#apaliunas

[andros-paidophonoio]

Son of Apollo makes a fatal mistake.

Also was reading “In search of Anatolian Apollo” which talks about Apaliunas’ role as the “hunter” (one who ensnares), which is interesting because Cassandra is the one who designates Troilus as the “ensnarer” because in a way he “caught” Achilles and was a stumbling block to his doom—an interesting reversal of his usual passive “prey” role in the story.Also this footnote from it caught my eye:

troilus falling for a very shall we call it, a phantom of the opera situation

[apollosgiftofprophecy]

oh remember your post about apollo’s relationship with gods from other pantheons? and you mentioned the hittites? well i’ve been rereading THO and during music class apollo mentions how he created the guitar during a crazy party with the hittites 😭

HOLY SHIT WELL THERE WE HAVE IT

They DO stay in contact with each other!!!!!

Okay okay, WHAT IF-

Apollo & Apaliunas are still separate gods, but they also share brain space at times. Like. more often than not it's Apaliunas getting shlorped into Apollo's head because he's the older version of him and during those times Apollo's more Hittite than Greek.

Same with Aplu. Apollo becomes more of an Italian-Etruscan god, Celtic with Grannus, Phoenician with Resheph, ect.

WHAT DO WE THINK TOA FANDOM?

[andros-paidophonoio]

Dreams of my father, the Hunter (Troilus and Āppaliunāš/Apollo)

I know there’s interesting discussion on whether or not Troilus is originally son of Apollo or not, but one of my sort of thoughts for my headcanon world is like…what if its a Schrödinger’s situation where whatever the truth is, that’s what he believes to be true, maybe in a childish fantasy way, up til the very end. Anyways I drew a more Hittite inspired figure, I think its neat how Āppaliunāš is known more for hunting being “one of Entrapment” while Cassandra in Lycophron’s Alexandra also curiously characterizes Troilus as the one who “smites” and “seizes” Achilles in an “inescapable noose” of doom. Just a thought. But here he is not thinking of that. He’s imagining having a nice warm hug