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Apollo piercing with his arrows Tityos, who has tried to rape his mother Leto (c. 450–440 BC) Leto was threatened and assailed in her wanderings by ancient earth creatures that had to be overcome, chthonic monsters of the ancient earth and old ways, and these became the enemies of Apollo and Artemis for attempting to cause harm to their mother.
Apollo Creed first appears in the 1976 Oscar-winning film Rocky as the charismatic, intelligent, and undefeated nearly 33-year-old World Heavyweight Champion.A planned bicentennial fight against number-one contender Mac Lee Green was scheduled for January 1, 1976; however, Green hurt his left hand in training, and other top-ranked contenders were either busy or claimed they didn't have enough ...
Carl Weathers (January 14, 1948 – February 2, 2024) was an American actor, director and gridiron football player. His prominent roles included boxer Apollo Creed in the first four Rocky films (1976–1985), Colonel Al Dillon in Predator (1987), Chubbs Peterson in Happy Gilmore (1996), and Combat Carl in the Toy Story franchise.
Grannus was a healing spring god, later equated with Apollo. [56] [57] [58] Apollo Maponus. A god known from inscriptions in Britain. This may be a local fusion of Apollo and Maponus. Apollo Moritasgus ("masses of sea water"). [clarification needed] An epithet for Apollo at Alesia, where he was worshipped as the god of healing and, possibly, of ...
(Reuters) -Actor Carl Weathers, a former professional American football player who shot to stardom by playing the brash and charismatic boxer Apollo Creed in the "Rocky" movies, died on Thursday ...
LOS ANGELES — Carl Weathers, the actor best known as Apollo Creed in the “Rocky” movies and more recently for his role in the hit "Star Wars" series "The Mandalorian," died Thursday in his ...
The Greek name Φοίβη Phoíbē is the feminine form of Φοῖβος Phoîbos meaning "pure, bright, radiant", an epithet given to Apollo as a sun-god. [2] [3] [4] Phoebe was also an epithet of Artemis as a moon-goddess.
Amy Carlson (November 30, 1975 – c. April 16, 2021), also known by her followers as Mother God, was an American cult leader and the co-founder of the new religious movement Love Has Won. [1] Carlson and her followers believed that she was God, a 19-billion-year-old being, and a reincarnation of Jesus Christ , and that she could heal people of ...