Surrounding myself in Greek Mythology

Living in Bath is almost perfect when it comes to surrounding myself in the world of Greek mythology, as the Romans were very heavily influenced by the Greeks, the architectures especially. When walking around Bath the buildings and architecture is very similar to that of Greece.

The more the time goes on with this project, the more I am realizing just how much Greek culture and mythology come into our everyday lives.

Here are just a few of the things I have noticed whilst living my daily life -

Hermes - delivery company, relating to Hermes - messenger of the Gods
Minerva - The roman name for Athena - our university system is named Minerva, but I also see this very often walking around bath
Pandora - like Pandora’s box, Jewelry company
Chronos - King of the titans and God of Time - we use this in many time related words eg. Chronological.

Which Gods to focus on?

After my tutorial with Kellie, we decided that 12 gods would be too many for me to do in the short amount of time there is left, so we discussed maybe focusing on 3-4 gods, which I believe would be a good number as mathematically it still works - 3&4 are both factors of 12 and this means I would be able to complete these shoots to a much better level than if I were to focus on all 12 gods.

I decided to focus on the 4 gods which I found the most aesthetic, these are

Athena - Goddess of war and Wisdom

Poseidon - God of seas and earthquakes

Zeus - God of gods and storms

Aphrodite - Goddess of Love and Beauty

Tutorial with Stephen

I showed Stephen the plan I have for my final project and we discussed which shoot should be in what animation area.

Trojan Horse - should be in the Zoetrope as it related to Muybridge’s work

Icarus melting wings - in the projection or even on a screen if possible

Pandora’s Box - Box with a flip box on the inside that will show the animation when you open the box.

We also discussed that wax may not melt as well as I was hoping and not as quickly, so it may be better/ easier to use butter or lard instead to help speed up the process.

It was really helpful to have this tutorial as I needed that little bit of reassurance that it can be done in time and how I can execute the projects.

Stephen asked me why I had the prints on the wall as well as the installations, to which I explained that, I feel that Greek Mythology comes into everyday life and even though it is moving all around us and is evolving as we evolve, it is still there as a still in our everyday’s, so I feel that having that animation and the stills will help to represent this.

Some of my favorite Greek Mythology stories

Growing up in France, we were taught Greek mythology and Greek lettering in our french classes, I always had a very strong connection and passion for the subject and really enjoyed the way my teacher would tell the stories, he was very enthusiastic about it as well. Unfortunately he passed away a few years ago due to a heart attack and so I thought why not create a project based on Greek Mythology in his honor. My favorite stories consist of Pandora’s Box where Pandora was gifted a box full of all the evils in the world and specifically told not to open the box, which of course she did and all the bad things were released into the world onto humanity.

The story of Athena - she was not bared by a mother, instead she fought her way out of Zeus’ skull and managed to make herself a full set of Armour whilst inside his hear, she was a special favorite of the Greeks as she was their protector, hence why their capital city is named Athens. She was named the Goddess of War and Wisdom which caused aggravation with her half Brother Ares, as he was named the God of War. however Athena used a more tactical and strategic approach to her practice whereas Ares was a lot more violent and barbaric. She was the one who gifted the Olive Tree to the Greeks, which is still a very big part of their culture today. I absolutely love how majestic and feminine she is.

The story of Medusa - Medusa had vowed to be celibate her entire life, however when she fell in love with Poseidon, he sexually assaulted her and so Athena punished her for breaking her vows by giving her a head full of snakes, which made her look ugly. She was once known as a beautiful maiden with lovely golden hair. I find this story to be very sad and it is the one thing I dislike about Athena as in reality Medusa did nothing wrong and so she should not have been punished. I do feel it gives her a lot more of an interesting story though as before I learnt about this I always saw her as someone who was just pure evil and turned people to stone for the sake of it, but really she has a very tragic back story.

Melissa the Honey Bee - Zeus and Hera decided to put together a small event where all of the creatures on planet earth would create a substance of their choice and whichever was the tastiest would be granted one wish. They tasted every single recipe, but the choice was really quite easy, Melissa the honey bee had created such a delicious substance that Zeus and Hera fell in love with it. When she was made the winner and asked what her wish was she explained exactly what was going through her mind. Being a honey bee is such hard work, he can take week to create just a teaspoon of honey, and at this point she was the only Bee there was. Her hard work would often be destroyed y bears of other creatures when they are looking for food. So her wish was to be given a lethal sting to get rid of anything trying to steal her honey.
Zeus was not impressed by her wish and he stated that she should not be so selfish and should share her honey. Anyway, they had a bit of an argument where Zeus obviously got very angry and momentarily refused to grant any wish. When he then decided, he would give her an alternative wish, he granted her a sting, however it would not be lethal to others, it would simply cause a slight prick, but it would however be lethal to her if used. He also gave her a colony of other bees in which she would be the Queen. This way the honey business would still be in place and more honey would be created for everyone to enjoy, although the Bees would not be able to sting anything or anyone without suffering severe consequences.

These are some of favorite stories, their are still many more, but this is just a taster of what funny and exciting things went on in this period. Interestingly the last story about Melissa the honey bee, explains exactly why bees, the very useful creatures which with whom we would not be able to live without were given a lethal sting to themselves, whereas Wasps an Hornets can sting people however many times they life! And they are no where near as useful as the honey Bee!!

Tutorial with James #2

Once again, I have been feeling very confused with what I am doing as part of my project, but after speaking with James he has really helped me to have have so many ideas as to what I can do with this project!

I finally feel a lot more excited with this as I have a much better vision of the final outcome!

I did a shoot yesterday of the evolution of a game of chess and was hoping to make a Stop-Motion video out of it, however it really needs to be re shot as it is very rough and the lighting is very off, however James told me to look at Eadweard Muybridge who works with motion projections (further research on him to be done), however this helped me to really think about creating a Zoe-scope of a still life photo shoot, which would almost completely contradict the idea of a Still life.

I am extremely worried that, even thought i Love this idea, it would no longer work with the idea of Greek mythology, so instead of working solely with Gods, I cam thinking of choosing 3 of my favorite Greek stories and representing them in this way. The installation would include a zoe-scope, as well as 2 large print images on the wall of the first and last images.

I finally feel like this project is moving forward and that I have an idea that has an ending! Photographing randomly and trying out different things has really helped to push me to have new exciting ideas.

Mythos #2

Gaea - Earth

Zeus - Water

Athena - Wind

Apollo - Fire

After listening to Mythos some more, Zeus starts to get bored and this is when he asks his good friend Prometheus to create ‘Man’, so he created these creatures using Gaea’s clay (earth), the sun (fire) of Apollo, the saliva (water) of Zeus to be similar feature wise to the Great Gods and finally the breathe (wind) of Athena to bring them to life.

I am considering using these 4 gods now for my project as it a clear 4 Gods whom each hold one of the four elements, however I feel that Zeus holding the element of Water is a bit off as Poseidon is the god of the Sea’s, so I feel this could become quite confusing the viewer of the work. Also as, even thought I am extremely interested and admire Gaea, she is not an Olympian, even though this may not matter as such as she is in fact Zeus’ grandmother and Athena/ Apollo’s Great grandmother, which could be so interesting as this would be 3 generations, which reminds me of my family…. I worry so much that the water element would pose issues….

Tutorial with James

After speaking with James about my current project, he made me realize that I should try to go bigger and more interesting rather than trying to fit everything onto one ‘tableau’, he was saying maybe doing time based shots, as in images of different objects over time, so for Poseidon, possible an ice sculpture melting over a few hours, or for Aphrodite a rose slowly dying.

At first I was sort of against this idea of seeing things almost dissolve through time as the Greek gods are known for being immortals, but then I realized that it really does signify the fact that Greek mythology is all around us but maybe not as common as it would have been back in the ancient Greek times. In other words, even if a rose slowly goes bad, it does not mean there are no more roses left, as soon as we see another we may think of the same concept, and they are always around if you wanted one. So this, would show that even though Aphrodite would at one point have been a lot more present, it does not mean that even if the memory of her has slowly become less common among different cultures and people, that she is not still around today. The same goes for Poseidon and if I was to use an ice sculpture.

Speaking to James, he made me realize that, as I would like for people to go back and research into this topic more to maybe learn about Greek culture (I have notices that I am very interested in helping people educate themselves on different topics such as mental health and people’s cultures and I have learnt a lot about this myself in the past few years) I would need some sort of trigger within my images to make people want to go back and research, so I believe that using a visualizing pleasing aesthetic and objects that I believe connect with Greek Mythology will hopefully attract people into going and researching into the topic more.

Athena

Representations.

The oldest representations of Athene were the palladia. Originally the palladia were stones which were said to have fallen from the sky and to which protective power was attributed.* Later these stones were replaced by statues in wood (xoana) which had the same celestial origin. In them the goddess was depicted with her body sheathed in tight draperies, and in her hands she held a shield and spear. The most celebrated statue of the warrior Athene was that of the Parthenon, the work of Phidias. The goddess, standing, wore a long chiton; her head was helmeted, her breast covered with the aegis**, her right hand rested against a spear and in her left hand she held a winged victory. (Hamlyn, P. (1963). Greek Mythology. 1st ed. London: Westbook House)

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* Palladia is the plural of Palladium, which as stated in the description above, is a statue of Athena but also anything believed to protect, which I believed was the main reasoning behind why Athena was often referred to as Pallas, however according the quote below, this is not quite the case….

‘But the ancient Greek myths are messy, so there’s more to Pallas than meets the eye. According to Pseudo-Apollodorus’ Bibliotheca (3.12.3), Athena had a childhood friend, a girl called Pallas. They were both raised in the arts of war. At some point, they had a falling out and came to blows. Fearful for the fate of his favourite child, Zeus interfered and distracted Pallas, who was struck down by Athena. Immediately, Athena was overcome by grief and made a wooden statue in Pallas’ likeness, the Palladium, which was later kept at Troy.’

There are so many different versions of the myths which all tells different stories of how Athena was given this name, Pallas also means a large asteroid which is similar to the meaning of palladia. I find it so interesting how there is so much lexis which is constantly referred to and is able to almost lose it’s original meaning due to stories changing so much.

I found it to be very interesting how even today, these beliefs that the Palladia stones had fallen from the sky, are still relevant in studies even today, this helps me realize more just how much of an impact Greek mythology has had on on a number of different subjects and how it is still all around even in this day and age.

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The bronze Athena Promachos was the first of Phidias’ monuments dedicated to Athena and one of his earliest works. It was completed in 456 BCE and stood on the Athenian Acropolis for all to see as the largest statue yet erected. Phidias completed the Lemnian Athena between 451-448 BCE. The massive chryselephantine cult statue, Athena Parthenos, was made out of gold and ivory and measured 12 meters in height. The goddess was depicted as standing, wearing a tunic, aegis, and a helmet and holding a Nike in her right hand and a spear in her left. By her side was a ornamented spear and serpent. She was completed in 438 BCE. Phidias’ other colossal chryselephantine statue of Zeus was completed in 430 BCE. It was considered by ancient scholars to have been Phidias’ masterpiece and fittingly so, as it was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Unlike Phidias’ Athena, Zeus was sculpted seated on a throne. He held a Nike in his right hand and a scepter in his left hand. The statue was 13 meters tall and filled the height of the temple.

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To the left is, as described above, Phidias’ representation of Athena, which has the ‘tight draperies, and in her hands she held a shield and spear.’ and the ‘aegis’ as stated in the extract from Paul Hamlyn’s Greek Mythology book.

The Aegis - ‘Besides her armour, Athena was always depicted with an AEGIS . No one is quite agreed as to precisely what an aegis looked like. It is sometimes described as an animal skin (originally goat: aiga is a word for ‘goat’ in Greek), though pelts of lion or leopard can later be seen in sculpture and ceramic representations. Zeus’s aegis is generally held to have been a shield, perhaps covered with goatskin and often showing the face of a Gorgon.’ (Fry, S. Mythos,)

I have really struggled to figure out what an Aegis is, however, from my research, it is often represented as a shield with a gorgon’s head on it, and usually with Medusa’s head for Athena. I found it really interesting that both Athena and Zeus were described to have an aegis.

Roman architecture

I went around Bath to find some architecture which seemed quite Greek to me and I tried to do it during golden hour, but before I managed to get many, I saw this writing which I immediately recognized was Greek, but it really interested me how I had never seen it before! Yet it was right above my head. This project has really opened up my eyes to different things which I would have never noticed before.

The writing says - ΑΡΙΣΤΟΝ ΜΕΝ ΥΔΩΡ which translates to ‘Excellent Water’, which makes sense as it is above the Roman Baths. I find the writing the be so beautiful so if I need to use text in my project, I may write it in Greek lettering, I’m really glad I went on this little gander around Bath to see this, even though I did not photograph much else as I got distracted from this.

Mind Map

Short mind map to help myself keep track of my initial ideas and if they form and evolve, I will be able to keep track a bit easier of those as well.

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Shoot 4 - Athena

Athena is the Goddess of War and Wisdom. She has a number of different qualities and symbols from which she can be represented with. Athena is Zeus’ favorite daughter as a Mother did not give birth to her, instead she fought her way out of Zeus’, skull in which she made herself a full body of armor from the inside of his head, hence she was given the title Goddess of War.

For this photo shoot, I wanted to show symbolism by researching into different aspects of her representations.

Wisdom - Owl
Bravery and Courage - Thyme
Chess - Strategic Battle
Olive oil - Athena was the bearer of the olive tree to the Greeks.
Gold leaf - the gods have a golden honey like substances instead of blood.

I was playing around with lighting and just trying to get used to being in the studio again, hence why the lighting is not brilliant and the background can be seen quite a lot in some of the images, but that’s OK as I have learnt that now and know what to do to prevent this next time.

Making a zoetrope

Materials needed -

  1. Round lid or tin

  2. Black paper

  3. White paper

  4. Printer

  5. Scalpel

  6. Marble

  7. Masking Tape

  8. Scissors

Zoetrope prototype

I tried to make a prototype Zoetrope to see what would need to be done when I make the real thing. In this case, i am really glad that I made this as I was able to see the mistakes I made so that I could avoid these when making the real thing.

Some of the mistakes I made where -

  • Cutting the slots too wide, this made the animation come out really blurry and unclear.

  • The size of the image strip was too big even though I did measure it correctly, so I found out that it was a technical error and I had not printed it to it’s actual size.

  • I realized it would need a motor of some sort, as spinning it was not fast enough to see the image.

These are all things I will be a lot more weary of when making the real and bigger version of this.

Zeus - Plasma Ball

For Zeus’ representation I decided that a Plasma ball could be quite interesting as it hold electricity and creates a sort of lightning bolt effect. I also love how it is in a sphere as Zeus’ is the God of the skies. I asked my boyfriend to Vape around the setup to create a cloudy effect, which I loved! I believe that it is a very interesting atmosphere.

I noticed that the aesthetic is very commercial like which, after talking to my tutor, made me realise that this is possibly something I would like to go into after University. I like to play with styling and colours, I feel it is the best way to be imaginative and creative within my photographic practice, and I can make it whatever I need it to be, I have full control over the set which makes me feel more in charge of my practice.

To get the lighting correct for this photoshoot, I had to find a large cardboard box and places black curtains inside and on the outside to stop any reflections going into the ball, although sometimes they look quite cool. I found it quite difficult to get the lighting on the ball and on the vapour to be matching, as the ball cannot have any reflections, it was very difficult to use flash however the ball already has lights within it, but the vapour did not, so I had to play around with where to place my flash so that it projected light onto the vapour but not onto the Plasma ball.

It was fun to play around, but I feel this does not necessarily prove my capability when it comes to stylizing, so after speaking with Kellie (one of my tutors), I think I would like to create more Tableaux based images, similar to Dominic Davies. As this way I can play around with symbolism and my imagination. I can also show off more commercial style photography and still have that fiction/ fantasy element to the images. I would also like to print the very big, as the Gods are very large in character and appearance.

We also discussed maybe focusing on 3 or 4 Gods rather than the full 12, which I believe would be a lot more practical as this way I can put more full attention into making 3 incredible photographs rather than attempting to make 12 passable images. I will go for either 3 or 4 as these are factors of 12 and this way i will still bring in the mathematical aspect of things.

Joel-Peter Witkin

Witkin is a sculptor, painter, draftsman, and photographer. He turned to photography as a means of recording his work. His images are very interesting and he seems to be highly intrigued by the human body .

‘At age six, holding his mothers hand, he claimed to have witnessed an automobile accident where the head of a little girl rolled from one of the overturned cars and stopped at his feet. “I reached down to touch the face, to ask it - but before I did - someone carried me away” Ten years later when he took up the camera, “I wasn’t holding a machine… I was holding HER FACE”

The above statement was extracted from the Joel Peter Witkin (1985) book which has a short statement at the beginning followed by a series of photographs. I found this statement to be very bizarre and rather horrific, however I do feel it matches well with the type of imagery the artist puts out.

I am mostly interested in his work titled ‘Icarus’

It is interesting to see how different people will interpret the same theme or the same character, this is likely to be the most interesting way of portraying Icarus as, in my opinion, without the title, I do not believe I would have been able to decipher what this image was about. Although I feel that way about a lot of Witkin’s work, although it is very interesting and very different.

Below is another image I found on the same website which shows another way of illustrating Icarus as well as another medium as this is an engraved etching rather than a photograph.

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This to me is a lot more straight forward and tells the story in a lot more depth without needing a title. However, I really like this way of working without it being extremely direct, it allows the viewers imagination to run a bit more free which I have a theme of doing within my work. I definitely feel that I will use this idea within my work, where I make things a little less straightforward and allow the audience’s minds to wonder.

Shoot 3 - Greek Goddess

I have no idea where I want this project to go, so I am slowly trying to play around with different ideas and different types of photos. I really do like these photos, but definitely not the sort of theme I am looking for, for this project. I am thinking I would like to experiment a bit more and try some different mediums. So I am glad that I took these photos so that I could realize that these are not the type of imagery I want to create for this project.

Shoot 1 - Poseidon, Water rage

After talking to a few different people, I realised that Greek Mythology is in fact, a HUGE subject, and it would be quite difficult for me to decide on what to do, so I decided to just go on a few walks to get some ideas and to open up my mind a bit. My boyfriend took me to Warleigh Weir where I could photograph water as I have always been very interested in Poseidon, so I was automatically drawn to this idea of photographing water.

This place was perfect as there was calm water, raging water when the water would fall and also strong currents. I feel that just walking around and surrounding myself with things that the Gods/Goddess’ represent, helps me to feel inspired and to think up more ideas, I may not necessarily use these images in my final layout, but they are just to remind myself of what I was thinking and feeling during my visit to these places.

Ideas for this project

For each God and Goddess I have created a small illustration to help get ideas of what I would like to photograph and how I would like to interpret them. Each God has so many different symbols and general things that could be photographed which gives me a lot of freedom, however this is causing me to become confused as to what I should be showing.

I have one idea which is to create a sort of Tableau for each God and goddess, similar to Dominic Davies’ work on his Synaesthesiac project, which I will be researching into soon. However, I am also thinking about using maybe 1 or 2 symbols for each god, below are some drawings I made to help myself.

Mythos - Stephen Fry

‘Mythos by Stephen Fry is a humorous retelling of the Greek myths—if that seems possible given all the atrocities constantly being committed by the gods, goddesses, and titans. It’s a really great book for getting on top of not only the Greek myths but also the way the names of the gods/goddesses etc. and Ancient Greek words are intertwined into the modern English language. We highly recommend the audiobook, in particular, narrated by Stephen Fry himself, who is a talented and funny actor.’ (Five books, 2021)

I started listening to Mythos by Stephen Fry as an audiobook. I had just downloaded audible as I never really managed to get into reading, but must say I am loving being able to listen to books! My boyfriend suggested I listen to this books called Mythos, as he knows I have always had a very strong interest in Greek Mythology, so I started to listen to it and I cannot even begin to explain how much I have learnt, just from going on walks and having my earphones in, I am able to learn about a whole other culture and religion, one I am very intrigued in.

Stephen Fry is also the voice of the audiobook, which, in my opinion, makes it all that much better. He explains so well and in a very detailed manner how the earth began and the stories of the Titans and the Olympians. He also explains very clearly, that the Greeks had different views and opinions on certain aspects, for example, they believe that 12 is a far more superior number to 10 as 12 is divisible by 2,3,4 and 6 whereas 10 is only divisible by 2 and 5 (boring), they had a strong attraction to Mathematics, some of the greatest mathematicians were Greek, for example, Pythagoras and Aristotle. I do believe that I would like to include this interest in my project, by showing the 12 Olympian Gods and Goddesses.

It is also very well explained how Greek Mythology comes into our everyday lives, for example, the Goddess 'GAIA’ who is a personification of the earth and grandmother to Zeus. The word Gaia is another way of saying γῆ (ge) which mean Earth in Greek, this ‘ge’ transformed into geo for geology or geography, always meaning earth. The Romans named Gaia - Terra, which means ‘Earth’ in Latin.

I seem to make connections with my everyday life and Greek Mythology, living in a Roman city makes these connections even stronger as the Romans were so heavily influenced by the Greeks, in many ways including architecture and the Gods, they named the gods and goddess after planets eg,

Ares - Mars.
Hades - Pluto
Neptune - Poseidon

and so on.

Anyway, realising just how much of an impact these connections has had on me, especially now that I am listening to the book about them, has made me even more intrigued and interested by these stories. So, even though I could go on and explain everything I have learnt through what I have already listened to, I will do this in chunks throughout my research. I am starting to edge towards using everyday objects to interpret the 12 Olympian gods. Using a few different photographers and artists as inspiration to hopefully create 12 Tableaux for each God and Goddess.

Alexandra Lethbridge

Alexandra Lethbridge is a British Photographer who works with imagery, sculpture and moving image, most of her work consists of conceptual meanings behind them, for example, in her first book Meteorite Hunter (2014) she combined images of rocks from gift shops with images from NASA of actual meteorites to try and confuse the audience as to which images were of what. I find this to be very interesting but also quite exciting as it allows the brain to use imagination and also realise how easy it is to be deceived in such a simplistic yet complicated manner.

For her project The Archive of Gesture she used Greek statues who would, quite commonly, have limbs missing, ‘The famous statue Venus de Milo has been long debated as to what she was doing with her arms. Speculation includes the possibility she was grazing the shoulder of a warrior, holding an apple, or gazing into a mirror.’ (Yoghurt Magazine, 2020) , the very focus of this body of work is the absence of certain pieces of information and so Alexandra Lethbridge creates pieces to almost filling these voided gaps as to what she and what others have conspired the ‘missing limbs’ would have been like, how they would have been portrayed. To do this, she uses collage and manipulations within her images to create a sense of ‘absence and presence, transparency and obstruction, truth and lies.’ (Yoghurt Magazine, 2020)

I am researching into a few different photographers who have used Greek Mythology within their artwork as I am very confused as to where I should start with this project, but by looking at other people’s work, it is helping me to gain more inspiration and to hopefully move on more with my own work.

I really enjoy this body of work, both visually and conceptually, I love the playfulness it entails, which is definitely something I want to be present in my work, however I would prefer for my project to hold more meaning in the sense of Greek Mythology, whereas this is a bit more broad. Even so, I think the use of mixed media and all else is beautiful and I am really glad that I researched into Lethbridge’s work as it is very visually and mentally pleasing.

Recorded notes 29/03

6.21 pm

Okay so, Artemis, daughter of lyder, I believe, is the older twin Apollo is her brother. She Zeus his child as well. Leida was basically forced to go. Gaia was not allowed to give her any space because here a caster asked Gaia to not allow her any place on Earth. So Poseidon helped created a tidal wave to push her to this island. She asks her father Zeus for several wishes. Very cunningly Silver Bow some Silver Arrows. Some but unique down to her knee length because further down is impractical and stupid. Some nymphs to look after the dogs I plead that was what she said. And a choir of girls. I will come back. A choir, not a choir.

6.23 pm

She also asks for childbirth to be made easier, see potentially a pregnant woman could be quite interesting. And then Seuss goes on to say, quite fondly. You don't ask for the moon Do you. And of course she goes oh yes I'd like them.

6.24 pm

The Romans named her Diana. A special tree was the sugar. Yes, especially tree was the Cypress she was often called Cynthia, which is the name of the mountainside that she was born on. And she was also granted the wish of celibacy. She wanted no man to ever touch her in any way. She was adored across all the ancient land. And so it was her kindness, a woman. She was the goddess of the orchard archers and hunting and celibacy, are not necessarily celibacy ignore that the untamed, and the untreated. Yeah, very interesting. Possibly pregnant lady. Silver Bow, if possible, to unique, first of all, cypress tree. Not entirely sure where I can find that but I show that off, find something. Yeah.

6.30 pm

Okay so polling. Similar to Jacob in the Bible, she's interesting. There's a very smooth man who was Lord of mathematics. Some of the things this he was will say, couldn't lie, so he was sort of given the title or not the title of the oracle.

6.33 pm

Okay, so very interested. I said in my last conversation at the arts sort of follows like, Jacob from the Bible, and he's a very smoothly because unlike any gods, he never had any facial hair, or chest hair, or anything like that. So she's actually really interesting. So Jacob doesn't have any facial hair either for very, very little. So, yeah, kind of art makes a bit more sense a lot of mathematics of reason and logic. So, mathematics, I suppose we could bring in algebra in some way shape or form. I'm not entirely sure how that could be crossbar logic we could bring in Who said you could have a similar reason. So, I think that works to do with show reason, maths and logic, poetry and medicine, knowledge. And yeah, these were his, his game basically, this is how he worked. He was the God of harmony or his base, so qualities a harmony. He also would signify objects and learning to be expressed in squares or spheres, or lots of different properties of different shapes. Maybe come back to that one and have another look at it. So that is

one hour, 31 minutes and 11 seconds. Around that time, listen back to that peptides of shapes thing. So yeah, he was given the inability to lie, which made him as soon prices and natural choice for the given the oracles or prophecies. So for this, maybe bring in a crystal ball, something modern, but like a scroll or something sort of reminds me back to Doctor Who and Pfizer Pompei, which could be quite interesting. The Python and the novel were both secret to him. His particular animals were the dolphin and the white Raven, ocean were kind of weights Raven. However, the dolphin

showed me that maybe a teddy, or? Yeah, I'm not sure. Maybe I could modernize it in some form.

Interesting. So he wasn't given a Roman name. He was just kept the Greek name. We do hear Polo quite often. Like for example, Apollo 11, the NASA and so on, maybe look into that could be quite interesting. I wonder why they decided to name that. Also, apparently he didn't refrain from having nasty streaks like the rest of his family. He was very fierce. He was a very, very talented Archer and his golden color as he and his sister were very, very different, very much opposites. This golden color, and he made him stronger.

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So here it was not too happy at the fact that she failed to destroy the birth of Apollo and Artemis. So she attempted to try and destroy them again by the Python will explain more in a bit but also something to do with the the rock that Cronos regurgitated which was which landed on my pipe is known as the belly button. Okay, so there was a snake who was given who is the guardian of the stone, the rock who was given the name Python was sort of like a dragon like snake. Yeah, basically he pythons named after him. So Apollo was golden. Artemis was so so here are sent Python so Python to light off lighter. A humble the name need to remember to destroy Artemis and Apollo and Zeus sent a message in the wind to poverty or tell him basically what was happening. And yeah, he also got her foster su mega set of goals both corporate and our current hours for us you defend yourself so Apollo basically destroyed the Python within seconds. Hopefully feeling this much having to deal with the dragon that if you cut its head off, it goes through but it has to do with the snake who grows it has back basically because the Python was from the earth from Gaia, he was under divine protection. Because of this Zeus would have to punish Apollo for killing it. And because this he sent us Apollo to x is the person's birth place where he would start making games that's the Olympics.