ApolloApollo is one of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology. The national divinity of the Greeks, Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and light, poetry, and more.https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Apollo
His attributes include the laurel wreath and lyre. He often appears in the company of the Muses. Animals sacred to Apollo include roe deer, swans, cicadas, hawks, ravens, crows, foxes, mice, and snakes.
Heracles can often be identified in ancient Greek sculptures or paintings simply because of the lion skin he is depicted as wearing. While ancient writers agree Heracles wore a lion skin, they disagreed on where it came from.
The national divinity of the Greeks, Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and light, poetry, and more.
Dionysus Sacred Animal
Goats, donkeys, lions, serpents, and wild bulls were also considered sacred to the god.
APOLLO (Apollon) - Greek God of Music, Prophecy & Healing.
Like the tigers and elephants, lions represent royalty, ferocity, majesty, strength, courage and commanding power. Lions form an important part of Hindu religious art. The face of the lion (simha-mukha) is used in images and sculpture in many Hindu temples to decorate the doors, walls, arches, and windows.
He was also often depicted with one or both of his two main attributes: a bow and a lyre. The bow symbolized distance, death, terror, and awe, while the lyre more gently proclaimed the joy of communion with Olympus through music, poetry, and dance.
Strengths: Creative, handsome, supportive of all the arts of civilization. Weaknesses: Like his father Zeus, Apollo gets in trouble over love. Birthplace: On the sunny Greek island of Delos, where he was born along with his twin sister, Artemis.
Apollo's love for Daphne was so strong that the god of prophecy was unable to foretell his future but still, his emotions were uncontrollable. He approached the nymph whom he now saw more beautiful and virtuous than she actually was.
The head of the family is the pride male. He's the king of the pride and it's his job to protect the female lions, called lionesses and their young cubs.
Narasimha, (Sanskrit: “Man-Lion”) one of the 10 avatars (incarnations) of the Hindu god Vishnu.
Heracles. One account of the myth has it that king Thespius asked Heracles to kill the lion. Heracles hunted it for fifty days and finally killed it.
A hecatomb of bulls and goats is offered to Apollo in an enacted sacrifice in Iliad I, which is uneaten (Iliad I 315), and another hecatomb for Apollo is consumed at a feast (Iliad I 468).
Apollo. White: Apollo is strongly associated with the sun, with archery, with truth-telling, and with healing.
Apollo angered his father Zeus and ended up being sent to Earth and is in the body of a 16 year-old boy named Lester Papadopolous. Zeus punishes Apollo for the role that he played in the battle between the gods in Gaea. Apollo is of course upset about this and is wondering how soon he can get back to god status.
At just four days old, Apollo went on a hunt to avenge the Python who had tormented his pregnant mother. With his handy bow and arrow, he hit the Python and killed it instantly, while the nymphs of Delphi cheered him on. The Python's mother Gaea, meanwhile, was deeply angered.
According to Aeschylus, Cassandra promised Apollo favors, but, after receiving the gift, went back on her word and refused Apollo. Since the enraged Apollo could not revoke a divine power, he added a curse that nobody would believe Cassandra's prophecies.
Apollo is the Greek god of music, poetry, healing, and medicine. He is the son of Olympian god Zeus and Titan goddess Leto. He had a twin sister Artemis who he often accompanies in his myths.
Apollo emblem. "That's one small step for a man. One giant leap for mankind."
The lion of Mother Durga represents “Dharma”. It is mentioned in several texts that the Dharma is “Swayam-eva-mrigendrataa” (Dharma is like a lion by itself). The lion represents power, will and determination. Mother Durga riding the lion symbolises her mastery over all these qualities.
Durga is seen as a motherly figure and often depicted as a beautiful woman, riding a lion or tiger, with many arms each carrying a weapon and often defeating demons. She is widely worshipped by the followers of the goddess-centric sect, Shaktism, and has importance in other denominations like Shaivism and Vaishnavism.
To stop him, Shiva incarnated in the form of the Sharabha, an eight-legged man-lion-bird. Although said to be a lion, the Sharabha shown here more closely resembles a tiger, including body stripes formed by small snakes and sages.