Apollo and Daphne Greek Mythology Unrequited Love Statue Pagan Icon #1210

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Apollo and Daphne Greek Mythology Unrequited Love Statue Pagan Icon #1210:
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Apollo and Daphne Greek Mythology Figurine
Creamy White or Off White Resin Statue
14 inches high / 35.56 cm
Large Cold Cast Marble Finished Resin StatueApollo, the god of the sun and music, was cursed when he insulted young Cupid/Eros for playing with bow and arrows, accusing him of playing with Apollo\'s weapons.The petulant Cupid/Eros took two arrows, one of gold and one of lead. To incite hatred, he aimed the leaden shaft at the nymph Daphne, and with the golden one he shot Apollo through the heart to incite love. Seized with love for the maiden, who abhorred him, Apollo continually followed her.A self-sufficient maiden, Daphne spurned her many would-be lovers preferring instead woodland sports and exploring the forests and fields. Her father demanded that she get married to give him and she begged him to let her remain single.Apollo continually followed her, begging her to stay, but the nymph continued her flight. They were evenly matched in a race until Eros intervened and helped him gain upon Daphne.Seeing that Apollo was bound to catch her, she called upon her father, \"Help me, Peneus! Open the earth to enclose me, or change my form, which has brought me into this danger!\"Suddenly her skin turned into bark, her hair became leaves, and her arms were transformed into branches. She stopped running as her feet became rooted to the ground.
Apollo embraced the branches, but even the branches shrank away from him. Since Apollo could no longer take her as his wife, he vowed to tend her as his tree, and used his powers of eternal youth to render her ever green. Since then the leaves of the Bay laurel tree have never known decay.**Some information in this story comes from Wikipedia

Apollo is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in ancient Greek and Roman religion, Greek and Roman mythology, and Greco–Roman Neopaganism. The ideal of the kouros (a beardless, athletic youth), Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun, truth and prophecy, healing, plague, music, poetry, and more. Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis. As the patron of Delphi (Pythian Apollo), Apollo was an oracular god—the prophetic deity of the Delphic Oracle. Medicine and healing are associated with Apollo, whether through the god himself or mediated through his son Asclepius, yet Apollo was also seen as a god who could bring ill-health and deadly plague. In Hellenistic times, especially during the 3rd century BCE, as Apollo Helios he became identified among Greeks with Helios, Titan god of the sun, and his sister Artemis similarly equated with Selene, Titan goddess of the moon.

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