Apolo

Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and brother of the goddess Artemis. Jealous
Hera of Leto, had pursued the young throughout the land. Tired of escape the
wrath of the wife of Zeus, Leto was looking for a site where giving birth to the child
she was carrying in her womb.
At the foot of a Palm tree, the only tree on the island "Delos", Leto waited delivery
for nine days and nine nights, because Hera kept beside her to Ilitia, the divinity
that presides over the happy births. All them goddesses, notably Athena, is were
next to Leto, but nothing could make in its favor.
After the birth, Zeus sent his son gifts: a golden miter, a lyre and a carriage pulled
by swans. Then you ordered that was to Delphi, but them swans it led first to his
country, in the land of them Hiperbreos, which live under a sky always pure and
that have devoted to Apollo a cult that celebrate without cesar. As was there where
the God remained for a year, being awarded, and returned later to Greece.
Apollo killed at Delphi to Python (or Delfine), a dragon responsible for protecting an
ancient Oracle of Themis.
In memory of his feat, or perhaps to assuage the anger of the monster after his
death, Apollo was founded in his honor funeral games, the Pythian games held in
Delphi. It seized after the Oracle of Themis
Beautiful appearance, Apollo had numerous love affairs with nymphs and mortals.
Thus, loved to the nymph Daphne, daughter of the God Peneus, in Thessaly. The
nymph not corresponded to their gods and fled to the mountains. Apollo chased
her, and when he was about to reach it, Dafne addressed a prayer to his father,
pleading that it metamorfosease it to allow you to escape from the embraces of
God. His father agreed to this and transformed her into a laurel tree sacred to
Apollo.

As God of music and poetry, it was represented in the mount Parnassus where
presided over the contests of the muses. But apart from being God of music,
poetry, prophecy, pastoral and intimately United with the vegetation and the nature