A fairy tale about the sun

First, the story of Apollo, the sun god.

Apollo, the sun god, was the son of Zeus and Leto. Hera, the queen of God, was jealous of the love between Zeus and Leto and brutally persecuted Leto, making her wander around. Finally, Leto was taken in by a floating island named Delos, where she gave birth to the sun god and the moon god with difficulty.

Hearing this, Hera sent Python Pito to kill Leto's mother and son, but it didn't work. Later, Leto's mother and son got lucky. Hera was no longer their enemy, and they returned to the ranks of God. In order to avenge their mother, Apollo shot Pito, a python that brought infinite disaster to mankind, with his arrow, and saved the people from harm.

Apollo was very proud after killing the python. When they met eros, the god of love, they laughed at his little arrow, so eros shot Apollo with an arrow burning with the flame of love, and shot Daphne, the fairy, with an arrow that could dispel the spark of love, making them miserable.

In order to get rid of the pursuit of Apollo, Daphne asked her father to turn herself into a laurel tree. I didn't expect Apollo to still have a crush on her, which moved Daphne very much. Since then, Apollo has used laurel as an ornament, and laurel has become a symbol of victory and honor. Every day at dawn, Apollo, the sun god, will board the golden carriage of the sun, pull the reins and hold high the whip to patrol the earth, bringing light and warmth to mankind. Therefore, people regard the sun as a symbol of light and life.

Second, the legend of Houyi shooting the sun

In ancient times, there was a serious drought on the earth. The heat scorched the forest, dried the land, dried the seedlings and plants. It turned out that Di Jun and he had 10 children, all of whom were grandchildren. They live in OOCL, and there is a big tree called Fusang in the sea. 10 The sun sleeps under the branches and runs out in turn to be on duty in the sky and shine on the earth.

But sometimes 10 suns come out together, burning vegetation and crops, which brings disaster to mankind. In order to save mankind, Hou Yi drew an arrow with a bow and shot it at nine suns. I saw a burst fireball in the sky, and a crow with three legs fell. Finally, there is only one sun left in the sky. From then on, the climate is suitable and everything can grow. Hou Yi shot and killed wild animals and poisonous snakes, and killed the people. Therefore, people regard him as "the God of Arrows".

The third is the legend of the goddess He in Shan Hai Jing.

Legend has it that in the distant southeast overseas, there is a country. There is an unusually beautiful woman in the country named He. She washes the sun in Gan Yuan every day. The sun will be polluted after dark. After he finished washing, the polluted sun will still be as bright as before when it rises the next day. This one is actually the wife of the legendary ancient emperor. She gave birth to ten suns and let them take turns to be on duty in the air, sending light and warmth to the world.

The starting point of these ten suns is desolate and remote. There is a mountain in that place. There is a hibiscus tree on the mountain, 300 miles high, but its leaves are as big as mustard seeds. Under the hibiscus tree, there is a deep valley called Tanggu, where the sun bathes. When they finished taking a bath, they hid in the branches and wiped themselves. Every day, the top one flies around in the sky on a bird, and others board the ship in turn, ready to set off.

Extended data:

The sun is the central celestial body of the solar system, accounting for 99.86% of the total mass of the solar system. The eight planets, asteroids, meteors, comets, exoneptune objects and interstellar dust in the solar system all revolve around the sun, and the sun revolves around the center of the Milky Way.

The sun is currently passing through the local bubble region of Orion's arm at the inner edge of the Milky Way. There are 50 nearest star systems within 0/7 light-years from Earth/Kloc-(the nearest star is a red dwarf named proxima centauri, about 4.2 light-years).

Apollo and the sun god:

Due to the long history of Greek mythology, modern people have great misunderstanding and cognition of the identity and status of many characters in the myth system, such as the understanding of "Apollo = Sun God".

It can be clearly said that Apollo also has the attributes of the sun god, but his position is the god of prophecy, god of light.

Apollo is the theory of the sun god, which is due to the origin of Apollo with the property of the sun, the evolution of the gods in the late ancient Greece and the participation of later poets and dramatists. ?

Since the 5th century BC, Helius, the sun god, and Apollo, the god of art, have been seriously confused. So Apollo was considered as the sun god Helius. However, Helius was not completely integrated with Apollo in the end.

Helius is the sun god from beginning to end in Greek mythology, and is the most orthodox sun god. Apollo was the sun god in late ancient Greece.

So later some non-Greek writers wrote, "After Zeus, the Titan Magi, resurrected the gods, god of light Apollo asked for the position of king of the sun. Zeus forgot Helius who was on duty and agreed to Apollo's request. There is also a saying that Zeus handed over the position of driving a solar chariot to Apollo because the son of Helius, the sun god, caused a disaster by driving a solar chariot. These "myths". Of course, this is what later writers call it, not to say that what the ancient Greeks wrote can't be regarded as Greek mythology.

Therefore, people often confuse Apollo with the sun god later, and think that Apollo is the sun god:-In addition, Apollo's nickname, Phobos (which means to shine), is also considered as an alias of Helius, but Phobos merged with Apollo a long time ago and became an alias of Apollo in the 8th century BC.

References:

Sun _ Baidu encyclopedia