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The Sixty Three Adorations of Apollon

Hail Apollon, cherished son of Zeus, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, cherished son of Leto, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, delivered by Artemis, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, rejoiced by Artemis, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, attended by Themis, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, gifted by the arts of Pan, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, gracious father of Asklepios, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, celebrated among Hyperboreians, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, bearer of Helios’ flame, I give adoration unto you.

Hail Apollon, lord named destroyer, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, of the golden sword, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, of the silver bow, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, archer far-shooting, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, slayer of mice, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, lord of the cemetary, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, deliverer from fear, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, praised by the paian, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, marshaller of the host, I give adoration unto you.

Hail Apollon, lord of the harmonic art, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, leader of the daughters of Mnemosyne, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, master of the kithara, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, drawer of the golden string, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, singer of the divine word, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, maker of the beautiful sound, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, of the laurel circlet, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, purifier by the laurel bough, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, restorer of blessed health, I give adoration unto you.

Hail Apollon, protector of children, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, delighting in the songs of boys, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, bringer of youths into manhood, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, father of Hymenaios, blesser of marriages, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, slayer of righteous men, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, receiver of the dead, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, protector of the cemetaries, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, champion of humanity, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, lord of freedom, I give adoration unto you.

Hail Apollon, keeper of sacred laws, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, crowner of victors at the games, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, deliverer of Zeus’ will, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, of truthful speech, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, establisher of equality in assembly, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, protector of the assembly, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, uniter in equal law, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, divider of good from bad, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, weilder of justice, I give adoration unto you.

Hail Apollon, turner of seasons, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, of the bright chariot, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, charioteer of dragons, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, great cultivator, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, ripener of vines and crops, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, delighter in orchards, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, divine shepherd of the pastures, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, receiver of Kore, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, celebrant of Dionysos, I give adoration unto you.

Hail Apollon, torch-bearing lord of light, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, lord of the boundary, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, lord of the winding road, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, gryphon-born king, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, king of the axis, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, lauded by singing swans, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, two-formed Bacchian king, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, ram-horned Karnean king, I give adoration unto you. Hail Apollon, of golden hair unshorn, I give adoration unto you.

Hail Apollon! Khaire Apollon! My beloved God, I will never tire of praising you.

credit: beloved in light blog

The 63 Adorations of Apollon

The following adorations have been created in a format that multiple two sacred numbers of Apollon (7 and 9) for its structure. Each segment

[hermitslibrary]

"in orphic thought, dionysos and apollo were two different revelations of the same divinity.

dionysos represented esoteric truth, the foundation and interior of things, open to initiates alone. he held the mysteries of life, past and future existences, the relations between soul and body, heaven and earth.

apollo personified the same truth applied to life on earth and social order. the inspirer of poetry, medicine, and laws, he was science by divination, beauty by art, peace among nations by justice, and harmony between soul and body by purification.

in a word, to the initiate dionysos signified nothing less than the divine spirit in evolution in the universe; and apollo, the manifestation thereof to mankind on earth."

source: pythagoras and the delphic mysteries, by edouard shuré (ch. 3, pg. 35)

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Summer Solstice

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Apollo. 19th.century. follower of Charles Meynier French 1768-1832. oil/canvas. http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

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Apollo and Aurora

Artist: Gerard de Lairesse (Dutch, 1641–1711)

Date: 1671

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States

Description

Largely forgotten today, De Lairesse was celebrated in his lifetime as a painter and advocate for an idealizing manner based on the study of classical antiquity. This work, likely destined to hang over the mantelpiece in a grand Amsterdam home, depicts the sun god consorting with the goddess of the dawn, a popular subject in French and Italian painting at the time. The attractively individualized young faces have led to speculation that they may be disguised portraits of a newly married couple.

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the divine twins in nature: apollo and artemis

posted by lykeia of apollon on wordpress

"in euripedes aclestis there is a great quote in his confrontation with thanatos that I frequently use in which apollon challenges that death should only come for that which is ripe for it. this is part of the harmony of his divine song. he ages and matures things until they are ripe for their destruction, just as he holds off foul weather for the fruits to ripen to plant new seeds.

although he is the destroying force in nature, it is to a purpose, just as his warding the living from his destructive forces is to a purpose. destruction is necessary to breed life... as a destructive god (and preserving god by warding off these forces) he is the god of every natural force which destroys life."

destructive forces associated with apollon:

➼ god of locus and mice (which bring plague / famine)

➼ wolves

➼ winds

➼ fire ; loosely paired with the sun and its heat

➼ carrion eating creatures

➼ ravens

"artemis as the sustaining and nurturing part of nature is the energy of the natural world... ultimately she is that which is always propelling life forward. if apollon is the dance and the path, then she is the dancer and the one hunting prey down the forest trails. she vitalizes that which he orchestrates from the moment she receives the new life, and pursues forward each living being into growth as an bow launches and arrow."

life-giving forces associated with artemis:

➼ the provision of food, both through the hunt and lactation, even the welfare of crops

➼ "powerful females of the animal kingdom" such as bears, lionesses, even dogs, "who not only lovingly care for large litters but exemplify the protective and loyal part of her nature"

➼ creatures which represent the wealth of food, such as rabbits and hares.

➼ the way the moon increases and decreases, "in which the growth of life is aptly symbolized"

read the article in full:

Apollon, Artemis and Action of Nature

I remarked in a conversation with a friend yesterday that it seems to me if I were trying to simplify the domains of Apollon and Artemis tha

[apisceslearnsart]

The Joy of Life by Henri Matisse

1906

It is a large-scale painting that depicts an Arcadian landscape filled with brilliantly-colored forest, meadow, sea, and sky and populated by nude figures both at rest and in motion.

As with the earlier Fauve canvases, color is responsive only to emotional expression and the formal needs of the canvas, not the realities of nature. it is influenced by ideas drawn from Watteau, Poussin, Japanese woodcuts, Persian miniatures, and 19th-century Orientalist images of harems. The scene is made up of independent motifs arranged to form a complete composition. The massive painting and its shocking colors received mixed reviews at the Salon des Indépendants. Critics noted its new style broad fields of color and linear figures, a clear rejection of Paul Signac's celebrated Pointillism.

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beautiful matching frescoes of apollo and artemis in genoa

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ʚɞ giovanni battista aka il bergamasco apollo's struggle with cupid (1560) fresco loggia di apollo, villa pallavicino delle peschiere, genoa image source: finestre sull' arte ─── ⋆⋅ ☀⋅⋆ ───

ʚɞ luca cambiaso the struggle between diana and the satyr (1561) fresco loggia di apollo, villa pallavicino delle peschiere, genoa image source: finestre sull' arte ─── ⋆⋅ ☾⋅⋆ ───

information source: web gallery of art

ʚɞ "the villa [pallavicino delle peschiere in italy] owes its fame not only to its architecture and location, but also to a particularly extensive decorative program of frescoes on the piano nobile. the decoration extends through a vestibule, the adjoining large salon (the salone), two symmetrically adjoining side rooms, and two loggias which at that time opened toward the south.

ʚɞ the fresco decoration of the salone and the loggias are attuned to each other: in the east (loggia di apollo), the chariot of the sun god apollo in the ceiling fresco rides across the sky in the direction of the sunrise, while in the west (loggia di diana), the moon goddess diana leads her team of horses. above the passage from the loggias into the salone, there are two over-door paintings."

ʚɞ "in the loggia di apollo, one can see at this location an argument between apollo and cupid. apollo - overconfident after having killed the python with arrows - mocks the little archer. cupid obtains his revenge and proves his superior power by enflaming the god to love with a shot from his bow."

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ʚɞ "in the loggia di diana, the chaste diana must protect herself against sensual longing as a lusty satyr tries to seize her. anyone entering the salone from the loggias is reminded by the images that even the noble olympians were not safe from love's onslaught.

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ʚɞ the frescoes in the loggias were painted by two different artists. The apollo and cupid was executed by giovan battista castello (called il bergamasco), who was also responsible for the decoration in the salone, and diana and satyr by luca cambiaso. in the two contest scenes, the artists thus compete with each other."

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Girl in yellow Drapery (1901) by John William Godward

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apollo crowned by victory

noël coypel apollo crowned by victory (1667-68) oil on canvas (214 x 115 cm) musée du louvre, paris

"in the years 1667–68 coypel, like most of the important painters of his generation, worked on the decoration of the tuileries palace in paris, being entrusted with the wall and ceiling paintings in the appartement du roi, on the upper floor of the palace. several of these are extant. part of the same decorative scheme were apollo crowned by victory and apollo crowned by minerva (both in the louvre). these pictures show coypel's typical classicizing, academic treatment of the body and face." (source: web gallery of art)

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Branch of Lemons (1883) by Claude Monet

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Peaches (1883) by Claude Monet

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Leochares, Apollo Belvedere, 330 - 320 B.C. Roma.

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Apollo Belvedere, 1704. Claude Randon French (1674 - 1704) engraving.  http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

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Statue d'Apollon (Apollon du Belvédère)

Painted by the French artist Charles Meynier (1768-1832) in either 1794 or 1795, this oil on canvas artwork depicts the statue of Apollo Belvedere, one of the most famous statues of the Ancient God. It is 3 meters in height and 1.53 meters in width, towering over the viewer.

The gallery of art created by Meynier is full of other examples of paintings based off Ancient legends, myths, and stories.

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Apollo Belvedere (AKA Belvedere Apollo, Apollo of the Belvedere, Pythian Apollo), marble, 2nd c. A.D. Now in the Vatican Museums. (Photo by Livioandronico2013, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license)