Ancient Civilizations Worship of Apollo
For many centuries, Greeks, Romans, Persians and Egyptians turned to Apollo, the lunar God, in hopes of being granted good fortune. This show chronicles the sanctuaries built in Apollo's honor, and includes Delos in the Cyclades, Delphi in the region of Phocis and Didymi in Ionia.
Delphi (/ˈdɛlfaɪ/ or /ˈdɛlfi/; Greek: Δελφοί, [ðelˈfi]) is both an archaeological site and a modern town in Greece on the south-western spur of Mount Parnassus in the valley of Phocis. In myths dating to the classical period of Ancient Greece (510-323 BCE), the site of Delphi was believed to be determined by Zeus when he sought to find the centre of his "Grandmother Earth" (Ge, Gaea, or Gaia). He sent two eagles flying from the eastern and western extremities, and the path of the eagles crossed over Delphi where the omphalos, or navel of Gaia was found.
Earlier myths include traditions that Pythia, or the Delphic oracle, already was the site of an important oracle in the pre-classical Greek world (as early as 1400 BCE) and, rededicated, served as the major site during classical times for the worship of the god Apollo after he slew Python, "a dragon" who lived there and protected the navel of the Earth. "Python" (derived from the verb pythein, "to rot") is claimed by some to be the original name of the site in recognition of Python which Apollo defeated. The Homeric Hymn to Delphic Apollo recalled that the ancient name of this site had been Krisa. Others relate that it was named Pytho and that Pythia, the priestess serving as the oracle, was chosen from their ranks by a group of priestesses who officiated at the temple.
Apollo's sacred precinct in Delphi was a panhellenic sanctuary, where every four years, starting in 586 BCE athletes from all over the Greek world competed in the Pythian Games, one of the four panhellenic (or stephanitic) games, precursors of the Modern Olympics. The victors at Delphi were presented with a laurel crown (stephanos) which was ceremonially cut from a tree by a boy who re-enacted the slaying of the Python. Delphi was set apart from the other games sites because it hosted the mousikos agon, musical competitions.
These Pythian Games rank second among the four stephanitic games chronologically and based on importance. These games, though, were different from the games at Olympia in that they were not of such vast importance to the city of Delphi as the games at Olympia were to the area surrounding Olympia. Delphi would have been a renowned city whether or not it hosted these games; it had other attractions that led to it being labeled the "omphalos" (navel) of the earth, in other words, the center of the world.
In the inner hestia ("hearth") of the Temple of Apollo, an eternal flame burned. After the battle of Plataea, the Greek cities extinguished their fires and brought new fire from the hearth of Greece, at Delphi; in the foundation stories of several Greek colonies, the founding colonists were first dedicated at Delphi.
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Great documentary. Love the last lines: “Apollo... the Brilliant God, the God of Light and Truth, the Paragon of Male Beauty who embodied all the values they held dear, and who could guide them through their lives. It was to Apollo that the Greeks entrusted their future.”
Can't this be revived? The temples?The worship? This is fascinating and at the same time sad because of how it ended
@yarazooom
5 жыл бұрын
ITS on YT called ''tarot readings'' and worship of BRAD PITT
@exyronylfa
4 жыл бұрын
i hope someday someone will rebuilt it bc i still pray for Hestia
@sherylcrowe3255
Жыл бұрын
Build it and they will come...
@Goodwalker720
Жыл бұрын
When they wanted to portray Jesus as divine, they transferred most of apollos traits. So the ideas are still around even if they look different.
@gabrielleangelica1977
Жыл бұрын
Ask the Witches! 🎑 It's called neopaganism...
I still worship Apollo he's my Patron
@oracleowen
7 жыл бұрын
Janel Rodrigues So La Re En Lo 😉
@Apollo416
6 жыл бұрын
Ditto
@alexcooljas1999
5 жыл бұрын
Who is your mateon then?
@maddiebaker4010
3 жыл бұрын
I really want to start working with him and I know he’s reaching out to me, any advice?
@phoebusapollo4865
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you
Thank you for this fascinating documentary. I will remember, nor could I forget, far-shooting Apollo, whom gods tremble before as in Zeus’s abode he is striding- then as he comes up close to the place they are sitting, they leap up, all of them, out of their seats, as he stretches his glittering bow back.
It is such a honor to worship him!🙌🏽Too bad it’s in ruins😥
Apollo along with Mithra of Persia was the christos and logos before Jesus.Hail Lord Apollo son of Zeus.
Very nice documentary thanks for posting
🔆 Khaire Phoebus Apollon 🔆
I love you all Apollo Steven xxx
Thank you
I work with apollo and wanted to learn more about how the ancients worshiped him. I love this documentary. Hail apollo god of light, son of zues
@Texasmade74
8 ай бұрын
You can't work with Gods but you can worship them
Pythia purified herself in Cassotid spring, not in Castalian. The people who came to the oracle washed themselves in Castalian spring.
Apollo was the solar god, not the lunar god.
@jjh2456
3 жыл бұрын
Apollo was the God of Light. Helios is the solar god.
@Texasmade74
8 ай бұрын
@jjh2456 later on the two became mixed
History of Greeks was so rich and still can help the Greeks to understand themselves
Went to Delhi
Seruminguisic Remeilius Sentriminats Drath.
How did the Greeks swap Apollo for Jesus !!!!
@yarazooom
5 жыл бұрын
the roman-egyptians...coptics....check out BBC SERIES TIMELINE called DARK AGES: AGE OF LIGHT it has 1 hour about this Phnom
@andrewwebber8207
4 жыл бұрын
Jewish trick
@kalel8885
4 жыл бұрын
apollo=jesus=thor the same person
@La-meiga-celtibera
3 жыл бұрын
@@kalel8885 Jewsus is a mythical character while our European gods are real gods/spirits. Thor has a very different role and characteristics from Apollo. Plus Thor’s hair is red/orange while Apollo’s hair a blond. They are both amazing gods though.
@La-meiga-celtibera
3 жыл бұрын
They got forced to believe in this stupid religion. It was either convert or die. It was done like that all around Europe and the Americas, probably even done to Africans and Asians.
I love them....their culture and the people lived in their time ♥ Too bad that fanatic christians burn and destroyed such a beautiful culture. The great loss in human history. Now we have very little to study the past. I hate fanatics of any destructive or violent nature. It never does any good. Ugh~
@pastelskies8466
2 жыл бұрын
Christianity murdered, conquered, perverted, grifted and oppressed far worse than some cultures. Not surprising the worst hypocrites are modern conservatives.
Sorry, I follow his twin, the amazing huntress Artemis.
@Slowhil
Ай бұрын
Congrats?
The last thing the noble Greek pagans did was to convert to Christianity. ‘The threshing floor is no more and the springs that spoke are now dumb.’
@Texasmade74
8 ай бұрын
You don't know anything about history
@vincentmcnabb939
8 ай бұрын
I’m as close to a classical scholar that you will ever meet. I’m just back from Delos and am currently reading: ‘Why the Delphic oracles are no longer given in hexameter verse’. An essay by the great Plutarch who was a pagan priest at Delphi. I am quoting the last Delphic oracle apparently given. Admittedly, it could well be a Christian adage, but its style is very much in line with the Delphic tradition. Regardless what I wrote concerning the pagan Greeks is of course true - the last thing they did was to convert to Christianity.
If it wasn't for the Turkish and the Persians as they were jealous of what the Greeks had....... Who knows how the life would have been in today's world. But don't forget that the Persians were always attacking the Greeks before Alexander the great. But after Alexander was born he conquered all the way to India. Because it was a big lesson!! But not to make slaves just to share his culture to them.
@therealvlad505
9 ай бұрын
Wasn't Alexander defeated at the Indus River? So he didn't actually conquer India.