#admetos

Chapters: 7/? Fandom: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Apollo/Hymenaios, Apollo/Magnes, Apollo/Kalliope, Apollo/Admetus, Gyges/Magnes, Apollo/Hymen (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Apollo/Magnes son of Argos (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Apollo/Calliope (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Admetus of Pherae/Apollo (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore) Characters: Apollo, Hymenaios, Magnes, Kalliope, Admetus of Pherae (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore) Additional Tags: period typical adult-child relationships 

“Why?” Apollo whispered. The gold in his eyes was fractured, shot through with bitter black, staring into Admetos’ face from six inches away, his breath hot with the wild, bitter tang of laurel. “Why do you stay by the well when you know it is poisoned?”

@ulises-aithon I didn’t bother you with this one because it’s just more of the same

Now, I don’t read latin, but is this not saying that Zeus stripped Apollo’s divinity when he worked for Admetos? If so, I wonder if this is the source that popularized this version of the story

Servius again. It's always Servius. I kept wondering from what source the Vatican mythographers took this idea and now it makes perfect sense.

I don't read Latin either but as far as I can discern the text is saying something like „For this reason, an angered Apollo transfixed the Cyclopes, who forged the thunderbolts, with his arrows. On account of which he was ordered by Jupiter to pasture the herds of King Admetus for nine years near the Amphrysus, with his divinity having been set aside.”

The Second Vatican Mythographer (151) recounts it similarly: „Later, Jupiter killed Aesculapius because he had recalled Hippolytus to life. Thus an angry Apollo shot the Cyclopes, the fashioners of Jupiter's thunderbolts, with arrows. On account of this deed, Apollo set aside his divinity and took on the shape of a mortal man. He was sent by Jove to pasture the herds of King Admetus for a period of nine years near the River Amphrysus in Thessaly.”

But the First and Third Vatican Mythographers tell it a bit differently:

„Moved by anger, Apollo killed the Sicilian smiths who made Jove's thunderbolts. For this Jupiter stripped him of his divinity and cast him from the sky. Banished, Apollo pastured the cattle of King Admetus for four years above the river Euphrates, where he had very many sons.” (First Vatican Mythographer 116); „Apollo was robbed of his divinity and pastured the herds of Admetus because he killed the Cyclopes.” (Third Vatican Mythographer 8.17).

Cupido: is related to socialisation, the arts, and marital life. On the downside, it indicates vanity, addiction to pleasures, and being strongly influenced by groups of people.

Hades: corresponds to intellectual rigour, service rendered to people, the purpose of being useful. On the downside; it leads to carelessness, indifference, apathy, and mess.

Zeus: is related to creativity, as well as to organisational and leadership capacities. On the downside, it may lead to aggressiveness and to excessive militancy.

Kronos: is related to authority and cleverness. In tough aspect, it may make the person conceited, presumptuous, or elitist.

Apollon: is related to the ability to synthesise, as well as to broad-mindedness, and fame. In difficult aspect, it may bring about superficiality or extravagance.

Admetos: is related to the deepness of the mind, asceticism, simplicity, and analytical mind. In tough aspect, it may make the person nit-picking, inflexible, and narrow-minded.

Vulcanus:, sometimes said to be the higher octave of Saturn, provides strength to improve collective relations, to structure things, to be efficient, and to get straight to the point. On the downside, he may bring about arrogance and scattered efforts.

Poseidon: brings about wisdom, a clear mind, and sometimes spirituality. On the downside, it may make the person dogmatic, manipulative, or out of touch with reality.

Proserpina: sometimes referred to as Persephone, is a trans-Plutonian hypothetical planet. Proserpina is related to mysteries, revival and reconstruction, as well as cycles. She enriches the unconscious, and gives the possibility to combine modern life with spirituality, the East with the West, and mysticism with concrete life. Its symbolism has its source in the myth of Persephone, daughter of Zeus (Jupiter) and Demeter (Ceres). After Persephone was abducted by Hades (Pluto), she became his wife. Upon Demeter's request, Hades accepted to allow Persephone to leave the Underworld and stay with her mother during half of the year, which Persephone agreed on. Proserpina is simultaneously Venus' complement and her reverse, just like Pluto is Mars' complement and his reverse.

Some new points of the 20th century astrology stem from studies of different domification systems (the calculation of house cusps), or other elaborated fancy systems, always conducted for research purposes. The results yielded are not too convincing. The Vertex and the East Point correspond to the Ascendant and the Descendant, just to mention an additional example.

The Vertex: , sometimes called counter-Ascendant, is a fictitious point which is at the intersection of two great circles, the Ecliptic and the great vertical circle (Prime Vertical) in the West of the birthplace, linking the East, the Zenith, the West, and the Nadir. It is always located in the West of the chart around the Descendant. It is the chart's fifth angle, so to speak, less important than the other angles. Its interpretation is controversial, because certain astrologers pay no attention to it.