I just wanted to share with youse guys one of my favorite Apollonian myths. I've transcribed the text ages ago, this morning I popped it into AI and made it a song ... kinda Whichever you like my dude all I am saying is check out this ancient myth: This content is protected Heads of OakPhorbas separates himself from the rest of the Phlegyans when he makes his raids. For this oak-tree, my boy, he has taken as his home and the Phlegyans visit him in these royal quarters in order, forsooth, to obtain justice. Catching those who journey toward the shrine, he sends the old men and children to the central camp of the Phlegyans for them to despoil and hold for ransom, but as for the stronger, he strips for a contest with them and overcomes some in wrestling, outruns others, and defeats others in the pancratium and in throwing the discus. Then he cuts off their heads and suspends these on the oak, and beneath this defilement he spends his life. The heads hang dank from the branches, and some you see are withered and others fresh, while others have shrunken to bare skulls. They grin and seem to lament as the wind blows on them. To Phorbas, as he exults over these ‘Olympian’ victories, has come Apollo in the likeness of a youthful boxer. As for the aspect of the god, he is represented as unshorn, my boy, and with his hair fastened up so that he may box with girt-up head. Rays of light rise from about his brow and his cheek emits a smile mingled with wrath. Keen is the glance of his eyes as it follows his uplifted hands, and the leather thongs are wrapped about his hands, which are more beautiful than if garlands adorned them. Already the god has overcome him in boxing, for the thrust of the right hand shows the hand still in action and not yet discontinuing the posture wherewith he has laid him low, the Phlegyan is already stretched on the ground, and a poet will tell how much ground he covers. The wound has been inflicted on his temple and the blood gushes forth from it as from a fountain. He is depicted as savage, and of swinelike features the kind that will feed upon strangers rather than simply kill them. Fire from heaven rushes down to smite the oak and set it afire, not, however, to obliterate all record of it. For the place where these events occurred, my boy, is still called Heads of Oak. If you did not know this, Apollo is the god of boxing and that's why Theodosius made boxing illegal, when Rome Christianized. Apollo became an aspect of Satan and since boxing is a pagan ritual in honor of Apollo it became Satanic. Man was made in the image of God and Satan, through the aspect Apollo, tricks man into disfiguring this image as if it is a noble endeavor. ... Just to be clear, their mindset, not mine. Anyway, before all that happen boxing was very much a ritual in honor of Apollo, it took place at all four major Panhellenistic games; Olympic, Pythian, Namean, and Isthmian and because it was so common we've quite a few myths to go with. The one where he fights and beats Ares is more popular, people really like the god of war, so I like to show people a less popular one. It's still pretty good, dark AF. I like the imagery of the evil christmas tree.
