Apollo Bright One – Apollo / Phoebus
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Apollo_Bright_One_(Mount_Olympus)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/index.html
This is the first Boss Wizards must defeat for the first Legion Token in the quest to reach Zeus for the first stage of the Immortal Games.
You stand before the radiant sun lord, Apollo Bright One! Let me show you the light!
Apollo Bright One
Please note that unlike Zeus Sky Father, Poseidon Earth Shaker, and Athena Battle Sight, Apollo Bright One is not depicted as a majestic bird. Look closely, he is in fact a chicken. I congratulate the wizard101 development team for giving us the Spanish pun in this depiction. “Pollo” is the Spanish word for “chicken”, hence Apollo is also ‘A Pollo’.
Apollo 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. One of the most important and complex of the Greek gods, he is the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt. Seen as the most beautiful god and the ideal of the kouros (ephebe, or a beardless, athletic youth), Apollo is considered to be the most Greek of all the gods. Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as Apulu.
Apollo is an important pastoral deity, and was the patron of herdsmen and shepherds. Protection of herds, flocks and crops from diseases, pests and predators were his primary duties. On the other hand, Apollo also encouraged founding new towns and establishment of civil constitution. He is associated with dominion over colonists. He was the giver of laws, and his oracles were consulted before setting laws in a city.
As the god of mousike, Apollo presides over all music, songs, dance and poetry. He is the inventor of string-music, and the frequent companion of the Muses, functioning as their chorus leader in celebrations. The lyre is a common attribute of Apollo. In Hellenistic times, especially during the 5th century BCE, as Apollo Helios he became identified among Greeks with Helios, the personification of the Sun. In Latin texts, however, there was no conflation of Apollo with Sol among the classical Latin poets until 1st century CE. Apollo and Helios/Sol remained separate beings in literary and mythological texts until the 5th century CE.
In July 1960 NASA was preparing to implement its long-range plan beyond Project Mercury and to introduce a manned circumlunar mission project-then unnamed-at the NASA/Industry Program Plans Conference in Washington. Abe Silverstein, Director of Space Flight Development, proposed the name “Apollo” because it was the name of a god in ancient Greek mythology with attractive connotations and the precedent for naming manned spaceflight projects for mythological gods and heroes had been set with Mercury. Apollo was god of archery, prophecy, poetry, and music, and most significantly he was god of the sun. In his horse-drawn golden chariot, Apollo pulled the sun in its course across the sky each day. NASA approved the name and publicly announced “Project Apollo” at the July 28-29 conference.
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