:sunflower: A P O L L O ‘ S • P L A Y L I S T :sunflower:

hey everyone! today I’m bringing to you a small devotional post for Apollo while I work on a larger project. in this, I want to share with you my playlist for Apollo and some of my favorite songs to represent him! let’s get into this !

#DevotionalSound

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by morgan rogers

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The Playlist — Intro

this playlist is one that I’ve been working on for a long time actually. I think I started it last summer, but after a while I didn’t touch it. I didn’t like a lot of the songs I had added and I didn’t really know how to fix it in a way I would be happy. so, I left it for a year, sitting in my spotify archives, hidden from the rest of the world. it sounds sadder than it is, it’s really just a playlist after all. but I had wanted it to be so perfect and then I just let it go.

I’ve reached a point, however, that I think is a good spot for it. right now, the playlist sits at 98 songs with a run time of 5 hours and 29 minutes. I can easily say it’s a hefty playlist, and honestly, it’ll be changed a whole lot after this post goes up and through the future. finding new songs for Apollo is not a hard task it turns out!

at first, I aimed to create a playlist filled with songs with just “sun” in the title. it was simple and one he would probably enjoy. but the more songs I added, the less I wanted to actually listen to the playlist. which was a huge problem as the point of a devotional playlist is to create and listen in their honor. but I had gotten so deep in that I didn’t know which songs to take out and which ones to keep. so it sat for a year and finally I decided it was time to start over.

but you didn’t come here to get a play by play of me working on the playlist, so let’s start talking about some of those songs! as it is such a hefty playlist, I decided to break up some of the songs into categories for Apollo’s different epithets and aspects.

find the complete playlist on spotify HERE.

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Songs For Phoebus Apollo

Phoebus — bright or pure.

this is probably the most common and modernly popular epithet of his. some may not know this, but this epithet does not mean the literal sun, that was Helios, rather this word means “light”. he can still be revered as a god of the sun, though historically it was much later that this took place, he is not THE sun.

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➳ Island In The Sun — Weezer

➳ Mr. Blue Sky — Electric Light Orchestra

➳ Sail Into The Sun — Gentlemen Hall

➳ A Summer Song — Chad & Jeremy

➳ House of Gold — Twenty One Pilots

➳ Golden — Harry Styles

➳ Sunflower Vol. 6 — Harry Styles

➳ New Light — John Mayer

➳ Sunkissed — khai dreams

➳ Malibu — Miley Cyrus

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as you can see, most of these songs have sun in them or they have a fairly upbeat feel to them. these songs are a wonderful introduction to who I believe Apollo is.

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❝ So slowly a sunlit dream pulls me out of sleep

Feel the morning through the blinds

I get to thinking ‘bout your sunkissed face

And a quite place where I could give you all my time ❞

— Sunkissed

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by morgan rogers

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Songs For Agraeus Apollo

Agraeus — the hunter

we’ve all seen the images and descriptions of Artemis, her being the goddess of the hunt, after all. however, Apollo is also known as a god of the hunt, specifically, a god of archery. the Iliad also starts with Apollo shooting arrows of plague down on the people of Mycenaean Greece, though Homer calls them the “achaeans”.

most of these songs have fairly explicit content.

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➳ Wine Red — The Hush Sound

➳ Hayloft — Mother Mother

➳ Animal — Sir Chloe

➳ The Bidding — Tally Hall

➳ Dirty Night Clowns — Chris Garneau

➳ We Will Rock You — Queen

➳ Oh Ana — Mother Mother

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these songs don’t fit exactly the “hunter” feel, however they are darker songs to represent the duality within Apollo. yes, he is a god of light and music, but there’s also death and disease that comes with him.

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❝ Let them be buried, buried alive

In their suits, in their ties

Trees to shade the moves that they made

In their suits, in their ties

Let them be buried, buried alive

In their suits, in their ties

You’re safe here, now you’re in the clear

Now we’ll eat soup and apple pies ❞

— Dirty Night Clowns

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Songs For Paean Apollo

Paean has a complicated history — it is believed to mean “healer” and is used that way when discussing Apollo. it’s also possibly an older version of Apollo from Mycenaean Greece. Hesiod and Homer both describe Paeon (Paean) as an individual. later still Paean also becomes an epithet for Apollo’s son Asclepius.

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➳ still feel. — half•alive

➳ With A Little Help From My Friends — Wallows (cover) — The Beatles

➳ Honeybee — The Head and the Heart

➳ Medicine — JC Stewart

➳ From Gold — Novo Amor

➳ Heart of Glass — Miley Cyrus (cover) — Blondie

➳ On Melancholy Hill — Gorillaz

➳ Small Talk — Briston Maloney

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healing can be physical but also emotional healing. and sometimes, that healing is really hard. it’s ok to take a step back and find the boundaries for yourself when dealing with other people. they aren’t entitled to anything from you. getting help from the people around you is ok to do — sometimes we need to rely on them because being alone is harder than anything else.

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❝ I still feel alive

When it is hopeless, I start to notice

And I still feel alive

Falling forward, back into orbit

So, when I lose my gravity in this sleepy home

Drifting as I dream, I’ll wake up soon

To realize the hand of life is reaching out

To rid me of my pride, I call allegiance to myself ❞

— still feel.

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Songs For Apollo And Hyacinthus

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➳ Mr Loverman — Ricky Montgomery

➳ Maps — Maroon 5

➳ Mystery of Love — Sufjan Stevens

➳ Amour plastique — Videoclub

➳ Sofia — Clairo

➳ Corduroy Dreams — Rex Orange County

➳ Backyard Boy — Claire Rosinkranz

➳ Sex With A Ghost — Teddy Hyde

➳ As The World Caves In — Matt Maltese

➳ The Garden — Kari Jobe

➳ Dancing With Your Ghost — Sasha Sloan

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as sad as it is to say, Apollo’s love life wasn’t perfect. of course, there were good ones thrown in there, but he never married and most of his loves didn’t last long. the most known lover of Apollo is Hyacinth, also spelled as Hyacinthus, who died tragically in the arms of Apollo. I dedicate most of these love songs to Hyacinth as it is SPG that upon his death and creation of the hyacinth flower, he was immortalized with Apollo.

Hyacinth had a cult worship in Mycenaean Greece in southern Sparta and is known as a divine hero. according to Pausanias, a Greek writer and geographer who lived in 2 AD, Apollo resurrected Hyacinth giving him immortality, and brought him to Olympus. he claimed it was recorded on a throne in Sparta. there was even a three day long Spartan festival, Hyacinthia, to honor his death and celebrate his rebirth.

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❝ I realized

You never left

And for this moment

You planned ahead

That I would see

Your faithfulness in all of the green

I can see the ivy

Growing through the wall

‘Cause You will stop at nothing

To heal my broken soul ❞

— The Garden

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I really hope you all enjoyed this post, though it ended up becoming longer than I had intended ╮(￣▽￣"")╭

it was really fun working on this still, and I hope you all found some new songs to add to your own playlists too!

until next time,

love, Meri