knowing sects in the USA , i can picture the guys singing this as their sacred song
https://youtu.be/nFZvrDI2fh4
knowing sects in the USA , i can picture the guys singing this as their sacred song
https://youtu.be/nFZvrDI2fh4
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Apollo is found as Paen as in Io Paen in the Homeric Hymns to Apollo. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paean_(god)
The unified Apollo cult did not exisit in 1250 BC. The cults were all separate well into Archaic age.
The Homeric Hymns to Apollo are based on events which occurred in around about 1230 BC.
Paeon, Paian, Pean or PA-JA-WO means Healer. The name is found in religious texts dating to 1250 BC.
All the Gods were composites. They started off a ancestor cults which used rituals imported from the Greek Ionid Dynasty that ruled Egypt (ie. the Hyksos and the 18th dynasty up to the death of king Tut), with each local king claiming they were Zeus.
Most of the texts on Apollo were created out of the history of Boeotian Orchomonos. The original cult was completely different. What was done was like taking the Iliad and removing all the people except the God who are appearing in human form, and erasing the part about which human they took the form of. This is what was done with the Demeter cult as well and it proves that written historical and semi-poetic texts dated as far back as 1800 BC. There is no way the Greek religion could have evolved without them.
The Temple of Apollo at Delphi had already been built in 1380 BC. The account of Apollo's slaying of Python dates to 1360 BC and runs concurrent with the sacking of the temple of Apollo by the Phlegyans who Apollo later destroyed. In other words Delphos the king of Delphi defeated them and so became Apollo Delphos, who was then succeeded by his son Pythes ie. Pythian Apollo.
I pray to Jesus but I also honor the Greek Gods who were my ancestors. The ancient greek religion was based on ancestry worship. Btw thr God of the OT was always the Pharaoh of Egypt. Read Jeremiah who makes it abundantly clear.
Zeus for example, who was the Minoan king Saasitepi and ruled in 1675 BC so I have every right to believe in him since he was one of my ancestors. He was also the God of the bible since his name is recorded as that of Hyksos Pharaoh Sheshi. When Alexander became Pharaoh of Egypt he assumed that title which in Aramaic was YHWH LHM.