#the author is from around the time Nonnus lived so this isn't a modern work either
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Shoutout to this book for having both Apollo and Helios as the sun gods simultaneously. They're both also the physical sun, somehow. 10/10 would love if modern adaptations just said fuck it and had two sun gods (and moon gods) instead of disposing one of them in favor of the other.
#Helios#Apollo#this is a fun and heavily allegorical work#the author is from around the time Nonnus lived so this isn't a modern work either#but I honestly don't know how to feel about it Hermes/Mercury wedding Philology has no precedence#afaik at least#the story seems to be completely invented by the author and not derived from oral traditions#not that he's the only author to have invented things for the sake of literature#besides#some religious/cult aspects of certain gods is also mentioned#so I think some parts of it do reflect actual religious beliefs and practices followed at that time#but then I haven't really looked into the scholarly reception of this book yet#so i could be wrong#mine#Martianus Capella
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