Since I was ten, I have been fascinated by mythology – in particular Greek mythology, with its array of gods, monsters and heroes. Though each god is remarkable in their own way, I found Apollo to be particularly interesting. Apollo appears to be, what we might call today, bisexual. Apollo is one of Greek mythology's most important gods, a beardless, youthful, and athletic figure. He is the god of the sun, light, knowledge, music, art, poetry, oracles, medicine, archery, and prophecy. Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto. His twin sister Artemis is the goddess of the hunt. Myths about Apollo. Apollon or Apollo was one of the Twelve Olympians, the 12 most important gods in Greek mythology. Because of this, there are many myths about him: The Birth of Apollo. Apollo and his twin sister Artemis were the children of Zeus, the king of the Greek gods, and the goddess Leto.When Leto became pregnant, Zeus already had a wife, the queen of the gods Hera. Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Kane Chronicles, The Heroes of Olympus, Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, and The Trials of Apollo all center on the presence of various mythological concepts in the modern world and the forces put in place to combat them.

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Hey, guess what!! Monday brings the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing!!

Oh, you heard? Well, get ready to hear more -- this weekend and Monday will no doubt be a 'One small step for man' marathon.

Which is fine -- the moon mission was a crazy, awe-inspiring thing that could have gone wrong a million ways but didn't. Even though the Apollo program cost about a trillion dollars in today's money, it did give us Tang.

And it also gave us our five favorite myths about Apollo 11.

1) It never happened at all. The internet was designed for crazy conspiracy schemes, and the moon landing is the subject of one of the weirdest. It was all staged in a studio, according to earnest idiots and the producers of the terrible film Capricorn One. (The movie involved a faked Mars landing, but everyone got the point.) Evidence that it was a hoax ranges from allegedly odd shadows (NASA apparently couldn't hire competent lighting directors for their fake setting), the fact that no stars are seen in the moon photos, and even that the the footprints should have faded, as if they were on a sandy beach. Mythbusters, among many others, have exploded -- nay, busted -- these myths.

2) 'Houston' was not the first word said on the moon. This one hits home, obviously, because for some reason Houstonians keep telling outsiders this, we guess in the expectation that those outsiders will drop their jaws and say 'Good Lord, you're right!! My entire image of Houston is now completely changed! It's not a pollution-riddled swamp, it's a world-class city!!' This myth comes from a dispute on just when the Eagle can be described as being 'on the moon.' Was it when it had comfortably settled? Was it when a bit of wire made contact with the surface, warning the astronauts they were close? Depending on which of several interpretations you choose, the first words on the moon can be such inspiring prose as 'Engine arm is off' or 'Descent Engine Command Override, Off.' Ready-made for Bartlett's Book of Quotations.

3. The astronauts might bring back all kinds of space diseases with them. After living in incredibly cramped conditions for a week or so, the Apollo 11 astronauts splashed down, got on board the USS Hornet..and immediately were packed away in a cramped quarantine chamber. It was a converted Airstream trailer and they stayed there until the ship reached port; they were then kept in somewhat looser quarantine until 21 days had passed from splashdown. 'No one knows what diseases might be on the moon; leprosy may be one of those diseases,' CBS's Walter Cronkite solemnly reported, according to Squint: My Journey With Leprosy, an autobiography by a leper. (All the patients in his ward were shocked and disappointed at hearing the words.) Leprosy on the moon? Apparently not.

4. Richard Nixon, president at the time, cared deeply about the moon landing. Well, he probably did -- it was great publicity for him, after all -- but it wasn't all he was thinking about that day. 'You know, this is quite a day on another front, too,' he said when his speechwriter William Safire called to congratulate him on his public comments. What else could have been occupying Nixon's mind? Vietnam? Opening up relations with China? No. That day Teddy Kennedy had made sure 'Chappaquiddick' would be a name long remembered. 'It's be hard to hush this one up,' Nixon told Safire. 'Too many reporters want to win a Pulitzer Prize.' Oh, and man walked on the friggin' moon today.

5. Our favorite: Neil Armstrong made a blow-job related comment on the moon. 'This one's for you, Mr. Jablonski,' he supposedly said, before NASA erased it off the tapes. (The name involved changes according to the storyteller.) Allegedly young Neil was walking past a neighbor's open bedroom window when he heard Mrs. Jablonski (or whomever) say 'Oral sex!! you want oral sex? Yeah, when man walks on the moon.' (Sometimes 'Yeah, when the kid next door walks on the moon.') Alas, it never happened. Armstrong's words, that is. We're not sure how Mr. Jablonski fared.

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Apollo is a god in Greek mythology, and one of the Twelve Olympians. He is the son of Zeus and Leto and the twin brother of Artemis. He is the god of healing, medicine, archery, music, poetry and the sun. He is the leader of the Muses. He also is a god of prophecy, and his Oracle at Delphi is very important. He also is the god of justice. During the 5th century BC, Apollo became also known as the god of Sun, becoming one with the god Helios, and getting the name Phoebus. He is shown as a young man, wearing a laurel wreath and playing the kithara (lyre). It is known as his symbol. His other symbols include the raven.

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Myths about Apollo

Apollon or Apollo was one of the Twelve Olympians, the 12 most important gods in Greek mythology. Because of this, there are many myths about him:

The Birth of Apollo

Apollo and his twin sister Artemis were the children of Zeus, the king of the Greek gods, and the goddess Leto. When Leto became pregnant, Zeus already had a wife, the queen of the gods Hera. Hera was angry that Zeus was having children with Leto, and cursed Leto so that she could not ever give birth to her children anywhere on the earth where the sun shone. Hera then sent a serpent called Python to eat her. Python chased Leto to the edge of the sea, where Leto swam to the island of Delos. Python could not swim, however, and had to leave her alone. The island of Delos was at that time just a big rock floating on the sea, not an island yet, so it wasn't 'on the earth'. So Leto climbed under the shade of a palm tree and gave birth to her daughter Artemis, and then her son Apollo. Delos then became Apollo's and Artemis' sacred land. It varies from myth to myth what twin was born first.

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Apollo and Delphi

Short Myths About Apollo

When Apollo grew up, he went to his father Zeus and asked for a golden bow with arrows as bright and sharp as the sunshine. Then he went looking for a place to build his temple. He came to a spring that belonged to a nymph called Telephusa and tried to build his temple there, but Telephusa suggested he build his temple at Delphi instead, since there was already a shrine there to Themis, the goddess of telling the future. Apollo went to Delphi but found out it was taken over by Python, the dragon who had tried to eat his mother. He killed the Python with a hundred arrows and claimed Delphi as his temple. He got two sailors to be his priests and then gave a girl the power of telling the future. The girl became his priestess or oracle. The little god Eros, the son of the love goddess Aphrodite, had watched Apollo kill Python and worshiped Apollo as his idol. Apollo, however, was annoyed by Eros and insulted him. Eros got angry and shot Apollo with his magic arrow, making him fall in love with a nymph named Daphne. Daphne didn't love Apollo and shunned him. Apollo chased her, and she turned herself into a laurel tree to escape him. Apollo still loved her and made the laurel one of his symbols.

Apollo and Hermes

Apollo looked after the cattle of the sun-god Helios while Helios was driving the sun through the sky. While Apollo was chasing Daphne, the mischievous baby god Hermes stole the cattle and confused Apollo by making the cattle walk backward as they left their pen. When Apollo went looking for them, it looked like they had walked into the ranch instead of out. Hermes also told a nearby man that he would make him rich if he told no one about what he saw Hermes do. The man, Battos, told Apollo anyway and was later turned into stone by Hermes as punishment. Apollo took Hermes in front of all the gods to be judged. Hermes acted innocent, though, and finally convinced Apollo to forgive him by giving him the lyre. Apollo loved this lyre so much that he not only let Hermes keep the cattle but also gave him the caduceus, a magic wand that could heal wounds and cause sleep. Hermes tried the caduceus out on two dying snakes, who came back to life and curled around the wand for the rest of eternity. Apollo, meanwhile, used his lyre to become the god of music and became the leader of the Muses, the nine goddesses of the arts.

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