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"PAIAWON" APOLLO THE SUN GOD: NEW EDITION

EXPLORE THE EASTERN ORIGINS OF THE SUN GOD PAIAWON APOLLO AND TRACE THE DEITIES JOURNEY TO THE WEST VIA SYRIA, ANATOLIA AND THE GREEK ISLANDS. KNOWN BY VARIED NAMES IN HURRIAN LANDS HE WAS APLU THE SUN GOD AND UNDERWORLD DEITY FROM URKESH. IN UGARIT AND SYRIA HE WAS RESHEP LORD OF THE ARROW AN ARCHER DEITY AND GOD OF THE PLAGUE. IN ANATOLIA HE WAS APALIUNAS WITH CULT CENTERS AT WILUSA [TROY] ON DELOS HE USURPED AND REPLACED THE ORIGINAL DEITY ON THE SACRED ISLAND. UPON CRETE HE WAS ASSOCIATED WITH THE MASTER OF ANIMALS A YOUTHFUL DEITY WHO WAS CONSORT OF THE MISTRESS OF ANIMALS DEITY AS SA SA RA WAS THE MOTHER GODDESS KNOWN AS THE LADY. PAIAWON'S SACRED ISLAND WAS NAMED PAXIMADIA OR LETOIA THE ISLAND ASSOCIATED WITH HIS ARRIVAL ON CRETE. HIS DEVELOPMENT LED TO THE DEITY FORMING WITH THE FEMALE DEITIES A POWERFUL POSITION IN THE MINOAN WORLD. FROM CRETE PAIAWON CROSSED OVER TO THE MAINLAND AND THE BELIEFS AND CULT OF PAIAWON APOLLO TOOK CONTROL OF THE SACRED SITE OF DELPHI.Read more

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