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Apollo Belenus was a healing and sun god. [54] Apollo Cunomaglus ("hound lord"). A title given to Apollo at a shrine at Nettleton Shrub, Wiltshire. May have been a god of healing. Cunomaglus himself may originally have been an independent healing god. [55] Apollo Grannus. Grannus was a healing spring god, later equated with Apollo. [56] [57] [58]
Chariot fitting representing Usil, 500–475 BCE, Hermitage Museum. Usil is the Etruscan god of the sun, shown to be identified with Apulu ().His iconic depiction features Usil rising out of the sea, with a fireball in either outstretched hand, on an engraved Etruscan bronze mirror in late Archaic style, formerly on the Roman antiquities market. [1]
The god was venerated as Apollo Belenus at the curative shrine of Sainte-Sabine (Burgundy), where he was invoked by pilgrims seeking cures for their sickness. If Belenus is interpreted as meaning 'shining, brilliant', it can be compared to the Celtic epithet Vindonnus (from * windo - 'white'), attached to Apollo as a deity who restored light ...
Apollo (Phoebus) – Greek god of healing, archery, music and arts, sunlight, knowledge, and patron of Delphi. Regarded as a great warrior and as the most beautiful of the gods. [3] Eros (Cupid, Amor) – god of love and sex; also known for his use of bow and arrow. He was often depicted as a winged boy, beginning in the Hellenistic period.
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.
In ancient Greek religion, the sun deity was the male god Helios, [234] who in later times was syncretized with Apollo. [235] In ancient Roman culture, Sunday was the day of the sun god. In paganism, the Sun was a source of life. It was the center of a popular cult among Romans, who would stand at dawn to catch the first rays of sunshine as ...
[379] Apollo was associated with the Sun as early as the fifth century BC, though widespread conflation between him and the Sun god was a later phaenomenon. [380] The earliest certain reference to Apollo being identified with Helios appears in the surviving fragments of Euripides' play Phaethon in a speech near the end. [101]
In the Olympian scheme, the king of gods Zeus is the father of her twins, [2] Apollo and Artemis, whom Leto conceived after her hidden beauty accidentally caught the eye of Zeus. Classical Greek myths record little about Leto other than her pregnancy and search for a place where she could give birth to Apollo and Artemis, since Hera , the wife ...