HERMES AND APOLLO

THE FIRST STORY :

APOLLO'S CATTLE:

Hermes is the most intelligent god.

Back in the days when Hermes was still an infant, he once slipped off his cradle and started an adventure to Pieria, in Northern Greece. His aim was to steal the cattle from his half-brother Apollo.

 Apollo's heifers were fending. 

Hermes discovered the herd very soon. One by one, he started pulling the hoofs out of the cows’ feet and re-attaching them in the reverse order. The same he did to his own sandals. Then he took the herd, which now seemed to be walking backward and hid the herd inside a cave. Finally, he returned to his cave in Mount Cyllene in Arcadia. Apollo soon found out that his herd was missing and started searching all around. The traces he saw on his way were nothing but confusing and led the god to despair. Informed everybody, they search with mobilization.

Silanus found the heifers and Hermes. Little Hermes was peacefully sleeping inside his cradle, but Apollo didn’t bother- he grabbed the infant and took him up to Mount Olympus to be judged by their master Zeus, the king of the gods. Before the eyes of Zeus, Hermes first denied everything, but in the end, he had to confess. Zeus found the story quite amusing so he didn't punish Hermes, he only asked from him to return the herd...

SECOND STORY:

HERMES AND THE LYR:

While Hermes played so well with an empty seashell, Apollo liked it and wanted to have the seashells. So they made a bargain> Shell for the animas> exchange

Apollo goes back to Mt. Olympus. Apollo noticed that Hermes was carrying a beautiful musical instrument, and when he heard Hermes play it, he was enchanted. He offered to trade him the lyre for his fifty cattle. Now Hermes was a herdsman and he invented a musical instrument, a shepherd's pipe, for herding his cattle. Once again, Apollo was fascinated with Hermes' new invention and decided to trade his golden stick, the Caduceus, for Hermes' shepherd's pipe. The Caduceus had power oversleep, dreams, wealth, and happiness. Apollo became known for the beautiful music he played with the lyre and became the god of music.

They told Zeus the whole story then Zeus warned Hermes> no more lies and respect for the Olympians.

And Zeus choose him for messanger god, the most running and the most intelligent. 

ASCLEPIUS (Aesculapius)

The Greek god of the healing Asclepius

was the son of the Olympian god Apollo and the beautiful mortal Coronis. Apollo used to love Coronis very much, but as soon as Coronis became pregnant, she decided to marry another young man with the name Ischis. Apollo got informed about Coronis' infidelity by his faithful servant Corax and, in his rage, he transformed Corax from white into black. Then Apollo sent his sister, Artemis burned Coronis on a funeral pyre. Meanwhile, Apollo, who was watching this scene and felt guilty of killing his unborn child, rescued the baby by cutting open the womb of the burning Coronis. Then caried the baby to the centaur Chiron who raised the baby about art of the medicine. Asclepius used snakes venom and brought people back from the death, but Hades got angry and told Zeus, Zeus struck him with a thunderbolt and Asclepius died.
Apollo got angry and killed Cyclops (thunderbolt makers) then Zeus got angry, too and condem Apollo to serve to a mortal king for a year.

In Greek mythology, Admetus was the king of Pherae in the region of Thessaly, son of Pheres. He participated in the Argonautic Expedition.

He was a fair and hospitable king; when Apollo was forced to serve under a mortal because of killing cyclops.

Apollo helped him to married Alcethis. When the Fates decided it was time for Admetus to die, Apollo intoxicated them and made them agree to keep him alive, as long as someone else would take his place. But nobody gives, only Alcethis.  Zeus pitied they and .

It's same with Deli Dumrul struggle with Azrael in Turkey.

APOLLO & MIDAS & MARSYAS

FIRST STORY:

Myth of King Midas and the Gold

King Midas is one of the most known and controversial personas in the Greek Mythology. King of Phrygia, Midas, was known for his wisdom but also his greed.

Silanus (chief of satyrs), one of Bacchus's attendants.

Silenus getsdrunkand loses his way, Mida finds and honor him a few days. Entertained Silenus..

When Silenus leaves, Dionysus gives a gift for Midas that everything he touches would turn to gold.

At firsr, Midas loves his new power, but the foot that he tries to eat turns to gold,  he panics, nightmares starts for him and then  begs Dionysus to take back the gift,  Dionysus tells him '' wass your hands in the  River Pactolus.  

midas..... silanus...........dionysus.......pactolus........ 

 SECOND STORY:

  one day, when the Marsyas wandering upon Mount Timolus, he finds a flüte, it is Athena's flüte, when Athena play this flüte Hera laught her so Athena throw it but then Marsyas finds it. Cause of Athen's flüte, it's magical flüte so in a short time Marsyas become a a famous but Apollo jealous this situation,  and Marsyas challenges Apollo so they contest, At the and of the contest, Muses decrees that Apollo is the winner but King Midas doesn't decree with Muses, Apollo gets angry and punishes both of them...
Marsyas  is flayed and hunged a pine tree..........
And turns Midas's ears into donkey-ears, he embarressed his donkey-ears, so he starts wearing a turban to cover them, his secret is safe until he has to get a haircut. :) At the begining barber doesn't tell anybody but then barber can not hold secret and he dug a hole in to the ground and whispered ''King Midas has donkey-ears'' barber think that nobody hear him but reeds whispered and told this sentences away so everybody learn Midas's ears

APOLLO & HYACINTHUS

Hyacinthus was a handsome Spartan Prince and the lover of the god Apollo. Apollo fell in love with Hyacinthus, Unfortunately, Apollo wasn't the only enamored deity. One of the winds, Zephyros or Boreas, was, as well. When Apollo and Hyacinthus were throwing the discus, the jealous wind made the discus Apollo had thrown bounce up and strike Hyacinthus.

Hyacinthus died, but from his blood sprang the flower that bears his name(hyacinthus).

Apollo asks Gods to make him immortal so blood sprang the flower...

enamered = aşık

deity = tanrı

APOLLO & DAPHNE

APOLLO, one of the most powerful gods and a great warrior, mocked the god of love Eros(cupid) for his use of bow and arrow, saying, "What have you to do with warlike weapons? Leave them for hands worthy of them. Apollo scourns(küçümseme) Eros, arrows should be used by a grown up.
 Eros gets angry and take an oath(yemin).  Cupid prepares two arrows one of them is golden arrow and other  arrow is silver.  Eros choses Daphne to make fall in love with her and uses golden arrow to Apollo and then uses silver arrow and strike Daphne so she abhorred(nefret etmek) him, 
Apollo meets daphne and confesses(itiraf etmek) his love, but she escapes and Apollo chases, when she tiried she prayed  her father (a minor god of a river, name is Peneus)  and Penaus transformed the nymph into a nice short plant with excellent smell. This plant was the laurel, which is called "daphne" is Greek, after the nymph's name. Apollo was heart-broken at the loss of Daphne and to remember her for ever, he made the laurel the symbol of tribute to poets. The laurel became therefore the symbol of the god. Note that Pythia, the priestess in the oracle of Delphi, was chewing leaves of laurel to communicate with Apollo and give her prophesies to people. 
 musical instruments...
Evergreen ........................... :)

APOLLO & CLYTIE (CLYTEA)

        APOLLO & CLYTIE
Clytie was a water-nymph and in love with Apollo, who made her no
return. So she pined away, sitting all day long upon the cold
ground, with her unbound tresses streaming over her shoulders.
Nine days she sat and tasted neither food nor drink, her own
tears and the chilly dew her only food. She gazed on the sun
when he rose, and as he passed through his daily course to his
setting; she saw no other object, her face turned constantly on
him. At last, they say, her limbs rooted in the ground, her face
became a sunflower, which turns on its stem so as always to face
the sun throughout its daily course; for it retains to that
extent the feeling of the nymph from whom it sprang.

APOLLO= SUN
 CLYTIE= SUNFLOWER