn - Healer

Ακεσιος - Akesios - Of Healing

Αλεξικακος - Alexikakos - Averter of Evil, Harm

Επικουριος - Epikourios - Succouring, Helping

Βοηδρομιος - Boêdromios - Rescuer

Λυκιος - Lykios - Of the Wolves

Σμινθειος - Smintheios - Of the Mice

Σμινθαιος - Sminthaios - Of the Mice

Παρνοπιος - Parnopios - Of the Locusts

Πορνοπιων - Pornopiôn - Of the Locusts

Ερυθιβιος - Erythibios - Of Mildew

Δελφινιος - Delphinios - Of the Dolphin

Ακτιος - Akitos - Of the Foreshore

Θεοξενιος - Theoxenios - God of Foreigners

Επιβατηεριος - Epibatêrios - Of Sacrifices and Disembarkation

Αθηνη - Athênê - Minerva (Athena)

Νικη - Nikê - Victory

Αρεια - Areia - Of War, Warlike

Σαλπινξ - Salpinx - War-Trumpet

Λειτις - Leitis - Distributor of War Booty

Ζωστηρια - Zôstêria - Girder in Armor

Σθενιας - Sthenias - Of Strength, Strong

Πολεμηδοκος - Polemêdokos - War-Sustaining

Ἱππια - Hippia - Of the Horses

Χαλινιτις - Khalinitis - Bridler (of Horses)

Ερυμα - Eryma - Defender

Σωτειρα - Sôteria - Saviour

Αλαλκομενηις - Alalkomenêis - Protrectress

Πολιας - Polias - Of the City

Πολιουχος - Polioukhos - City-Protectress

Προμαχορμα - Promakhorma - Champion of the Anchorage

Εργανη - Ergane - Worker

Παιωνια - Paiônia - Healer

Ὑγεια - Hygeia - Of Good Health

Αλεα - Alea - Escape (To Refuge)

Αμβουλια - Amboulia - Counsellor, Of Counsel

Προνοια - Pronoia - Foresight

Απατουρια - Apatouria - Of Deception, Deciever

Μαχανιτις - Makhanitis - Contriver (of Plans and Devices)

��φθαλμιτις - Ophthalmitis - Of the Eyes

Οξυδερκης - Oxyderkês - Sharp-Sighted

Κορυφασια - Koryphasia - Of the Head

Κορυφαγενης - Koryphagenês - Born of the Head

Παρθενος - Parthenos - Virgin, Maiden

Κοριη - Koriê - Maiden

Ξενια - Xenia - Of Hospitality, Of the Foreigner

SOURCE - APOLLO

SOURCE - ATHENA

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Leto Epithets/Titles

Queen of the day  Of great kindness  Dark-veiled  She who is gentle and modest  Ever mild and gentle Of womanly demure  One who moves unseen/One who travels unseen  Of the wolves  One who brings forth transitions  Mother of truth  Dark-gowned  Daughter of Koios and Phoibe  Most Glorious  Lovely-haired Neat-ankled  August Goddess  Khrysêlakatos (Of the gold spindle (distaff)) Of four pillars  Far-famed  Gold-tressed  Phytie/Phystiê (Grafter) Koiantis/Koiêis (daughter of Koios) Koiogeneia/Koiogenês (born of Koios)  Of Hyperborea  Lykios (as patron goddess of Lykia)  Euteknos (of Fair Children)  Gentlest in all Olympos  Lady of the Beasts

*Most of these are ones I had to comb through literature to find, a couple of UPG names and ones I’ve found or created (as a reference) through other research 

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Apollo Epithets

Feel free to correct me if im wrong!

Aegletes/Αἰγλήτης —> Light of the sun

Phoebus/Φοῖβος —> Bright (literally)

Klêdônes/Κληδωνες —> Omen in Words and Sounds

Hekatos/Ἑκατος —> Shooter from Afar

Mousêgetês/Μουσηγετης —> Leader of the Muses

Paian/Παιαν —> Healer

Alexikakos/Αλεξικακος —> Averter of Evil, Harm

Βοηδρομιος/Boêdromios —> Rescuer

Lykios/Λυκιος —> Of the Wolves (this is my favorite epithet btw xd) 

Smintheus/Σμινθειος —> Of the Mice

Theoxenios/Θεοξενιος —> God of Foreigners

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21 Day Challenge - Apollon

Day 3: Does your deity have any alternate names or epithets? If they do, what are they, and what do they mean? What does the name you call your deity mean?

Θεαριος (Thearios): Of the Oracle

Προοπσιος (Proopsios): Foreseeing

Κληριος (Klêrios): Distributing by Lot

Κληδωνες (Klêdônes): Omen in Words and Sounds

Έκατος (Hekatos): Shooter from Afar

Αγραιος (Agraios): Of the Hunt, Hunter

Μουσηγετης (Mousêgetês): Leader of the Muses

Ουλιος (Oulios): Of Sound Health

Παιαν (Paian): Healer

Παιηον (Paiêon ): Healer

Παιων (Paiôn): Healer

Ακεσιος (Akesios): Of Healing

Αλεξικακος (Alexikakos): Averter of Evil, Harm

Επικουριος (Epikourios): Succouring, Helping

Βοηδρομιος (Boêdromios): Rescuer

Λυκιος (Lykios): Of the Wolves

Σμινθειος (Smintheios): Of the Mice

Σμινθαιος (Sminthaios): Of the Mice

Παρνοπιος (Parnopios): Of the Locusts

Πορνοπιων (Pornopiôn): Of the Locusts

Ερυθιβιος (Erythibios): Of Mildew

Δελφινιος (Delphinios): Of the Dolphin

Ακτιος (Aktios): Of the Foreshore

Θεοξενιος (Theoxenios): God of Foreigners

Επιβατηεριος (Epibatêrios): Of Sacrifices on Disembarkation

Κορυνθος (Korynthos): Of the Corynthus-Cake

Ενθρυπτος (Enthryptos): Of the Enthryptos-Cake

Αργυιευς (Argyieus): Of the Streets

Προστατηριος (Prostatêrios): Standing Before (the Entrance)

Πυθιος (Pythios): Pythian (Delphi)

Δελφιος (Delphios): Of Delphi (Phocis)

Αμυκλαιος (Amyklaios): Of Amyclae (Laconia)

Ονκαιατος (Onkaiatos): Of Oncius (Arcadia)

Παρρασιος (Parrhasios): Of Parrhasia (Arcadia)

Ισμηνιος (Ismênios): Of Ismenius R. (Boeotia)

Πτωιος (Ptôios): Of Mt Ptoon (Boeotia)

Τιλφωσσιος (Tilphôssios): Of Tilphusa (Boeotia)

Μαρμαρινος (Marmarinos): Of Marmarium (Euboea)

Ακτιος (Aktios): Of Actium (Acarnania)

Φυλλιος (Phyllios): Of Phyllus (Phthiotis)

Λευκατας (Leukatas): Of Leucas (Adriatic)

Δηλιος (Dêlios): Of Delos (Aegean)

Τενεατος (Teneatos): Of Tenos (Aegean)

Θυμβριος (Thymbrios): Of Thymbra (Troad)

Λυκειος (Lykeios): Of Lycia

Κλαριος (Klarios): Of Clarus (Lydia)

Γρυνειος (Gryneios): Of Gryneum (Lydia)

Γρυνευς (Gryneus): Of Gryneum (Lydia)

Λαρισαιος (Larisaios): Of Larisa (Lydia)

Τριοπιος (Triopios): Of Triopium (Caria)

Διδυμοις (Didymois): Of Didyma (Caria)

Διδυμευς (Didymeus): Of Didyma (Caria)

Αιγυπτιος (Aigyptios): Of Egypt

Λυκειος (Lykeios): Of Lycus (Attic hero)

Αμαζονιος (Amazonios): Of the Amazons

Ονκαιατος (Onkaiatos): Of Oncius (Arcadian hero)

Καρνειος (Karneios): Of Carnus (Arcnanian hero)

Ισμηνιος (Ismênios): Of Ismenus (Boeotian hero)

Κιλλαιος (Killaios Of Cillus): (Trojan hero)

Δειραδιωτης (Deiradiôtês): Of the Ridge

Πλατανιστιος (Platanistios): Of the Plane-Trees

Μελιαι (Meliai ):Of the Ash-Trees

Σποδιος (Spodios): Of (Altar) Ashes

Ακταιος (Aktaios): Of the Coast

Αρχηγετης (Arkhêgetês): Founder (of Megara’s Walls)

Λατωιος (Latôios): Son of Leto

Πυθιος (Pythios): Of the Python

Διονυσοδοτης (Dionysodotês): Bestower of Dionysus

Πατρωιος (Patrôios): Of the Fathers, Ancestral

Καρνειος (Karneios): Of the Cornel-Tree

Θερμιος (Thermios): Of Lupine Flowers

Αιγλητος (Aiglêtos): Shining

Δεκατηφορος (Dekatêphoros): Bringer of Tithes

Όριος (Horios): Boundaries, Of Borders

The titles and epithets I use most often are Θεαριος (Thearios: Of the Oracle), Έκατος (Hekatos: Shooter from Afar), Μουσηγετης (Mousêgetês: Leader of the Muses), and Λατωιος (Latôios: Son of Leto).

I got all information from theoi.com

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Theoi Summary - Apollon

Απολλων (ah-POH-lohn) - Apollon AKA Apollo, Phoebus God of light, truth, prophecy, music, poetry, archery, healing, plague/disease, the sun, youth, young men, and those entering manhood Ouranic Olympian

Symbols: Bow, arrows, lyre, laurel wreath, sun Animals: Raven, crow, swan, dolphin, hawk, mouse, python Colors: Yellow, gold, orange, white Plants/Herbs: Laurel, bay laurel, cypress, hyacinth, anise, palm, citrus Stones/Crystals: Citrine, clear quartz, sunstone, tiger’s eye, yellow calcite, chrysocolla, amber

Retinue: The Nine Muses Relations: Leto (mother), Zeus (father), Artemis (twin sister), Asklepios (son), Aristaios (son), Orpheus (son), Korybantes (sons), half brother to all children of Zeus Identified with: Helios (Hellenic), Apollo (Roman), Sol (Roman)

Festivals: Boedromia (7th Boe.), Delia (7th Thar.), Delphinia (7th Mun.), Metageitnia (?? Met.), Pyanepsia (7th Pyan.), Thargelia (6-7th Thar.), celebrated on the 7th of every month, Noumenia (1st of every month)

Epithets: Phoebus (Apollon as Sun God), Thearius (Of the Oracle), Proupsius (Foreseeing), Hecatus (Shooter from Afar), Agraeus (Of the Hunt), Musagetes (Leader of Muses), Paeon (Healer), Akesios (Of Healing), Alexicacus (Averter of Harm), Boedromius (Rescuer), Lykios (Of the Wolves), Smintheus (Of the Mice), Parnopius (Of the Locusts), Argyeus (Of the Streets), Prostaterius (Standing Before the Entrance)

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& I Pray | A Poem For Apollon

& I pray he smites you

I pray, I pray, I pray

His glowering, solar orbs possess thee to mull through your sins in a conquest of construe

may He pierce your tree of life with sprue of plague in unfathomable vexation crafted of vengeance upon my addressing of compulsive holy, vile prayers, simpering as you bellow, “Nay, Lord Phoebus, turn your smile curled of fury- Nay!”

& I pray he strikes you

I pray, I pray, I pray

the way [Homer] mused about My Lord Lykios, “his bow & his quiver upon his shoulder, & the arrows rattled on his back with the rage that trembled within him. He sat himself down away from the ships with a face as dark as night, & his silver bow rang death as he shot his arrow in the midst of them.” He heard my trembling prayers of scorn, descending from the heavens of a beseech of vengeance upon the bigotry of thou, you were sought & by his scythe of ravage torment of vermin like that of crow turned all lithe & blithe into curses of stythe, you hath subdued!

& to my avail, you writhed in grotesque discombobulation amongst the desecration of the lands of your abhorrent, loathly, odious flesh, quivering in orgasms of the Daemons that posses thee, following the biddings of Apollon to shatter your bones of revulsion, penetrate your organs with it’s undermost violent hysterics in demise of your boiling crimson blood to seep through your heinous skin, to set ablaze your mind with deranged mares of screeching nightingales of sorrow & murks of murder, to slay you, & before His glory, you were victim of his slay & in frenzied laughter dripping in venom, I boasted in my content of the contempt, “I prayed He slay, I prayed He slay, I prayed He slay!”

& I pray he spites you

I pray, I pray, I pray

He, He who is the light, the truth, the way, bringer of evil & plague, granted his steadfast devotees with the blessing of the curse of slaughter upon those befouled with curdled, tainted mortal ichor, a concoction of his hatred constructed of lustful cravings of revenge, death with His perishes of decaying physiques littered with rotting, festering, puss wounds, of His wicked disfigured malevolence that were foretold in tales of the sinister side of the scorching sol only disguised in glamours of His charm & demure winsome, sealed by the morbid & magickcal kiss of a witch, a brew

& to my sullen, sunken eyes laced of ecstasy at the sight of your mind warping in convoluted brooding, your body curling & disintegrating in open wounds of lurching red in ways painful & unimaginable to the mortal planes of the cerebrum, I am instilled in earthquakes of essence for My Lord Neomenius, forevermore devoted & grateful for His enigmatic, fathomless love for my obeying corazon, as I crooned in tender euphoria, my eyes smiling & turning as He took you body corrupted of filth & began to flay, “I prayed & He flayed, I prayed He flayed, I prayed & He flayed.”

I look to My Lord for the vendetta upon those who deserve to retch on the hellfire they prove in their existence.

& I pray as I offer the guayaba to my saccharine, lovingly docile, divine God as his lips bestowed my skin in warm, sugary kisses in oath that He would avenge thine wrongdoing, & so my cross resentment liberated with the plague anointed arrows that My Dear Lord Mealioukhos Tyrannea dispersed into your forsaken body; for this, I thank & devote to thee Apollon.

// z.g.r, February 15th 2019

Authors Note:

YO! So uh, yeah. I wrote this today and it was kind of a vent poem. It’s a shitty first draft, but I don’t intend on fixing the errors in it. I never do that with my poems; I never fix what I’ve written. But I’m proud I wrote a poem today in Lord Apollon’s name. It’s about his taste for vengeance and his willingness to destroy those who hurt his devotees. It’s about his dark side, ya know. (‘:

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a poem for Apollo

sometimes he burns so brightly

that i cannot see him

but i look anyway

he of the ashes

that rain down around me, all that remains

of our enemies

apollo sotir, apollo savior

he who utters a war cry

blood drips from my ears and his scream is mine

rouser of armies

apollo ilios, apollo invoked with a cry

he of the wild cry

my feet pound against the dirt, teeth bared against the frost

wolfish lord, apollo lykios

apollo neomenius, he of the new moon

descending like the night

resting in the negative space

words whispered in the darkness, telling of bleak futures

apollo kledones, apollo omen

tracks of fire across the sky,

apollon emos, carry me far

apollo erasmius, apollo psychodotir, apollo olbiodotes, they forget

the light is always warm and giving

before it burns.

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There are a lot of titles for Apollon describing His immense power and the destruction He brought on people who wronged. But I’d like you to know that Apollon is also

Charopis - He who brings joy

Philios - Friendly and affectionate

Patir/Patroos - The father

Kourotrophous - Nurturer of children

Olbiodotes - He who fills our soul with bliss

Phanaeus - He who brings light

Thermius - Warm

Pantothales - He who makes everything bloom

Cerdous - Beneficial, fruitful one

Sotir - Saviour

Psychodotir - Giver of souls

Biodotir - Giver of livelihood

Ploutodotir - Giver of riches

Erasmius - Lovely, beloved

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