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Apollo
also known as Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Apollon
Radiant god of light, sun, healing, and prophecy. At Delphi he slew the dragon Python and took the oracle, streaming forth as the healing Logos from the mouth of the Pythia. Twin of Artemis, son of Zeus and Leto, father of Asclepius — the cosmic archetype of harmonized opposites.
Greek Apollon — contested origin, perhaps from apollymi, 'to destroy,' or a pre-Greek solar root.