Apollo gay

Apollo, the god of sun and music, is considered the patron of same sex love, as he had many male lovers and was often invoked to bless homosexual unions. [3] He is also called "the champion of male love" by Andrew Callimach. [4]. Explore how the myth of Apollo & Hyacinthus affirms same-sex love in ancient Greece, challenging modern biases & celebrating queer history.

The love of Apollo and Hyacinth was celebrated in Sparta annually in a 3 day summer festival – the first day mourning the death, the next two celebrating the resurrection of the young man. Artemis The twin sister to Apollo, Artemis was the goddess of the hunt. By some accounts, she was an asexual virgin. However, others believed her to be a lesbian with several nymph and goddess lovers.

Ancient gay and lesbian Greeks worshipped her as Artemis Orthia, a symbol of the LGBTQ+ community. hermaphroditus. Apollo was the god of the sun and music who had shared deep love for the young prince, Hyacinthus. The gay prince dies, and Apollo is in deep sorrow. The story proves the tragic outcome of a. Last week we discussed the nine types of creation myth. This week, lets take a look at some stand out gay gods in history.

The result is sometimes we have to read between the lines. However, next time someone tries to tell you heterosexuality is the way its always been, you can tell them about these ancient deities. You may not have heard of Antinous. Antinous drowned while on a boat trip on the Nile, and Hadrian deified him post-humously.

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Hadrian had his lover set among the gods as a form of Osiris due to the manner of his death. The city of Antinopolis was founded in his honour at the sight of his death. It continued to be occupied until the 10th century. Sadly, many of his temples were destroyed when the Roman Empire Christianized. His worship declined from then on. Today it is kept alive by LGBT pagans and polytheists.

Apollo is the most famous of the gods on this list. Best known for his tragic romances, many of them with men. His lovers included Adonis and Hymenaois. However, the two most famous are the tragedies of Hyacinthus and Kyparissos. Hyacinthus was a beautiful Spartan prince whom Apollo was deeply in love with. However the wind gods Zephyrus and Boreas, and the mortal Thamyris also desired Hyacinthus. Hyacinthus chose Apollo over them all, and Apollo taught him all his crafts and showed him all his sacred temples.

The story of Kyparissos is a shorter, but no less tragic tale. Kyparissos was given a pet stag by Apollo, which while hunting he accidentally killed. He was so over taken by grief he begged to be transformed into a tree, the cypress. Chin was a deity of the Mayans, who today is very little known.

Most of our records of the god come from the Conquistadors. He was one of four minor deities who had some relation with the Becab, gods of death. The records from the Spanish of course portrayed this very negatively.

We have to take any of these claims by the Spanish conquistadors with a grain of salt. Chin was patron of this practice, and remaining depictions show him embracing a male creature as a lover. It tells the story of Hu Tianbao, who was enamored with a handsome imperial inspector. He spied on the man when he was bathing, and then admitted his love to him. The inspector had Hu beaten to death. The underworld, seeing his only crime being that of love, restored him as the Rabbit God.

He continues to be worshiped to this day.