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my myers-briggs type indicator says i am an apollonian temperament. myth has it apollo was commissioned to give man a sense of spirit. and although i'm not the least bit religious, spirituality is important to me. i believe we are all connected, if by nothing other than that we are all alive today, and will all one day face death. for most of us, that will not be an easy thing. it's inconceivable to me, given this undeniable state of existence, how we continually inflict inhumanities upon each other. and for what? money? self-interest?
i read this:
Apollo was the self-appointed bearer of Truth, and he undertook the task of interpreting for men the will of his father, Zeus. Apollo symbolizes the duality of the Hellenic spirit: the urge to ideals, to truth, to beauty, to spirituality and sacredness, and the accompanying desire to plumb the profane, the ugly, the corrupt and the fleshly. He stood for the Grecian ideal of purity of spirit, of dedication to helping others, and the bringer of therapeutic music and song. He represented the healer of mind and body. He was the giver of prophecy, spokesman for the gods, the inspirer and the inspirational, the divine and the incorruptible. The primitive and violent side of Apollo only erupted when his supremacy was challenged or when he was frustrated in his efforts to bring peace and happiness to man. Within Apollo the sense of mission, the cult of the individual, the search for identity existed side by side with untamed lust, the willingness to murder for a cause, the willingness to use priestesses in his rites even at the expense of their sanity and, ultimately, the betrayal of his father, Zeus. In Apollo, side by side, existed the sacred and the profane.
father, i swear i only drove those priestesses temporarily insane!
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