#hellanismos

[hellanistpunk]

I very good thread to show how everyones experience with a diety is different!! As we are all different people so what they can aid us with and what they think we need is tailored to us.

(I hope i explained that properly im not the best with words )

This is just me venting tbh, sorry for using your askbox to do that, but...I'm just so tired of seeing Apollo always represented as a pale blonde white twink! Iʾve seen other representations of him but that's by far the one that I see the most. It just doesn't match up with how he appears to me, and this stereotype that he is some carefree himbo??? Where does that come from? He might crack a joke from time to time but he's far more serious than that! I guess I'm just mad on his behalf lol 😄

Lol @rosegoldtunic and I have this exact conversation every time we talk! I’m not even exaggerating! Every single time we Skype we talk about how a lot of people don’t actually know all the aspects of Apollo and because of that he gets labeled as the dumb dramatic pretty boy.

Apollo is the god of many things but what gets emphasized the most is the art and creative aspect. Yet Apollo is also the god of truth, philosophy, knowledge, science, math, and civilization. I mean we have to remember he gave us the Delphic Maxims. And if you read them you can clearly see that this boy is not out there causing trouble and pulling pranks with Hermes and Dionysus. He’s much more likely to be the buzz kill or designated driver.

Apollo is responsible, blunt, strict, logical, and rational. But I think because of the emphasis on his role in music and poetry people get confused since our society has very strict views on how we see creatives vs intellectuals.

Creative people are seen as being emotional and beautiful creatures. Living life outside of the expectations of society. Basically Dionysus. (Tbh a lot of how some people view Apollo is really more Dionysus imo)

Intellectual people are seen as logical, rational, almost emotionless, even cold. And while humanity is learning to not separate intelligence and beauty, I still believe its easier for people to associate Apollo’s level of beauty with creativity than intelligence.

Also when we think about the exact areas of art Apollo represents it really is more about technique and structure than creativity that comes purely from emotions.

Aela said it the best when she said that Apollo is the technical aspect of art while its Dionysus who is the emotions of art. (also people forget there are other creative gods like Athena and Aphrodite and esp Hephaestus. It’s my argument that Hephaestus is the real god of art and creativity but that’s a topic for another post)

So ultimately i think these stereotypes and separations mixed with the lack of knowledge about who Apollo actually is and what he represents has caused a lot of misconceptions and misinformation about him.

I’ve been thinking about writing an entire post about this since like i said Aela and me have been talking about it a lot and Apollo and I have been getting closer and I just feel compelled to clear some things up for him. Esp bc he’s arguably the most popular god so I feel like we should all at the very least know the basics about him.