Apollo’s history is a confusing one. The Greeks made him the son of Leto, a goddess known as Lat in Southern Palestine, but he was also a god of the Hyperboreans (‘beyond-theNorth-Wind-men’), whom Hecataeus (Diodorus Siculus) clearly identified with the British, though Pindar (Pythian Odes) regarded them as Libyans. Delos was the centre of this Read More
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The History of the Myth of Hyperborean Apollo
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Also tagged Apollo, Brizo, delphi, Horus, hyperboreans, Leto, Libya, Phocis, St. Brigit, Tityus
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