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**The god Apollo may have been originally worshipped as a pastoral deity of shepherds and flocks. Apollo’s //nomen// (name) may have been derived from //[|Apellon,]// a pre-Homeric deity represented as a gatherer of men and herds who presided over the //appelai//—a Dorian festival for public assemblage and the annual initiation of young tribal members. Apollo was cognate with Etruscan aplu and after the fifth century BCE, He was frequently identified with //Helius//, god of sun, whose solar aspects may have been influenced by the Syro-Phoenician god, El Gabel. But it was as //[|Phoebus]// Apollo (//Phoebus// meaning "bright" or "pure"), that Apollo was most widely recognized. Apollo was the only [|Hellenic] god Who entered the Roman [|pantheon] by His forename.**

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 * He is a god of sunlight, oracular prophesy and visions as well as divination, healing and medicine, archery, law, order, moderation, and of the Muses in the arts, sciences, music and writing. Apollo is also associated with purification and truth. It is said that a lie could never fall from His lips, and as a result all oaths are sworn to Him as proof that they will not be broken.**


 * Relatives that apollo came across in his life were Zues (father), Leto(mother), Artemis(sister), Gaea(grandmother) Coecus, Phoebe(matemal grandparents), Aristaeus, Asclepicus, Janus, Linus, philammon(son), troilius(son deceased) all his family members.**

He was the god of the archer, far shooting with a silver bow. The god of healing who taught man medicine. The god of light. The god of truth, who can not speak a lie. Apollo was considered to have dominion over disease, beauty, light, healing, colonists, medicine, archery, poetry, prophecy, dance, reason, intellectualism, and shamans, and was the patron defender of herds and flocks.