God of the Day : Apollo, god of music🎶, poetry📝, art🎨, oracles🔮, archery🏹, plague☣️, medicine💊, sun🌞 , light🕯 and knowledge📚 (in the first picture : Apollo Belvedere). Apollo (Attic, Ionic, and Homeric Greek: Ἀπόλλων, Apollōn (GEN Ἀπόλλωνος); Doric: Ἀπέλλων, Apellōn; Arcadocypriot: Ἀπείλων, Apeilōn; Aeolic: Ἄπλουν, Aploun; Latin: Apollō) is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology. The ideal of the kouros (a beardless, athletic youth), Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of music, truth and prophecy, healing, the sun and light, plague, poetry, and more. Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis. Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as Apulu. As the leader of the Muses (Apollon Musegetes) and director of their choir, Apollo functioned as the patron god of music and poetry. Hermes created the lyre for him, and the instrument became a common attribute of Apollo. Hymns sung to Apollo were called paeans. Besides dalliances with numerous nymphs (Coronis, Cyrene ecc) Apollo was also lover to Spartan Prince Hyakinthos, who died catching a thrown discus, then turned by the god into the hyacinth flower. The Festival of Hyacinthus was a huge celebration of Sparta, celebrating the prince, the god and same-sex love. It is believed that Apollo has been also with Thracian singer Thamyris. And for those who think same-sex nuptials are a 21st-century invention, Apollo also was in a relationship with Hymen, the god of marriage. He slept with a lot of other men, such as Cyparrissus, Lapis, Phorbas ecc
