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The Greek God Apollo
The Greek god Apollo was the god of light, order, reason, prophecy, arts and muses. He brings life-giving heat and light to Earth. He was the son of Zeus and Leto and the twin brother of Artemis. He is represented as a young and handsome man, sometimes in a chariot, given to him by his father, Zeus. In that chariot, he brings the sun back and fourth across the sky once a day.

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APOLLO____ The Greek god Apollo was a precocious baby, like his sister. He was only four days old when he followed and killed the Python as a revenge for having given a hard time to his mother. The Python was the son of the goddess Gaia, so Apollo had to pay for his crime. He had to become king Admetus' servant for one year. King Admetus treated him well, so Apollo told him that, when time came for him to die, he could continue to live if he could find someone else to die in his place.
He was also the god of plague and was worshiped as Smintheus and as Parnopius. He was known as the destroyer of rats and locust. Apollo shot arrows of plague into the Greek camp. Apollo, being the god of religious healing, would give those guilty of murder and other immoral deeds a ritual purification. Sacred to Apollo are the swan, the wolf and the dolphin. His attributes are the bow and arrows, on his head a laurel crown, and the cithara (or lyre) and plectrum. But his most famous attribute is the tripod, the symbol of his prophetic powers.

One day, Niobe, the queen of Thebes, started to laugh at Leto, who only had two children, while the queen had seven girls and seven boys. Leto was offended by all this, so she told her children about it. The revenge was scary: the Greek god Apollo killed with his arrows Niobe's seven sons, while the goddess Artemis killed the daughters.
When the goddess Hera, the wife of Zeus found out about Leto's pregnancy, she was outraged with jealousy. Seeking revenge Hera forced Leto to roam the earth in search of a place to give birth. Since Hera had

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