#anatolian god doesnt make him the same god?
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Girl you’re dumb as shit and that person was too. In case you didn’t know Apollo is an Anatolian god who is already poc. Your little white American author removing everything but Greek from him (which still doesn’t make him white 💀💀💀) only means you need to take more history classes and riordan needs his degree taken away. Please go fucking lords sake learn the difference between representation and black washing.
Friend you need to calm down a bit before you break a blood vessel over something that doesn't matter - I'm no expert your right they didn't teach old religions or mythology in my history class - that being said I do know that a lot of different religions (and even people in those religions) can have different versions of the same god it's how apollo is both a Greek and roman god but that being said the apollo that shows up in rick Riordans book is his version of the god its his character not the god himself it allows Rick to take some libraries with the character and that includes their designs - he's not the only one to do this either a lot of people who use the Greek gods in their books, games, shows will usually give them their own unique design on the characters- rick picturing apollo as white or me picturing him as black isn't a big deal
#ask#anon#also currect me if im wrong#ive only been able to do a quick google search on it#and the academic articles were behind a pay wall#but just bc apollo was based on the#anatolian god doesnt make him the same god?#religions steal things from each other all the time#its just what it is#i dont know tell me if im wrong#maybe be a wee bit more polite then anon was lmao#like i dont really care anyone who uses the term black washing isnt really worth the time of day#but curious about this now
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