Norse
Odin
wisdom, poetry, war
Apollo
Roman tradition. See the whole pantheon.
- Domains
- healing, prophecy, music, the sun (late)
- Symbols and attributes
- Lyre; laurel; bow
- Parents (per the sources used)
- Jupiter
Key myth
One of the few Greek gods taken into Rome with his name; his oldest cult in Rome was as a healer in 431 BCE. Augustus made him a patron after Actium.
Greek counterpart: Apollo on thegreekgods.org. Roman and Greek versions share names and stories in many places but began as different cults.
Place in the family graph
More traditions
Elsewhere in the world
Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Apollo: the sun and light, wisdom, writing and divination, war and fighting. This is overlap in one area only.