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gingermintpepper · 4 months ago

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Someday, eventually, I will get an opportunity to talk about Celtic Apollo.

I see a lot of discussions and content (light-hearted and not) talking about Greek Apollo and Roman Apollo but y'all don't understand; it wasn't just that Greek Apollo had a second Roman Apollo hidden in his pocket, it's that Greek Apollo also has a secret third Celtic Apollo hidden behind his back like a tramp stamp he got in college and refuses to acknowledge or show to anyone.

#ginger rambles #Even then it wasn't secret or hidden at all #According to a couple sources but most relevantly Pindar Apollo would spend his winters in Hyperborea because he works entirely too much #the other nine months of the year #Hyperborea was actually England y'all it was England this whole time #It's hilarious btw because obvi Boreas the literal winter wind was the Greeks' big concept of cold? And Hyperborea was considered #even more north than Boreas hence the name and I just love the idea of the thing that is more cold than even winter itself being England #Anyway Celtic Apollo is rad as hell #He was even sycretised into a bunch of other gods because when the Romans came to do their whole conquering thing #(the first time not the time they succeeded)#They were like “gee wilkers y'all have Apollo too :0” and the Celts were like “???” because they didn't speak Latin #Anyway the real secret is that Celtic Apollo is actually at least three other Apollos in a trenchcoat #Namely Maponos Belenus and Lugh (and yes this is a fun little cross cultural equivalency thing #like the greco-egyptian pantheon equivalents #I won't call Horus Egyptian Apollo because it's more like Horus and Apollo co-evolved like brothers separated at birth #But I also definitely want to call Horus Egyptian Apollo because I'm an Apolline menace #ginger chats about greek myths #apollo #greek mythology

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