#Apollo ily but you did not do a good job protecting Zagreus sjduejsh | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

my-name-is-apollo · 3 months ago

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You know, reading the Orphic fragments...for a god who is basically absent from Dionysus' childhood, Apollo was much more involved in Zagreus' life.

Apparently, Apollo was appointed to guard Zagreus and he tried stopping the child from going to the Titans. After the Titans tore him apart, Apollo either buried his body parts in Delphi, or in other versions he just put Zagreus back together.

You'd think he'd be interested in having a hand in Dionysus' upbringing too, but no. The explanation I came to with in my head is that he was either too traumatized with the Zagreus incident, or he didn't get involved in order to keep Dionysus on a low profile.

#apollo #zagreus #dionysus #anyway when I read yesterday that Apollo tried to stop his brother from approaching the titans #i was devastated #shattered I tell you #Apollo ily but you did not do a good job protecting Zagreus sjduejsh #hc that Apollo actually took the body for burial #but he was so beside himself with guilt and sorrow that just ended up stitching back the parts and bringing it back to life #anyway Zagreus has got me interested in him tbh #I'm interested in him for one specific thing and that for that only #I'll post about it later but yeah #I'm having the feels tbh #mine

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