Joao tries to list qualities of Apollo but lists way too many
qualities:
>1) God of healing and disease, avenger, archer, wolves and mice,[...] 2)
>shepherd god [...]
>3) young god of light, [...]
>4) God of Sun, sired by two goddesses, Night and Dawn [...]
>5) Couple of twins [...]
>6) God of music - IE? [...]
>7) Medicine gods [...]
>8) Anatolian plague-bringer [...]
>9) Dragon-slayer - almost universal
My, my, my. This is a long list but I think it needs to be
drastically organized into a smaller number of basic themes using
IE gods as focal points:
1) Sun (*Sxwe:l)
- shining, beautiful god/goddess
- has twins, with one of them being killed to form the
earth
- ORIGIN: Middle East, C.Asia, E.Mediterranean
2) Earth, Vegetation & Fertility (*Yemos):
- beautiful young god
- seasonally reincarnated
- associated with burial and death
- owns a scary wolf-dog to guard underworld
- a fine musician
- ORIGIN: Middle East, C.Asia, E.Mediterranean
3) Hunting & Herding (*Manus):
- valiant hero; archer/hunter/herder
- battles herd-stealing water serpent
- ORIGIN: E.Mediterranean
4) Health, Disease & Divine Medicine (*XegWnis):
- mouse/rat/squirrel
- conniving trickster
- fire god
- ORIGIN: Central Asia
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