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Homer pictures Apollo on the side of the Trojans, fighting against the Achaeans, during the Trojan War.
The god seems to be related to Appaliunas, a tutelary god of Wilusa ( Troy ) in Asia Minor, but the word is not complete.
The Greeks gave to him the name αγυιεύς agyieus as the protector god of public places and houses who wards off evil, and his symbol was a tapered stone or column.
However, while usually Greek festivals were celebrated at the full moon, all the feasts of Apollo were celebrated at the seventh day of the month, and the emphasis given to that day ( sibutu ) indicates a Babylonian origin.
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