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gingermintpepper · 2 months

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Writing Apollo-as-a-young-deity is fun because sometimes it involves completely making shit up based on the loose outline of a story told through old poems, prayers and plays and other times it involves researching the totally legit and well documented ancient art of studying sheep livers to make sure your statesmen don't accidentally piss off Jupiter.

In completely unrelated news, if anyone has any recommendations for books about bird augury, that'd be wonderful.

#ginger rambles #ginger chats about greek myths #apollo #part of why the next part of manent is taking so long is because traditional greek divination is an incredibly involved process #with many sub-arts and studies that all have their own variations developments and places in terms of usage and context #Apollo's sons especially the ones who were skilled seers often had their specific specialty of divination stated/which divination skills #Papapollo passed on to them #Idmon was great with entrail divination apparently #and Iamus was taught bird augury - specifically how to listen to their calls and predict the future from their flight patterns #Calchas the diviner in the Iliad? He was also a bird diviner #Really interesting stuff that's severely underutilised when it comes to portraying stories dealing with prophecy and Apollo #They were skills to be mastered y'all not magic #Anyway save me George Sarton wah wah wah #I absolutely should be sleeping LMFAO

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