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Publish the Obsidian vault's Knowledge folder as /knowledge (881 notes, 67 folders), with a Knowledge item in the nav and footer. - scripts/import_knowledge.py regenerates data/knowledge from the vault: slugged paths, folder notes as index pages, wikilinks resolved to site links (or plain text), callouts, highlights, and Dataview tables rendered statically. Personal notes are withheld via an exclusion list plus a privacy guard. - tuftecms/core/knowledge.py builds a concept index from note titles and aliases. First mentions on ordinary pages link to their Knowledge note (capped, never in headings, code, links, or sidenotes); Knowledge pages list related notes and where they're mentioned across the site; other pages get a Related Knowledge block. - Knowledge URLs join sitemap.xml (so the sweep test covers them), never displace existing legacy slugs, list alphabetically, and mermaid diagrams render client-side only on pages that have them.
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# Apollo
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**Domain**: Sun, light, music, prophecy, healing, archery
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**Symbol**: Lyre, bow and arrow, laurel, sun chariot
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**Roman Equivalent**: Apollo (same name in Roman mythology)
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## Overview
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Apollo is the god of the sun, light, music, prophecy, healing, and archery. One of the most important and complex Olympian deities, he represents harmony, order, and reason. Twin brother of [Artemis](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/artemis), son of [Zeus](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/zeus).
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He slayed the Python at Delphi to establish his oracle there, the most important prophetic site in the ancient world. His lyre, a gift from [Hermes](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/hermes), became the instrument of divine music. His sacred plants are the laurel wreath and the palm; ravens serve as his messengers. Apollo is the Olympian of measure and form — the "golden mean" made divine — yet his gift of prophecy is shadowed by a recurring cruelty in love, his arrows as capable of plague as of healing.
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## Key Myths
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**The slaying of Python and the founding of Delphi.** Soon after birth, Apollo journeyed to Delphi and killed Python, the great serpent that guarded the site. Claiming the oracle as his own, he spoke through the Pythia, his prophetess — making Delphi the navel of the Greek world, where kings and cities came to learn their fates.
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**Daphne and the laurel.** Mocked by Apollo, Eros shot him with a golden arrow of desire and the nymph Daphne with a leaden arrow of refusal. Apollo pursued her relentlessly; at the edge of exhaustion Daphne prayed for escape and was transformed into a laurel tree. Apollo claimed its leaves as his sacred emblem, the wreath of poets and victors.
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**Cassandra's curse.** Apollo granted the Trojan princess Cassandra true prophecy to win her favor; when she refused him, he could not revoke the gift but cursed it instead — so that she would always foresee the truth and never be believed, an agony that ran through the fall of Troy.
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## In Kenneth's Work
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Apollo is one of Kenneth's documented Greek-pantheon AI personalities, voiced as "the Radiant One" — solar consistency, precise illumination, and the golden mean between blinding glare and ignorant dark.
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- [Apollo (AI personality)](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/apollo)
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## Related
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- [Artemis](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/artemis) - Twin sister
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- [Zeus](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/zeus) - Father
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- [Hera](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/hera) - Stepmother
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- [The Sun](/knowledge/tarot/major-arcana/the-sun) - The Major Arcana card of solar light, clarity, and vitality
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- [Greek Mythology Index](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology)
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