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Apollo and Helios
In Hellenistic times, especially during the 3rd century BCE, as Apollo Helios he became identified among Greeks with Helios, Titan god of the sun, and his sister Artemis similarly equated with Selene, Titan goddess of the moon.
As sun-god and god of light, Apollo was also known by the epithets Aegletes ( ; Αἰγλήτης, Aiglētēs, from αἴγλη, " light of the sun "), Helius ( ; Ἥλιος, Helios, literally " sun "), Phanaeus ( ; Φαναῖος, Phanaios, literally " giving or bringing light "), and Lyceus ( ; Λύκειος, Lukeios, from Proto-Greek * λύκη, " light ").
Such songs were originally addressed to Apollo, and afterwards to other gods: to Dionysus, to Apollo Helios, to Apollo's son Asclepius the healer.
In the late 2nd century CE floor mosaic from El Djem, Roman Thysdrus, he is identifiable as Apollo Helios by his effulgent halo, though now even a god's divine nakedness is concealed by his cloak, a mark of increasing conventions of modesty in the later Empire.
They are also identified with the traditional Greek gods, so one henad might be Apollo and be the cause of all things apollonian, while another might be Helios and be the cause of all sunny things.
In Germanic mythology this is Sol, in Vedic Surya, and in Greek Helios ( occasionally referred to as Titan ) and ( sometimes ) as Apollo.
This statue was later remodeled by Nero's successors into the likeness of Helios ( Sol ) or Apollo, the sun god, by adding the appropriate solar crown.
The temple on top of Monte Smith has traditionally thought to have been devoted to Apollo, but according to Vedder, it would have been a Helios sanctuary.
As two forms of Helios, Apollo and Pluto pose a dichotomy:
Boris Rybakov compared Hors and Dažbog to Helios and Apollo, respectively, concluding that both of them were solar gods, but while Hors represented the Sun itself, Dažbog, as deus dator, rather symbolised the life-giving power of the Sun.
Helios was especially worshipped in Rhodes, but by the 5th Century BC the Greeks had primarily replaced him with Apollo Phoebus.
On Rhodes, Telchines were the name given to similar chthonic men, nine in number, remembered by Greeks as dangerous Underworld smiths and magicians, and multiplied into an entire autochthonous race that had reared Poseidon but had been supplanted by Apollo in his Helios role.
Bai-Ülgen or Ülgen (; Old Turkic: Bey Ülgen ; also spelled Bai-Ulgen, Bai-Ülgen, Bay-Ulgan, Bay-Ulgen, or Bay-Ülgen ) is a Turkic and Mongolian creator-deity, usually distinct from Tengri but sometimes identified with him in the same manner as Helios and Apollo.
In Classical Greece, the " wandering stars " and the gods who directed them were separate entities, as for Plato ; in Hellenistic culture, the association became an inseparable identification, so that Apollo, no longer the regent of the Sun, actually was Helios ( Seznec 1981, pp 37 – 40 ).
In Greek mythology the sun was represented by Apollo, the god of light, and Helios, the god of the sun.

Apollo and /
* Apollo / Saturn V Development Apollo 11 Launch ApolloTV. net Video
Apollo / Saturn vehicles were also used for an Apollo Applications program which consisted of three Skylab space station missions in 1973 – 74.
* Apollo Command / Service Module
The first Socket 7 chipsets to support AGP were the VIA Apollo VP3, SiS 5591 / 5592, and the ALI Aladdin V. Intel never released an AGP-equipped Socket 7 chipset.
Holly helped win over an all-black audience to rock and roll / rockabilly when the Crickets were booked at New York's Apollo Theater for August 16 – 22, 1957.
The site of Delphi is located in lower central Greece, on multiple plateaux / terraces along the slope of Mount Parnassus, and includes the Sanctuary of Apollo, the site of the ancient Oracle.
IMS was a development of software written for the Apollo program on the System / 360.
The most valuable evidence, if relevant, are the treaties and letters mentioned in Hittite cuneiform texts of the same approximate era, which mention an unruly Western Anatolian warlord named Piyama-Radu ( possibly Priam ) and his successor Alaksandu ( possibly Alexander, the nickname of Paris ) both based in Wilusa ( possibly Ilion / Ilios ), as well as the god Apaliunas ( possibly Apollo ).
The complex also includes the separate Apollo / Saturn V Center, north of the VAB and the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame, six miles west near Titusville.
In the final design, the SWS and ATM were launched together, but for the single-launch concept to work, the ATM had to pivot 90 degrees on a truss structure from its launch position to its on-orbit orientation, clearing the way for the crew to dock its Apollo Command / Service Module at the axial docking port of the Multiple Docking Adapter.
Kevin Norwood Bacon ( born July 8, 1958 ) is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Diner, Footloose, Flatliners, Wild Things, A Few Good Men, JFK, The River Wild, Murder in the First, Apollo 13, Hollow Man, Stir of Echoes, Trapped, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Friday the 13th, Death Sentence, Frost / Nixon, X-Men: First Class and Tremors.
During the same period, Unix computer workstations from vendors such as Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, Silicon Graphics, Intergraph, NeXT and Apollo were using TCP / IP based networking.
He attempted to rape Leto near Delphi under the orders of Hera, but was laid low by the arrows of Apollo and / or Artemis, as Pindar recalled in a Pythian ode.
The 68000 became the dominant CPU for Unix based workstations including Sun workstations and Apollo / Domain workstations, found its way into heralded computers such as the Apple Lisa and Macintosh, Amiga, Atari ST, and was used in the first generation of desktop laser printers including the original Apple Inc. LaserWriter and the HP LaserJet.
At its introduction, the 68000 was first used in high-priced systems, including multiuser microcomputers like the WICAT 150, early Alpha Microsystems computers, Sage II / IV, Tandy TRS-80 Model 16, and Fortune 32: 16 ; single-user workstations such as Hewlett-Packard's HP 9000 Series 200 systems, the first Apollo / Domain systems, Sun Microsystems ' Sun-1, and the Corvus Concept ; and graphics terminals like Digital Equipment Corporation's VAXstation 100 and Silicon Graphics ' IRIS 1000 and 1200.
There is also an evident consensus among popular authors that he predicted whatever major event had just happened at the time of each book's publication, from the Apollo moon landings, through the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997, and the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, to the events of 9 / 11: this ' movable feast ' aspect appears to be characteristic of the genre.
Harrison Storms, the North American designer who was responsible for the X-15 rocket plane, and went on to head the effort to design the Apollo Command / Service Module and Saturn V launch vehicle's second stage was moved by the launch of Sputnik to think of space as being the next step for America.
Three manned missions to the station, conducted between 1973 and 1974 using the Apollo Command / Service Module ( CSM ) atop the smaller Saturn IB, each delivered a three-astronaut crew.
On the third mission, an additional Apollo / Saturn IB stood by, ready for launch if needed to rescue the crew in orbit.
Studies generally looked at platforms launched by the Saturn V, followed up by crews launched on Saturn IB using an Project Apollo | Apollo Command / Service Module, or a Gemini capsule on a Titan II-C, the latter being much less expensive in the case where cargo was not needed.

Apollo and Sol
In Latin texts, on the other hand, Joseph Fontenrose declared himself unable to find any conflation of Apollo with Sol among the Augustan poets of the 1st century, not even in the conjurations of Aeneas and Latinus in Aeneid XII ( 161 – 215 ).
As god of the sun, the Romans referred to Apollo as Sol ( ; literally " sun " in Latin ).
In Britain, dedications have been found to Apollo Anextiomarus, Apollo Anicetus Sol, Apollo Grannus and Apollo Maponus ( the latter showing a Latinising influence ,-os becoming-us ).
Sol Gittler ( Dick O ' Neill ) signs them up sight-unseen for the famous Apollo Theater in Harlem, assuming from their music that they're a black band.
: There is but one god and one goddess, but many are their powers and names: Jupiter, Sol, Apollo, Moses, Christus, Luna, Ceres, Proserpina, Tellus, Maria.
*: When the Vector Mars was absent, Apollo, Tsugumi, Lihua and even Silvia united to form an Aquarion out of the Vector Sol, Vector Luna and a Military Vector Omega, respectively, with the Vector Omega taking the position of head, the Vector Sol as the back, and the Vector Luna as the legs.
It consisted of the Vector Sol as the head, the Vector Luna as the back and the Vector Omega as the legs, It was piloted by Apollo, Lihua, and Pierre.

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