The Calm Story of Apollo & Hyacinthus | Boring History For Sleep

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Welcome back, my sleepy friends.
I know you guys are ready to 

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sleep with some Greek mythology 
tonight, so let's snuggle up, 

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because the story you're about 
to hear isn't filled with 

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battles or conquest. 
There are no monsters to slay, 

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no kingdoms to overthrow. 
Instead, this is a tale of 

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friendship, of teaching and 
learning, of how beauty can 

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transform into something 
permanent when we least expect 

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it. 
It's the story of Apollo and 

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Hoyas in Thus, and how their 
companionship became 

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immortalised in a flower that 
still blooms every spring, 

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reminding us that some 
connections transcend even death

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itself. 
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Now get comfortable and let's 
start now, before we meet the 

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mortal boy who would change 
everything, you need to 

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understand Apollo himself. 
Not the simplified version you 

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might remember from a high 
school mythology unit, the sun 

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God with the lyre and the golden
hair, but the more complete 

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picture of who he actually was. 
In the Greek imagination, Apollo

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lived on Mount Olympus, that 
mountain so tall it punched 

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through clouds and existed 
partially in another realm 

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entirely. 
His days were filled with 

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responsibilities that would 
exhaust any modern CEO. 

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Each morning he drove the sun 
chariot across the sky, a task 

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requiring absolute precision 
because even a slight deviation 

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in route could scorch the earth 
below or leave entire regions in

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darkness. 
Imagine being responsible for 

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daylight itself, for the warmth 
that ripens grain and the light 

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that guides ships safely to 
harbour. 

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That was just Apollo's morning 
commute. 

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The chariot itself was a marvel 
of divine engineering, Golden 

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wheels that never needed oiling,
rains woven from captured 

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sunbeams and horses with mains 
that flickered like flame. 

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The four horses each had their 
own personality. 

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Pierois brought fire, AOS 
carried the dawn, Ethan 

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contributed the blazing heat, 
and Flegen added the burning 

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light. 
Managing them required constant 

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attention, because immortal 
horses don't tie the way mortal 

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animals do, which means they're 
perpetually ready to bolt off 

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course if their drivers 
concentration lapses, even 

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momentarily. 
But the sun chariot was merely 1

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aspect of his domain. 
He was also the God of music, 

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and his liar could charm stones 
into dancing and make even 

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Aries, the perpetually grumpy 
war God, tap his foot without 

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realising it. 
Apollo had received this 

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instrument from Hermes as a 
peace offering after the 

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messenger God had stolen 
Apollo's cattle as an infant. 

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A whole other story involving 
baby Hermes inventing the lyre 

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from a tortoise shell and some 
cow sinew. 

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The instrument produced sounds 
that weren't merely pleasant, 

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but had actual power, the 
ability to heal emotional 

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wounds, to inspire creative 
breakthroughs, and to make even 

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the most tone deaf listener 
suddenly understand what music 

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was truly for. 
Apollo presided over prophecy 

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too, speaking through the Oracle
at Delphi and riddles that 

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seemed incomprehensible until 
events unfolded exactly as 

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predicted. 
The temple at Delphi was his 

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most famous shrine, where 
priestesses would breathe 

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vapours rising from cracks in 
the earth and deliver 

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pronouncements that shaped the 
course of wars, marriages and 

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political decisions across the 
Greek world. 

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Kings and peasants alike made 
pilgrimages there, bringing 

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offerings in hopes of glimpsing 
their futures. 

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Apollo found this aspect of his 
responsibilities particularly 

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draining, because mortal futures
were often tragic, and knowing 

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what was coming without being 
able to fully prevent it created

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its own special torture. 
He governed medicine and 

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healing, which meant 
understanding the human body in 

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ways that would make modern 
doctors envious. 

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He knew which plants contained 
compounds that reduced fever, 

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which techniques could set 
broken bones properly, how 

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infection spread, and how to 
prevent them. 

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This knowledge made him 
invaluable during plagues, 

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though even divine healing had 
limits. 

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He could cure individuals, but 
stopping epidemics required 

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addressing their sources, which 
often involved changing human 

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behaviour, something even gods 
found nearly impossible. 

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Poetry fell under his domain as 
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rational thinking. 
He was the God people invoked 

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when they wanted clarity, when 
they needed to think through 

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complex problems, and when they 
sought elegant solutions rather 

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than brute force approaches. 
Archery 2 belonged to him. 

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Not the hunting kind his sister 
Artemis practised, but the 

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precision shooting that required
absolute control, where every 

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arrow hit exactly where intended
because the archer's mind and 

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body worked in perfect 
synchronisation. 

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Basically, if it required skill,
precision or artistic talent, 

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Apollo had a hand in it. 
His portfolio of 

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responsibilities was so 
extensive that he sometimes felt

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stretched thin, pulled in a 
dozen directions simultaneously.

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Mortals prayed for healing, 
while others begged for 

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prophetic guidance, while still 
others wanted help with their 

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poetry. 
While the sun chariot needed 

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driving and the Oracle required 
oversight and musical 

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competitions needed judging, it 
never stopped. 

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You might think being a God 
would be all parties on Olympus 

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and mortals bringing new 
offerings, but divinity came 

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with its own peculiar 
loneliness. 

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Apollo's siblings and fellow 
gods were, to put it mildly, a 

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complicated bunch. 
His father Zeus couldn't stop 

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causing scandals, constantly 
seducing mortal women and 

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creating half divine offspring 
who then caused all sorts of 

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complications. 
The resulting family dynamics 

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made holiday gatherings awkward 
at best and explosive at worst. 

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His twin sister, Artemis 
preferred the wilderness and the

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company of her hunting 
companions. 

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She'd sworn off romantic 
relationships entirely, devoting

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herself to the chase in the 
forest. 

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Apollo loved his sister and 
respected her choices, but it 

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meant she wasn't particularly 
available for casual 

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conversation or emotional 
support. 

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She had her own sphere of 
influence to manage, her own 

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worshippers to attend to, and 
limited patience for Apollo's 

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more social tendencies. 
Dionysus was usually off, 

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starting wine cults and causing 
chaos wherever he went. 

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The God of wine and ecstasy 
wasn't particularly reliable for

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serious conversations, though 
admittedly his parties were 

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legendary. 
Athena stayed buried in 

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strategic planning, always three
steps ahead in some complex game

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of divine chess that only she 
fully understood. 

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She was brilliant, but 
exhausting to be around, every 

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conversation turning into a 
philosophical debate or tactical

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discussion. 
Aphrodite created more problems 

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than she solved, her meddling in
love affairs causing endless 

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complications. 
She meant well, love was her 

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domain after all, But her 
interventions often backfired 

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spectacularly. 
And Hira was perpetually angry 

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about Zeus's behaviour, which 
made family dinners awkward for 

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everyone involved. 
Her rage at her husband's 

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infidelities often spilled over 
onto innocent bystanders, and 

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nobody wanted to be caught in 
the crossfire. 

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The other gods each had their 
quirks. 

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Her Facetus stayed in his forge,
creating magnificent weapons and

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jewellery but rarely 
socialising. 

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Hermes was friendly but always 
rushing off to deliver messages.

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Demeter obsessed over 
agriculture and her daughter 

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Persephone's annual descent to 
the Underworld. 

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Poseidon sulked in his ocean 
palace, still bitter about 

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losing the contest for Athens to
Athena centuries earlier. 

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Hades rarely left the 
Underworld, and honestly, nobody

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blamed him. 
Managing the dead seemed like a 

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depressing job, even by divine 
standards. 

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Apollo had lovers, certainly 
gods and mortals both fell for 

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his golden beauty and divine 
charisma. 

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His appearance was striking. 
Perpetually youthful, with hair 

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that caught sunlight even 
indoors and features that 

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sculptors spent careers trying 
to adequately capture in marble.

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His presence carried warmth, 
literally and figuratively, as 

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if he brought his solar 
associations with him wherever 

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he went. 
But these relationships had a 

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tendency to end badly. 
There was Daphne, who literally 

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turned into a tree to escape his
pursuit. 

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Not exactly a confidence 
booster. 

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He'd been struck by one of 
Eros's arrows, filled with 

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irresistible desire for the 
river nymph, while she'd been 

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hit with an arrow of aversion. 
The resulting chase ended with 

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her begging her father, the 
river God Pennius, to save her, 

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and he transformed her into a 
Laurel tree. 

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Apollo, heartbroken, declared 
the Laurel sacred to him, 

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wearing crowns woven from its 
leaves as a permanent reminder 

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of what he'd lost. 
Cassandra had accepted his 

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romantic attention initially, 
and he'd given her the gift of 

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prophecy as a love offering, but
when she later rejected him, he 

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couldn't take back the prophetic
ability. 

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Divine gifts don't work that 
way. 

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So in spite, he cursed her 
prophecies to never be believed.

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She spent the rest of her life 
knowing exactly what disasters 

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were coming, warning everyone 
around her, and being dismissed 

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as crazy. 
Apollo wasn't proud of that 

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particular response. 
The divine emotions operated 

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intensities that make grudge 
holding particularly 

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destructive. 
Coronis had cheated on him while

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pregnant with his child, 
choosing a mortal man over a 

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God. 
When a white crow, one of 

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Apollo's sacred birds, brought 
him the news. 

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Apollo's rage was instantaneous.
He killed Coronis, though he 

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saved the unborn baby, who 
became Asleepius, the God of 

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medicine. 
The crow, which had been pure 

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white, was turned black as 
punishment for bearing bad news,

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which is why crows have dark 
feathers to this day. 

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It was another relationship that
ended in death and 

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transformation, another reminder
that Apollo's love seemed to 

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carry a curse. 
The pattern repeated itself with

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dispiriting regularity. 
Attraction, brief connection, 

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disaster. 
Apollo began to wonder if 

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something about his divine 
nature made healthy 

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relationships impossible. 
Perhaps the power imbalance was 

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too great. 
Mortals couldn't truly say no to

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a God, which meant consent 
became muddy. 

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Perhaps immortality was the 
problem. 

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How could beings with endless 
time truly connect with those 

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whose lives flickered past in 
what felt like heartbeats? 

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What Apollo craved, though he 
might not have articulated it 

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even to himself, was something 
simpler than romance. 

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He wanted companionship without 
the weight of divine politics. 

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He wanted someone to share his 
knowledge with, to teach without

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the formality of the temple 
setting, where worshippers bowed

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and scraped and never just 
talked to him like a person. 

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He wanted, in essence, a friend.
The irony wasn't lost on him. 

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Here he was a God who could 
literally control the sun's path

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across the heavens, who could 
see fragments of the future, who

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could create music that made the
very cosmos pause to listen. 

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And yet he felt something 
missing. 

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It's peculiar kind of emptiness,
having everything except the one

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thing you actually need. 
The loneliness had been building

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for centuries, but gods don't 
experience time the way mortals 

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do. 
Years blur together when you 

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have infinitely more coming, but
even Apollo could feel the 

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weight of isolation 
accumulating. 

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He'd attended countless 
festivals in his honour, 

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received millions of prayers and
judged hundreds of musical 

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competitions, but none of it 
filled the hollow space that 

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came from never having anyone to
simply be, with no performance 

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or divine dignity required. 
On Olympus, Apollo would 

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sometimes stand at the edge of 
the cloudy precipice and look 

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down at the mortal world below. 
He'd watch humans going about 

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their brief, urgent lives, 
farming, building, arguing, 

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laughing, ageing. 
Their existence seemed 

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simultaneously fragile and 
enviable. 

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They didn't have eternal life, 
but they also didn't carry the 

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burden of forever. 
They formed connections without 

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calculating divine consequences.
They could be surprised, could 

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change, or could be changed by 
others. 

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From his elevated vantage point,
Apollo saw the entire 

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Mediterranean spread below him 
like a map. 

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He watched ships crossing the 
wine dark sea, their sails 

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catching wind as sailors sang 
work songs to keep rhythm. 

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He observed farmers tending 
olive Groves, the silver green 

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leaves shimmering in the 
afternoon heat. 

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He saw shepherds guiding flocks 
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children playing in village 
squares and merchants arguing 

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over prices in crowded agoras. 
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Sparta, that military city state
known for producing warriors as 

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reliably as other regions 
produced olives. 

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Sparta occupied a valley in the 
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surrounded by mountains that 
provided natural defence. 

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The city itself was notably 
lacking in grand architecture. 

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Spartans believed in austerity, 
investing resources in military 

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training rather than decorative 
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Their values were brutally 
simple strength, discipline, 

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obedience and courage. 
But Sparta wasn't just soldiers 

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and Shields. 
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excellence and education, or at 
least their particular 

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interpretation of education, 
which involved a lot more 

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wrestling and a lot less poetry 
than Apollo might have 

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preferred. 
The Spartans believed physical 

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perfection reflected internal 
excellence, that training the 

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body disciplined the mind, and 
that athletic competition 

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prepared young men for warfare 
while also honouring the gods. 

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And there, training in the 
gymnasium was a boy who caught 

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Apollo's divine attention like 
sunlight catching on bronze. 

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The gymnasium was an open air 
facility common across Greece 

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where young men trained naked. 
The word gymnasium literally 

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derives from gymnos, meaning 
naked. 

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This wasn't considered sexual or
inappropriate, but practical and

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egalitarian. 
Everyone trained in the same 

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state. 
No expensive clothing to mark 

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class distinctions and nothing 
to hide poor form or inadequate 

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conditioning. 
Olive oil was applied to the 

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skin before exercise, both for 
cleansing purposes and to make 

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the muscles movements more 
visible, easier to critique, and

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improved. 
Apollo watched this particular 

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training session with growing 
interest. 

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Most of the young Spartans were 
competent and well drilled in 

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their techniques, but one stood 
out. 

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Not because he was the strongest
or fastest, though he was 

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clearly athletic, but because of
something harder to define. 

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A quality of movement, perhaps, 
or an expression of focused 

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concentration that suggested 
intelligence guiding the 

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physical effort. 
This was HEU sin, thus, though 

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Apollo didn't know his name yet.
And even from Olympus, even from

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that divine distance, Apollo 
recognized something special. 

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Kwiasin, thus, wasn't what you'd
expect for someone about to 

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attract the attention of a God. 
He wasn't a Prince with a tragic

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destiny mapped out by the Fates,
and wasn't a hero destined for 

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legendary deeds that bards would
sing about for centuries. 

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He was simply a Spartan youth, 
probably around 16 or 17 years 

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old, with the kind of beauty 
that made even pragmatic Spartan

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stop and stare. 
You need to understand what 

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beauty meant to the ancient 
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what we mean by the word today. 
It wasn't just about physical 

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appearance, though. 
Triassin thus certainly had that

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dark curls that caught the light
like polished bronze. 

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Strong limbs developed through 
constant athletic training since

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childhood and a face that 
sculptors would study for hours 

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trying to capture it's 
particular balance of strength 

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and gentleness. 
His features held that quality 

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the Greeks called symmetry, not 
meaning identical sides, but 

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rather proportions that pleased 
the eye and that suggested 

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harmony and balance. 
The Greek beauty, the word they 

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used was chaos, encompassed more
than surface appeal. 

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It suggested excellence in 
action, virtue and character, 

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and the kind of grace that comes
from a body and mind working in 

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perfect synchronisation. 
Beauty was moral as much as 

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physical and outward 
manifestation of internal 

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excellence. 
When Greeks praised someone as 

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beautiful, they were making a 
statement about that person's 

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entire being, not just their 
appearance. 

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She'll see. 
Ursin thus possessed this 

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quality. 
When he threw the discus, his 

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form was technically perfect, 
feet position precisely, torso 

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rotating at the optimal angle 
and arm extending in a smooth 

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arc that wasted no energy on 
unnecessary movement. 

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Modern coaches would film it and
use it as instructional 

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material, breaking down each 
element of his technique to show

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students what perfect execution 
looked like when he ran. 

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His stride had an efficiency 
that covered maximum distance 

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with minimum effort. 
His breathing synchronised with 

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his footfalls in that rhythm 
experienced runners know but can

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never quite teach to beginners. 
When he wrestled, A crucial part

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of Spartan training, he combined
strength with strategy in ways 

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that defeated larger opponents. 
Wrestling wasn't just about 

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overpowering your opponent, but 
about reading their movements, 

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anticipating their next grip, 
and using their own momentum 

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against them. 
Xiao Wei, A Sin, thus excelled 

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at this mental aspect, turning 
wrestling matches into chess 

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games played with bodies instead
of pieces. 

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But beyond the athletics, there 
was something else that made he 

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a Sin thus unusual in Sparta's 
military culture. 

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A curiosity, an openness to 
learning, and a genuine kindness

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that hadn't been beaten out of 
him by the notoriously harsh 

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training regimens. 
Sparta's educational system, The

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Agorg, was designed to produce 
obedient warriors, not 

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philosophers. 
Boys were taken from their 

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families at age 7 and subjected 
to brutal conditioning, minimal 

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food to teach them to steal 
without getting caught, public 

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beatings to build pain 
tolerance, and constant 

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competition to establish 
hierarchies. 

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Somehow, Hye CN thus had 
survived this system without 

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losing his gentle equalities. 
He helped younger trainees with 

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their techniques rather than 
bullying them the way older boys

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were expected to. 
When he noticed mistakes, he 

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corrected them with patient 
explanations rather than 

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mockery. 
During meals, those meagre 

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portions that were never quite 
enough, he'd sometimes share 

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bits of his food with boys who 
look particularly hungry, an act

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of compassion that was 
technically discouraged but hard

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to punish when done discreetly. 
Apollo watched him for days 

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before making his approach. 
This wasn't the typical divine 

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infatuation, where a God spots 
an attractive mortal and 

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immediately descends in some 
dramatic fashion, Thunder 

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booming like blazing mortals 
falling to their knees in awe. 

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Apollo had learned from his 
previous relationship disasters 

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that dramatic approaches rarely 
lead to genuine connections 

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instead. 
He took his time observing not 

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just Hye Arsindas's physical 
skills, but also his character, 

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his interactions, and the small 
moments when people reveal who 

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they really are. 
He saw how hype we E Asindas 

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responded when he won 
competitions with grace rather 

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than gloating, offering genuine 
compliments to his defeated 

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opponents rather than rubbing 
his victories in their faces. 

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He noticed how the boy would 
sometimes pause during his runs 

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to look at the surrounding 
landscape, at the mountains 

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rising in the distance, and at 
the way light fell through olive

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trees, as if beauty itself drew 
his attention the way strategy 

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might captivate other Spartans. 
During one observation session, 

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Apollo watched Hye Sin thus stop
to help an elderly man who'd 

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stumbled while carrying a heavy 
load. 

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This simple act of kindness, 
unobserved by anyone except a 

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God watching from Olympus, told 
Apollo more about the boy's 

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character than any athletic 
achievement could. 

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Sparta's values emphasize 
strength and military prowess, 

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often at the expense of 
compassion. 

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Seeing he see a sin thus choose 
kindness when there was no 

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social benefit to doing so 
suggested a moral core that had 

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survived his harsh upbringing 
intact. 

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Apollo also noticed how huya sin
thus interacted with animals. 

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Stray dogs followed him, 
hopefully sensing his gentle 

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nature. 
Horses calmed under his touch, 

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even spirited ones that gave 
other handlers trouble. 

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Birds seemed less wary when he 
was near, as if they recognized 

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he posed no threat. 
This affinity with animals often

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indicated a person who possessed
empathy and patience, qualities 

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Apollo found himself 
increasingly drawn to. 

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When Apollo finally decided to 
introduce himself, he didn't 

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arrive with thunderbolts or 
divine fanfare. 

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He simply appeared at the 
gymnasium one afternoon in 

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mortal form, looking like a 
young man, perhaps a few years 

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older than he of Year Sin. 
Thus dressed in simple training 

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clothes that wouldn't attract 
particular attention. 

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He'd made himself attractive, 
but not impossibly so, the kind 

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of looks that drew appreciative 
glances without making people 

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suspicious about divine 
involvement. 

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In Greek culture, particularly 
in Sparta, it wasn't unusual for

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older men to befriend and mentor
younger ones. 

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These relationships, called 
pedrasty, though the term had 

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different connotations than its 
modern usage, were considered 

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important for education and 
social development. 

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An older male would guide a 
younger one through the 

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transition to adulthood, 
teaching practical skills, 

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social expectations, and 
cultural values. 

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The relationship sometimes 
included romantic or sexual 

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elements, though this varied 
significantly based on region, 

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individuals, and circumstances. 
In Sparta, these bonds were seen

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as strengthening military 
cohesion. 

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Men who loved each other fought 
more fiercely to protect one 

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another, so Apollo's approach 
wouldn't have seemed strange to 

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anyone. 
Watching an older youth offering

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coaching to a promising younger 
athlete was perfectly normal, 

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even expected. 
Apollo waited until Hye Sin thus

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completed a series of discus 
throws, watching the boys 

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technique with genuine interest 
rather than divine 

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condescension. 
When the last throw landed a 

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good distance but with slight 
rotation issues that reduced 

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effectiveness, Apollo approached
casually, as if they were 

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already acquainted. 
Your discus technique is 

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excellent. 
Apollo said, his voice carrying 

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the warmth of a genuine 
compliment rather than empty 

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flattery. 
But you're rotating your 

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shoulders too early. 
If you wait just a fraction 

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longer, feel the weight shift 
completely to your back foot 

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first, you'll get significantly 
more distance. 

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Thus turned surprised. 
He'd been training alone and 

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hadn't noticed the stranger 
watching. 

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In Sparta, unsolicited coaching 
could be taken as an insult, 

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suggesting the recipient wasn't 
already perfect or that the 

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speaker presumed authority they 
hadn't earned. 

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Many young Spartans would have 
responded with defensive 

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hostility, viewing the comment 
as a challenge to their 

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competence. 
But Yasin Thus just examined 

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Apollo with curious interest, 
taking a moment to assess this 

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stranger who spoke with such 
confidence. 

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He saw someone athletic and 
poised, someone whose own body 

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suggested extensive training, 
whose stance indicated comfort 

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with physical activity. 
And there was something in the 

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stranger's eyes, a warmth, A 
genuine interest that diffused 

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any potential offence. 
Show me here, Sin Thus asked, 

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holding out the discus. 
It was a test, in a way. 

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If this stranger was all talk, 
the offer would expose him as 

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someone who critiqued better 
than he performed. 

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But if he could actually do what
he claimed, then his advice was 

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worth considering. 
Apollo took the bronze disc, 

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feeling its familiar weight in 
his palm. 

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Discus throwing went back to the
earliest Greek games, a test of 

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strength, technique, and 
precision. 

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The implement itself was 
deceptively simple, a flat, 

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circular weight with slightly 
raised edges for grip. 

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But mastering its use required 
years of practice. 

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You had to feel the weight, 
understand its flight 

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characteristics, and know 
exactly when to release for 

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maximum distance and accuracy. 
He didn't cheat using divine 

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power. 
Where would be the fun in that? 

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But his countless years of 
experience guided the throw. 

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Apollo had been throwing excuses
since before most Greek cities 

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existed, had taught the sport to
heroes and kings, and had judged

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competitions across the 
Mediterranean. 

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His muscle memory went deeper 
than any mortals could. 

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His understanding of physics and
trajectory is more complete. 

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The discus left his hand at the 
perfect moment, spinning with 

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ideal rotation, following an arc
so clean it looked like a 

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mathematical diagram come to 
life. 

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It flew substantially farther 
than Hyas in Thus's best 

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attempt, landing with a solid 
thud that kicked up dust where 

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it struck. 
Several other athletes had 

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stopped their own training to 
watch, recognizing an 

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exceptional throw when they saw 
one. 

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There was a moment of 
appreciative silence, the kind 

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athletic communities give to 
excellence, before normal 

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gymnasium noise resumed. 
Us, in Thus's response, told 

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Apollo everything he needed to 
know about the boy's character 

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instead of sulking or making 
excuses about how he wasn't 

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properly warmed up, about how 
his earlier throws had already 

465
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:53,200
tied his arms, or about how the 
stranger must have gotten lucky,

466
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,640
All the responses Apollo had 
seen from other young athletes 

467
00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:58,600
confronted with superior 
performance. 

468
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,720
Why a sin? 
Thus grinned with genuine 

469
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,240
delight. 
That was incredible, he said, 

470
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:09,480
his admiration unfeigned. 
Can you teach me that, please? 

471
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,160
I've been trying to increase my 
distance for months, but 

472
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:15,360
plateaued. 
The request was direct, humble, 

473
00:27:15,360 --> 00:27:18,640
and enthusiastic. 
Everything Apollo hoped for. 

474
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:22,160
Here was someone more interested
in learning than protecting his 

475
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:25,840
ego, more excited by excellence 
than threatened by it. 

476
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:30,040
This was exactly the kind of 
student Apollo had been hoping 

477
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:31,960
to find. 
I can teach you. 

478
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:34,920
Apollo agreed, matching Hui 
Yusindius's smile with his own. 

479
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,640
But it'll take time. 
Good technique develops 

480
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:41,120
gradually, not overnight. 
I have time, Huiah. 

481
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:44,200
Us in Thus assured him. 
I'm here us in Thus, by the way,

482
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:46,080
in case you want to know who 
you're coaching. 

483
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:49,320
Apollo the God replied, using 
his real name. 

484
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:52,200
Because why not? 
Mortals rarely believe they were

485
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,800
actually meeting gods, even when
those gods introduced themselves

486
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:59,960
honestly, they assumed it was 
just a name, a coincidence that 

487
00:27:59,960 --> 00:28:02,320
someone happened to share the 
sun God's title. 

488
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,280
Like the God we are. 
Sin thus asked, amused. 

489
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,760
Exactly like the God. 
Apollo confirmed, his smile 

490
00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:12,520
widening at the irony. 
Gia Sin thus laughed, taking it 

491
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:15,120
as a joke. 
Well then, Divine Apollo, please

492
00:28:15,120 --> 00:28:17,600
share your celestial wisdom 
about discus throwing with this 

493
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:20,360
humble mortal. 
And just like that, a friendship

494
00:28:20,360 --> 00:28:23,320
began. 
Over the following weeks, Apollo

495
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:27,120
and Hye as Sin thus became 
inseparable to the other 

496
00:28:27,120 --> 00:28:29,000
Spartans. 
It appeared to be a typical 

497
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,280
mentorship, an older youth 
teaching a younger 1 the finer 

498
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:34,120
points of athletics and 
philosophy. 

499
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:38,200
No one questioned it because 
such relationships were woven 

500
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:42,040
into the fabric of Greek 
society, particularly in Sparta,

501
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:46,200
where male bonds were considered
crucial to military cohesion and

502
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,800
social stability. 
But this connection was 

503
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:50,840
different from those formal 
mentorships. 

504
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:54,960
Apollo, despite his divine 
nature, or perhaps because of 

505
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:59,520
it, found himself genuinely 
enjoying Shui Asindhas's company

506
00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:03,800
in ways he hadn't anticipated. 
The boy asked questions 

507
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:08,960
constantly, his mind as agile as
his body, never satisfied with 

508
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:12,720
surface explanations but always 
pushing deeper, wanting to 

509
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:16,080
understand the underlying 
principles, the why behind the 

510
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:18,000
what. 
They spent their mornings in 

511
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,240
athletic training at the 
gymnasium, arriving early when 

512
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:24,360
dew still clung to grass and the
air held night's coolness before

513
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:28,200
the sun burned it away. 
Apollo would demonstrate discus 

514
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:31,600
throws, breaking down each 
element of the motion, the 

515
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:34,760
stance, the weight shift, the 
rotation, the release point, 

516
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,160
explaining not just what to do, 
but why it worked. 

517
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,760
She, as in Thus would practice 
each component separately, 

518
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:45,240
drilling the movements until 
muscle memory developed, until 

519
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:48,000
his body could execute them 
without conscious thought. 

520
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:52,480
Feel the weight here, Apollo 
would say, positioning H we E 

521
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:55,760
sin thus's feet. 
Your power comes from the ground

522
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:58,920
up, not from your arms. 
The throw is really just 

523
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,280
directing energy that starts in 
your legs. 

524
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:05,160
Hwa E sin thus would nod, 
focusing. 

525
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,600
With that intense concentration 
he brought to learning. 

526
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:11,600
He practised the stance, 
shifting his weight, feeling how

527
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,600
the position of his feet 
changed, which muscles engaged. 

528
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:19,280
Then he'd add the rotation, 
keeping his core tight, learning

529
00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:22,560
to transfer momentum smoothly 
from lower body to upper. 

530
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:26,760
Finally, the release, that 
crucial moment when everything 

531
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:30,280
came together, when technique 
translated into flight. 

532
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:34,800
His throes improved steadily, 
distance increasing week by week

533
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:38,240
as his form refined. 
Apollo watched with genuine 

534
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:41,560
pride, the kind a teacher feels 
when a student's success 

535
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:44,880
reflects not just talent but 
dedicated effort. 

536
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:48,680
He has sin, thus never 
complained about repetition, 

537
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:51,920
never grew impatient with 
gradual progress. 

538
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:56,080
He understood that excellence 
required patience, that 

539
00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:59,560
shortcuts lead to sloppy 
technique that would have to be 

540
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:00,480
unlearned. 
Later. 

541
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:04,440
They worked on javelin throwing 
too, Apollo teaching the grip 

542
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:07,680
that maximised distance without 
sacrificing accuracy. 

543
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,560
The javelin required different 
skills than the discus, more 

544
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:15,520
about speed and aim, less about 
rotational power. 

545
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:21,160
Hye a Sin thus took to it 
naturally, his strong shoulders 

546
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:23,200
and quick reflexes serving him 
well. 

547
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:27,880
Apollo showed him how to gauge 
wind direction, how to adjust 

548
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,880
his angle of release for 
different distances, and how to 

549
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:33,600
follow through properly to avoid
shoulder strain. 

550
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,200
Wrestling occupied afternoons 
when the day's heat made running

551
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:40,440
uncomfortable but physical 
activity was still possible. 

552
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:43,840
Greek wrestling was 
sophisticated, with complex 

553
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:47,720
rules about holes, throws and 
victory conditions. 

554
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:50,440
You won by throwing your 
opponent to the ground three 

555
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:54,560
times, or by forcing them out of
the designated area, or by 

556
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:57,880
getting them to submit. 
Striking was forbidden. 

557
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:02,840
This wasn't boxing, so the art 
focused on leverage, balance and

558
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:06,840
technique rather than raw power.
Apollo had wrestled for 

559
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:10,080
millennia and knew every trick 
and counter move that existed, 

560
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:14,560
but he didn't simply overpower 
hechuya sin, thus with superior 

561
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:17,000
skill. 
Instead, he taught 

562
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:21,280
incrementally, introducing new 
techniques one at a time, giving

563
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:24,440
the boy opportunities to 
practice them in actual matches.

564
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,640
He deliberately set up 
situations where a specific move

565
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:32,480
would be effective, then 
congratulate wojviya sin thus 

566
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,560
when he successfully applied the
technique there. 

567
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:38,480
That hip throw perfect 
execution. 

568
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:40,880
Apollo would praise after he has
sin thus successfully 

569
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:42,720
demonstrated a move they'd been 
drilling. 

570
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,280
Feel how you use my momentum 
against me. 

571
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:49,320
That's the key. 
Forces your opponent's problem 

572
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:53,040
to manage, not yours to create. 
Between training sessions, 

573
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:56,280
they'd rest in whatever shade 
they could find under olive 

574
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:58,840
trees or the gymnasium's portico
and talk. 

575
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:03,280
Shihi Yasin thus wanted to know 
everything. 

576
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:08,120
Why the sky changed colours at 
sunset, how music could evoke 

577
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:11,880
specific emotions. 
What made some poems memorable 

578
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:15,120
while others faded. 
Why the human body could perform

579
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:19,080
certain feats and not others. 
Apollo found himself explaining 

580
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,360
concepts he'd taken for granted 
for millennia. 

581
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:26,360
He described how light worked, 
painting word pictures of rays 

582
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:29,400
travelling from the sun to 
Earth, how different angles 

583
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:32,840
created different colours, and 
why twilight lasted longer than 

584
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:37,320
dawn. 
He taught Haifi a sin thus about

585
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:40,440
astronomy, pointing out 
constellations visible in 

586
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:43,760
daylight if he knew exactly 
where to look, explaining how 

587
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:47,480
sailors use them for navigation 
and how the star's positions 

588
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:50,560
change with seasons. 
That bright point just visible 

589
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:52,640
near the horizon? 
Apollo indicated with his 

590
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,520
finger. 
That's Aphrodite's star. 

591
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:58,640
Mortals call it the morning star
or evening star, depending on 

592
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:02,120
when they see it, not realizing 
it's the same object. 

593
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:06,000
It's actually a world like 
Earth, closer to the sun, 

594
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:10,920
covered in clouds so thick you'd
never see the surface like ya 

595
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,719
sin thus squinted in the 
direction Apollo pointed, trying

596
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,960
to spot the faint glimmer. 
How do you know what the surface

597
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:19,760
looks like if the clouds are 
that thick? 

598
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:22,880
Because I've been close enough 
to feel the heat radiating from 

599
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:24,480
it. 
Apollo said, which was 

600
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:27,360
technically true. 
His son Chariot passed near 

601
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:30,520
Venus regularly. 
Trust me, you wouldn't want to 

602
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:34,760
visit hot enough to melt bronze.
He shared medical knowledge too,

603
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:37,600
showing which plants healed 
which ailments, how to set a 

604
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:40,600
broken bone so it would mend 
straight, and why fever 

605
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:43,520
sometimes help the body fight 
illness rather than just causing

606
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:45,600
suffering. 
Why a sin? 

607
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:49,159
Thus absorbed it all with hungry
interest, occasionally running 

608
00:34:49,159 --> 00:34:52,600
to gather plant samples. 
Apollo mentioned wanting to see 

609
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:56,320
and touch the leaves, to smell 
them and to understand how you'd

610
00:34:56,320 --> 00:35:01,080
identify them in the wild. 
This one Careful, the leaves can

611
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:04,560
irritate skin if you're 
sensitive, but if you brew it as

612
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:09,480
tea, it reduces fever and pain. 
Apollo explained holding up a 

613
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:13,800
plant with small white flowers. 
Especially useful for headaches 

614
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:15,640
or muscle soreness after 
training. 

615
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:18,360
How much do you use? 
How long does it brew? 

616
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:22,520
Yassin thus wanted specifics. 
Practical knowledge he could 

617
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:27,480
apply depends on the severity. 
For mild pain, a small handful 

618
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:29,760
of flowers is steeped until the 
water cools. 

619
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:34,120
For severe pain, more flowers, 
hotter water, and longer 

620
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,200
steeping. 
But don't overdo it. 

621
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:39,680
Too much can upset your stomach,
and then you've traded one 

622
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:42,600
problem for another. 
But the teaching flowed both 

623
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:45,760
ways. 
Shiusin thus taught Apollo about

624
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:49,080
the mortal experience in ways no
amount of divine observation 

625
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,840
could capture. 
He explained how it felt to 

626
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:55,280
improve it, a skill, the 
satisfaction of mastering 

627
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,360
something that had previously 
defeated you. 

628
00:35:58,240 --> 00:36:01,880
He described the urgency of 
mortal time, how knowing your 

629
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:05,320
days were limited made each 
sunset more vivid and each 

630
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:07,960
achievement more meaningful, 
because it might be your last 

631
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:11,480
opportunity to excel. 
When you have forever, does 

632
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:15,000
anything feel important? 
I us sin thus asked one evening,

633
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:18,600
unknowingly striking at one of 
Apollo's core struggles. 

634
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:22,120
I mean, if there's always 
tomorrow, why would today 

635
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:24,200
matter? 
Apollo considered this 

636
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:26,760
carefully. 
Everything matters, and nothing 

637
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:30,160
does simultaneously. 
I can't explain it well. 

638
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:33,440
Important events pile up until 
they blur together. 

639
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,920
But at the same time, because I 
remember everything clearly, 

640
00:36:37,240 --> 00:36:41,240
each moment exists forever in my
memory, which makes it permanent

641
00:36:41,240 --> 00:36:44,360
in a way you don't experience. 
That sounds lonely. 

642
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:48,120
She has seen, thus observed 
quietly, remembering everything,

643
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:51,600
never forgetting, never able to 
just let things go and move 

644
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:53,960
forward. 
The boy's insight surprised 

645
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:56,680
Apollo. 
It is lonely, he admitted. 

646
00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:59,560
Which is part of why I'm 
enjoying this so much. 

647
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:01,920
You make everything feel fresh 
again. 

648
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:05,720
Seeing you discover things I've 
known forever, it's like 

649
00:37:05,720 --> 00:37:08,880
experiencing them for the first 
time through your reactions. 

650
00:37:09,240 --> 00:37:12,400
Afternoons were for music and 
poetry, when physical training 

651
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:16,240
would be counterproductive, when
muscles needed rest but mind 

652
00:37:16,240 --> 00:37:20,160
stayed active. 
Apollo brought his lyre, not the

653
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:23,960
full power divine instrument, 
but a beautiful mortal version 

654
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:26,880
he'd commissioned from the best 
Craftsman in Athens. 

655
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:31,120
It's frame was tortoise shell, 
it's strings gut, and it's pegs 

656
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:34,280
carved from ivory. 
When played properly, it 

657
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:36,680
produced sounds that made 
listeners stop whatever they 

658
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:41,160
were doing and just listen. 
Apollo taught hye as in thus 

659
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:43,760
basic playing techniques, 
showing him how to hold the 

660
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:47,080
instrument, how to pluck strings
cleanly without accidentally 

661
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:50,960
muting adjacent ones, and how 
different hand positions created

662
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,560
different tones. 
H were a sin. 

663
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:56,480
Thus proved to be a decent 
student, though he readily 

664
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:58,480
admitted music wasn't his 
strongest skill. 

665
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:01,720
My fingers feel too thick for 
these strings, he'd say, 

666
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,920
laughing at his own clumsiness 
when he struck wrong notes. 

667
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:08,200
I think I'm more suited to 
throwing things than playing 

668
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,800
things. 
That's just unfamiliarity, 

669
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:14,120
Apollo would assure him. 
Your fingers are exactly right. 

670
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:17,880
You just need practice. 
Musicians develop calluses and 

671
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:20,080
muscle memory the same way 
athletes do. 

672
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:23,080
Give it time. 
They'd compose silly songs 

673
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:26,320
together, competing to see who 
could rhyme the most ridiculous 

674
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:29,080
words or create the most absurd 
metaphors. 

675
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:33,680
Hallway a Sin thus would 
deliberately craft terrible 

676
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:37,600
verses, mangling meter and sense
until both of them were laughing

677
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:41,480
too hard to continue. 
These moments delighted Apollo 

678
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,040
more than any perfectly 
performed hymn in his honour. 

679
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:46,600
For once, excellence didn't 
matter. 

680
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:51,240
Joy was the only goal. 
The warrior bowled his toes so 

681
00:38:51,240 --> 00:38:54,400
cold fought enemies with 
toenails of gold. 

682
00:38:54,720 --> 00:38:58,800
So Jason thus would sing an 
exaggerated melodramatic style, 

683
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:02,600
making up nonsense as he went. 
Apollo would counter with 

684
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:06,560
equally ridiculous verses. 
The maiden, fair with lovely 

685
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,320
hair, once kissed a turn upon a 
dare. 

686
00:39:09,720 --> 00:39:12,520
They'd continue until the entire
song devolved into 

687
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:15,560
incomprehensible gibberish and 
both of them collapsed with 

688
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:19,400
laughter, other athletes looking
over with bemused expressions, 

689
00:39:19,720 --> 00:39:22,440
wondering what their city's most
promising young warrior was 

690
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:26,120
doing, giggling about turnips 
with his eccentric mentor. 

691
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,400
Apollo taught him about poetry 
too, the serious kind, 

692
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:33,280
explaining how ancient bards had
used strict meters to memorize 

693
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:37,520
impossibly long epic poems 
before writing became common. 

694
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:41,600
He recited passages from the 
Iliad and Odyssey, which were 

695
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:45,080
relatively recent compositions 
at this point, showing how the 

696
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:50,760
repeated phrases wine, dark sea,
rosy fingered dawn, swift footed

697
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:55,160
Achilles weren't just poetic but
mnemonic devices helping bards 

698
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:58,680
remember thousands of lines. 
So when they say swift footed 

699
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:03,240
Achilles every time Nachui Usin 
thus worked through the logic, 

700
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:06,720
it's not just a description but 
also a memory aid. 

701
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:10,240
The same phrase always follows 
Achilles, so you know what comes

702
00:40:10,240 --> 00:40:14,840
next exactly. 
And the meter helps too. 

703
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:19,360
Greek poetry follows rhythmic 
patterns that are easier to 

704
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:23,200
remember than random speech. 
Your mind anticipates the 

705
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:26,240
rhythm, which helps recall the 
words. 

706
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:30,240
Apollo demonstrated by reciting 
a passage with exaggerated 

707
00:40:30,240 --> 00:40:34,720
emphasis on the rhythmic beats. 
Schwa sin thus tried memorizing 

708
00:40:34,720 --> 00:40:38,600
sections himself, stumbling over
unfamiliar words but gradually 

709
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:41,680
building fluency. 
Apollo would correct his 

710
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:45,560
pronunciation gently, explaining
how certain syllables were 

711
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:49,480
stressed in proper Greek, how 
line breaks affected meaning, 

712
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:53,440
and how good poetry operated on 
multiple levels simultaneously. 

713
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:58,120
Surface story, deeper themes, 
and linguistic musicality all 

714
00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:00,760
working together. 
Evenings found them talking, 

715
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:03,640
just talking about everything 
and nothing. 

716
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:07,960
They'd sit on a hillside 
overlooking Sparta as stars 

717
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:12,040
emerged in the darkening sky. 
The city would be settling into 

718
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:17,600
night, cooking fires producing 
thin columns of smoke, voices 

719
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:21,360
carrying across the quiet 
valley, and dogs barking in the 

720
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:24,640
distance. 
This was Apollo's favorite time 

721
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:27,720
of day, when his solar duties 
were complete but night's 

722
00:41:27,720 --> 00:41:29,680
responsibilities hadn't yet 
begun. 

723
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:33,200
Apollo would point out planets 
and stars, though he had to be 

724
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:35,760
careful not to reveal too much 
divine knowledge. 

725
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:40,120
That's Aphrodite's star, the 
bright 1 low on the horizon, 

726
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:43,120
he'd say. 
Or that constellation is the 

727
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:46,680
great hunter Orion, though 
between you and me, his 

728
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:49,320
reputation exceeds his actual 
accomplishments. 

729
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:52,600
Artemis tells stories about his 
terrible hunting form. 

730
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:56,160
You're making that up, yes, in 
thus would accuse, grinning. 

731
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:59,280
Maybe Apollo would admit, but it
could be true. 

732
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:02,360
They discuss philosophy too, 
though neither called it that. 

733
00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:06,000
Questions about virtue and 
excellence, about what made a 

734
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:08,880
life meaningful, and about 
whether it was better to be 

735
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:11,600
remembered for greatness or 
forgotten but happy. 

736
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:14,920
These were the kinds of 
conversations Spartans didn't 

737
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:18,280
typically engage in. 
Their culture valued action over

738
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:21,720
contemplation, military 
achievement over philosophical 

739
00:42:21,720 --> 00:42:24,040
enquiry. 
Do you think it's better to live

740
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:27,080
shorter but accomplish more, or 
longer but never do anything 

741
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:29,160
particularly notable? 
Yes. 

742
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:32,240
In Thus asked one evening, 
Apollo thought about his own 

743
00:42:32,240 --> 00:42:35,880
immortal existence. 
I don't think the length matters

744
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:39,360
as much as the quality. 
A short life filled with meaning

745
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:44,160
and connection is better than an
endless one that's empty, though

746
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:48,640
obviously a long meaningful life
would be ideal, but you'd get 

747
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:51,640
more meaning in total if you 
lived longer while sin thus 

748
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:54,360
reasoned. 
So shouldn't length matter only 

749
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:56,760
if meaning accumulates? 
Apollo counted. 

750
00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:59,840
Maybe it doesn't. 
Maybe you only get so much 

751
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:03,280
meaningful experience regardless
of how long you live, and the 

752
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:07,480
rest is just repetition. 
Hye us in thus talked about his 

753
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:10,120
family. 
His father was a Spartan of 

754
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:13,360
modest rank, nothing 
particularly distinguished, and 

755
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:15,200
his mother had died when he was 
young. 

756
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:18,280
He had siblings, but wasn't 
especially close to them. 

757
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:22,320
Spartan society deliberately 
weakened family bonds to 

758
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:25,680
strengthen loyalty to the state,
and that conditioning had worked

759
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:28,880
to some degree. 
He spoke about his training, the

760
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:32,040
brutal years of the agog that 
had shaped him, and the teachers

761
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:34,880
who'd beaten him and praised him
and pushed him toward 

762
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:37,840
excellence. 
He talked about his dreams, too,

763
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:41,520
his hopes of becoming someone 
memorable, though he wasn't 

764
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:46,560
quite sure how to achieve that. 
Sparta produces warriors, he'd 

765
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:49,920
say, his voice thoughtful. 
But I don't think I want to be 

766
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:53,080
remembered for killing people. 
There has to be something else, 

767
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:55,800
doesn't there? 
Some other way to matter, some 

768
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:58,560
way to contribute that doesn't 
involve taking lives? 

769
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:01,680
These conversations touch 
something deep in Apollo. 

770
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:05,560
Here was someone who wanted to 
create rather than destroy, to 

771
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:10,280
build rather than tear down. 
In militaristic Sparta, such 

772
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:12,520
attitudes weren't exactly 
encouraged. 

773
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:16,360
The city's entire purpose was 
producing soldiers, and 

774
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:20,360
everything else was secondary. 
But Housi Yasin thus held these 

775
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:24,160
values nonetheless, privately 
questioning whether Sparta's 

776
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:28,520
single minded focus on warfare 
represented the best or only 

777
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:31,720
path to excellence. 
You could be a teacher, Apollo 

778
00:44:31,720 --> 00:44:33,600
suggested. 
Pass on your knowledge to the 

779
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:36,800
next generation, help others 
achieve their potential. 

780
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:39,640
Maybe. 
Eosin thus considered this, 

781
00:44:40,240 --> 00:44:43,000
though teachers aren't exactly 
celebrated in Sparta the way 

782
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,680
warriors are. 
Nobody builds monuments to 

783
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:48,760
coaches. 
They should, Apollo said firmly.

784
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:52,000
A good teacher shapes dozens or 
hundreds of lives. 

785
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:55,920
That's more impact than most 
warriors have, even famous ones.

786
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:59,040
A season shifted from late 
summer into early autumn. 

787
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:02,400
Their friendship deepened into 
something both of them treasured

788
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:06,280
above almost anything else. 
Apollo found himself looking 

789
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:09,560
forward to their time together 
with an anticipation he hadn't 

790
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:13,280
felt in centuries. 
The administrative duties of 

791
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:17,400
godhood, the prayers to answer 
the prophecies to deliver the 

792
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:21,600
sun chariot, to drive the 
Oracle, to oversee, the plagues 

793
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:25,400
to address, became things he had
to do before he could return to 

794
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:28,600
what he wanted to do, spend time
with his friend. 

795
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:31,960
He began rushing through his 
solar duties, driving the 

796
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:35,800
chariot faster than strictly 
necessary, taking shortcuts that

797
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:38,640
saved a few minutes. 
He delegated more 

798
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:42,160
responsibilities to subordinate 
deities and trusted priests. 

799
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:46,400
He simplified prophecies, giving
straightforward answers when he 

800
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:49,000
might previously have crafted 
elaborate riddles. 

801
00:45:49,720 --> 00:45:52,800
Also, he could maximize the time
available for training and 

802
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:55,840
talking with he as in. 
Thus, the other Olympians 

803
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:58,640
noticed Apollo's changed 
behaviour, but didn't comment 

804
00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:01,600
directly. 
Artemis gave him knowing looks, 

805
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:04,920
but said nothing. 
Hermes made a few jokes about 

806
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:08,400
Apollo being particularly 
cheerful lately, unusually eager

807
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:12,400
to finish his work. 
Athena observed the situation 

808
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:16,080
with her characteristic and 
analytical detachment, but kept 

809
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:20,880
her conclusions private. 
YE Sin thus, for his part, knew 

810
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:23,960
his companion was special, 
though he didn't realise quite 

811
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:26,200
how special. 
There was something uncanny 

812
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:28,880
about the older youth, the way 
he seemed to know things he 

813
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:31,880
shouldn't, like historical 
events he claimed to have 

814
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:34,680
witnessed, or medical knowledge 
that was supposed to be 

815
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:38,120
restricted to priests. 
The occasional slip when he'd 

816
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:41,080
mentioned events from centuries 
past as if he'd been personally 

817
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:44,000
present. 
The way animals seemed unusually

818
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:47,680
calm in his presence, birds 
landing nearby as if wanting to 

819
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:50,280
be close to him. 
The fact that he never got 

820
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:53,200
sunburned no matter how long 
they trained in direct light 

821
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:57,560
while everyone else needed shade
and oil for protection, but here

822
00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:00,760
soon thus didn't pry. 
Whatever secrets his friend 

823
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:03,960
held, they didn't diminish the 
genuine connection between them.

824
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:06,760
If Apollo wanted to tell him the
truth, he would. 

825
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:10,840
If not here, Sin thus was 
content to accept the mystery as

826
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:14,320
part of who his friend was. 
Other Spartans noticed the 

827
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:18,640
friendship, of course. 
Some felt envious of HWEU Sin 

828
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:22,280
Thus fortune in finding such an 
excellent mentor, someone who 

829
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:25,840
combined athletic skill with 
intellectual depth, which was 

830
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:30,080
rare in militaristic Sparta. 
Others felt suspicious of the 

831
00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:32,600
stranger who'd appeared from 
nowhere and claimed so much of 

832
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:34,360
their promising young athletes. 
Time. 

833
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:38,400
Where did he come from? 
What city did he represent? 

834
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:41,320
Why wasn't he training for 
warfare the way young men 

835
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:44,240
should? 
But no one interfered In a 

836
00:47:44,240 --> 00:47:47,000
culture that valued such 
mentorships as crucial for 

837
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,080
social development and military 
cohesion. 

838
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:51,040
There was no cause for 
complaint. 

839
00:47:51,720 --> 00:47:56,160
Apollo was clearly teaching H We
are sin, thus valuable skills. 

840
00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:59,440
The boy's athletic performance 
had improved noticeably. 

841
00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:03,440
His discus throws travelled 
farther, his javelin throws flew

842
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:06,000
straighter, and his wrestling 
technique had become 

843
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:09,480
sophisticated enough to defeat 
older, stronger opponents. 

844
00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:13,400
The two of them established 
routines and private jokes, the 

845
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:16,280
kind of shared language that 
develops between people who 

846
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:21,040
spend substantial time together.
If Apollo adjusted his cheat on 

847
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:24,760
a certain way, she's a sin thus 
knew they were about to do 

848
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:27,720
something physically demanding, 
and he should stretch thoroughly

849
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:31,640
when he has sin thus tilted his 
head at a particular angle while

850
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:34,360
listening. 
Apollo recognized it as a sign 

851
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:38,040
the boy was working through a 
complex idea, a needed patient 

852
00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:40,680
silence rather than additional 
explanation. 

853
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:43,840
They could communicate with 
glances across the gymnasium, 

854
00:48:44,240 --> 00:48:47,480
entire conversations happening 
in raised eyebrows and subtle 

855
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:50,720
smiles. 
When other athletes were being 

856
00:48:50,720 --> 00:48:54,760
particularly obtuse or pompous, 
Apollo would catch wheat ye us 

857
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:58,280
in thus eye, and they'd share a 
moment of silent amusement. 

858
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:01,760
When yeasin thus struggled with 
the technique and felt 

859
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:05,080
frustrated, Apollo's small nod 
conveyed confidence and 

860
00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:08,600
encouragement without words. 
For Apollo, this period was 

861
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:10,560
something close to mortal 
happiness. 

862
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:14,480
He still had his divine 
responsibilities, but they no 

863
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:16,880
longer consumed his entire 
existence. 

864
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:20,760
He had someone to share 
observations with, to teach 

865
00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:24,000
without the formal distance of 
worshippers at a temple, who 

866
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:27,320
prostrated themselves and spoke 
in reverential tones. 

867
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:31,680
He had a friend who made him 
laugh, who challenged his ideas 

868
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:35,640
in respectful ways, and who saw 
him as a person rather than an 

869
00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:40,800
icon to be feared or placated. 
For Hye Yusin, thus, the 

870
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:43,680
friendship provided intellectual
stimulation that Sparta's 

871
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:47,640
military culture couldn't offer.
He loved his city and respected 

872
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:51,400
it's values, discipline, 
courage, loyalty, physical 

873
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:54,000
excellence. 
But he'd always felt slightly 

874
00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:56,960
out of place. 
Too interested in questions that

875
00:49:56,960 --> 00:50:01,000
didn't have practical military 
applications, too fascinated by 

876
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:04,800
beauty and ideas for a society 
that valued functionality above 

877
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:08,000
aesthetics. 
With Apollo, he could explore 

878
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:11,520
those questions freely. 
He could wonder aloud about the 

879
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:15,000
nature of beauty or the purpose 
of existence without being 

880
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:17,400
dismissed as too philosophical 
for a warrior. 

881
00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:20,880
He could admit uncertainty 
without being labeled weak. 

882
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:24,040
He could be curious without 
being mocked for not already 

883
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:26,360
knowing everything. 
Neither of them thought about 

884
00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:28,920
endings. 
Gods don't typically worry about

885
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:31,480
mortality. 
They're too far removed from it 

886
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:35,280
to really grasp its urgency. 
And young people rarely 

887
00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:39,680
contemplate their own finite 
nature, convinced at some level 

888
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:43,200
that they're immortal, that 
death is something that happens 

889
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:48,200
to other people, older people, 
unlucky people, but never to 

890
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:50,400
them. 
They existed fully in their 

891
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:53,720
present moments, collecting 
memories neither of them 

892
00:50:53,720 --> 00:50:56,840
consciously recognise. 
They were collecting the warm 

893
00:50:56,840 --> 00:51:01,400
afternoons, the shared meals of 
bread and cheese and olives, the

894
00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:05,800
quiet conversations under stars,
the laughter when one of them 

895
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:09,440
said something ridiculous, the 
companionable silences that 

896
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:12,400
needed no filling. 
All of it felt permanent in the 

897
00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:14,720
way good things always feel 
permanent while you're 

898
00:51:14,720 --> 00:51:17,400
experiencing them. 
The future seemed to stretch out

899
00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:20,840
endlessly, full of more training
sessions and philosophical 

900
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:24,840
discussions and silly songs. 
There would always be tomorrow 

901
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:28,880
to continue their work, always 
next week to tackle new topics, 

902
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:32,040
always next season to refine 
techniques and deepen 

903
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:35,640
understanding. 
So they both assumed, with the 

904
00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:38,320
comfortable certainty of those 
who haven't yet learned, that 

905
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:41,440
the universe doesn't honour 
assumptions, that tomorrow is 

906
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:45,560
never guaranteed, and that the 
threads the fate spin can be cut

907
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:48,880
without warning or fairness. 
Autumn in ancient Greece was 

908
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:52,520
harvest season, when the work of
summer came to fruition and 

909
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:55,800
communities celebrated the 
year's bounty with festivals and

910
00:51:55,800 --> 00:51:58,720
feasts. 
The air carried that particular 

911
00:51:58,720 --> 00:52:02,240
crispness that makes every 
breath feel cleansing, and the 

912
00:52:02,240 --> 00:52:05,600
light took on a golden quality 
that made ordinary landscapes 

913
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:09,160
look touched by divine favour, 
which technically they were 

914
00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:12,800
whenever Apollo was nearby, his 
solar nature colouring 

915
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:15,520
everything around him with 
warmth and radiance. 

916
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:19,320
On one particularly beautiful 
afternoon, Apollo and H We Are 

917
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:22,680
Sin thus decided to practice 
discus throwing in a field 

918
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:25,720
outside the city. 
The location was perfect for 

919
00:52:25,720 --> 00:52:29,120
their purposes, flat and open 
with soft grass that would 

920
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:33,040
cushion any missed catches, but 
far enough from Sparta proper 

921
00:52:33,040 --> 00:52:36,440
that they could practice without
constant interruption from other

922
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:40,080
athletes wanting to join them or
spectators commenting on their 

923
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:42,760
technique. 
They'd chosen this spot before 

924
00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:45,640
and valued its privacy and its 
distance from the crowded 

925
00:52:45,640 --> 00:52:49,720
gymnasium where dozens of young 
men trained simultaneously in 

926
00:52:49,720 --> 00:52:53,160
limited space. 
Here they could talk freely 

927
00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:56,080
while training, could take 
breaks whenever they wanted 

928
00:52:56,080 --> 00:52:59,240
without feeling judged for 
resting, and could experiment 

929
00:52:59,240 --> 00:53:02,040
with new techniques without 
worrying about looking foolish 

930
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:05,280
if the experiments failed. 
The field stretched out in all 

931
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:08,600
directions, bordered by olive 
Groves that provided afternoon 

932
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:13,240
shade and occasional pervasi. 
Wildflowers dotted the grass, 

933
00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:16,800
small purple and yellow blooms 
that would become invisible in a

934
00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:20,080
few weeks when autumn deepened 
toward winter. 

935
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:24,160
The air smelled of dried grass 
and distant wood smoke from 

936
00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:27,280
cooking fires in farm houses 
scattered across the valley. 

937
00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:31,680
The session started Like many 
others, Apollo demonstrated 

938
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:36,440
techniques while HYERCN thus 
watched carefully, his eyes 

939
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:40,000
tracking every detail of stance 
and motion, and then attempted 

940
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:43,080
to replicate them. 
The boys form had improved 

941
00:53:43,080 --> 00:53:45,040
dramatically over their months 
together. 

942
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:48,840
Anyone watching would recognise 
A skilled athlete who'd received

943
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:52,160
excellent coaching. 
His rotation timing had gotten 

944
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:54,440
better, smoother and more 
controlled. 

945
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:58,400
His release had become cleaner, 
the discus leaving his hand at 

946
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:01,160
the optimal moment without 
hesitation or adjustment. 

947
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:05,680
His follow through was more 
complete, his body finishing 

948
00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:09,160
each throw in a balanced 
position rather than stumbling 

949
00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:11,280
or over rotating the way 
beginners did. 

950
00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:14,840
Apollo felt genuine pride 
watching the discus arc through 

951
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:19,080
the autumn air, flying farther 
than H EE S in Thus's previous 

952
00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:20,960
attempts. 
Excellent. 

953
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:23,080
He called out after one 
particularly good throw. 

954
00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:25,560
You're almost ready to compete 
in the games. 

955
00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:28,800
Another few months of practice 
and you'll be placing highly, 

956
00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:32,560
maybe even winning. 
She E us in thus retrieve the 

957
00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:36,120
discus, grinning with that 
particular satisfaction athletes

958
00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:38,400
feel when hard work visibly pays
off. 

959
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:43,080
Almost ready, He challenged, 
though his tone was playful 

960
00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:45,840
rather than offended. 
Are you suggesting I'm not 

961
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:49,240
already perfect? 
I'm suggesting you're remarkably

962
00:54:49,240 --> 00:54:51,640
close to perfect. 
Apollo corrected, matching a 

963
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:54,720
student's playful tone. 
Which coming from me, is a 

964
00:54:54,720 --> 00:54:57,800
significant compliment. 
I don't praise lightly. 

965
00:54:58,240 --> 00:55:00,800
Your humility is truly 
inspiring. 

966
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:04,240
He us in thus teased, walking 
back with the bronze disc 

967
00:55:04,240 --> 00:55:08,400
balanced on one hand. 
Tell me, do all gods have such 

968
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:11,880
modest opinions of themselves, 
or are you special? 

969
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:15,440
Oh, I'm definitely special, 
Apollo confirmed with 

970
00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:18,840
exaggerated seriousness. 
The other gods are absolutely 

971
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:22,360
unbearable in their arrogance. 
I, on the other hand, am 

972
00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:25,320
perfectly humble about my many 
exceptional qualities. 

973
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:29,000
They both laughed, falling back 
into that easy rapport they 

974
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:32,920
developed where teasing carried 
affection rather than criticism,

975
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:36,280
and where mock arrogance 
highlighted the absurdity of 

976
00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:39,400
actual arrogance. 
They traded the discus back and 

977
00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:42,560
forth, falling into that 
comfortable rhythm athletes know

978
00:55:42,560 --> 00:55:46,000
well, the Zen of repetitive 
motion, where each throw becomes

979
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:50,720
a meditation, each catch a small
victory, the body moving without

980
00:55:50,720 --> 00:55:53,920
conscious thought because muscle
memory has taken over from 

981
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:57,600
deliberate decision making. 
The afternoon sun warmed their 

982
00:55:57,600 --> 00:56:00,080
shoulders. 
Birds called to each other in 

983
00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:03,680
the nearby olive trees, their 
songs carrying across the still 

984
00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:05,840
air. 
The world felt safe, 

985
00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:10,000
predictable, and under control. 
Then came Apollo's turn to 

986
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:12,640
demonstrate an advanced 
technique he'd been saving for 

987
00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:16,400
when Hye a Sin thus had mastered
the basics. 

988
00:56:17,160 --> 00:56:20,320
This particular throw required 
exceptional timing and strength,

989
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:24,280
sending the discus on an almost 
impossibly long trajectory. 

990
00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:28,240
Apollo wanted to show what was 
possible at the highest levels 

991
00:56:28,240 --> 00:56:31,600
of skill, to give his students 
something to aspire toward. 

992
00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:36,400
A demonstration that excellence 
always had another level beyond 

993
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:39,640
where you currently stood. 
He planted his feet carefully 

994
00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:42,160
checking his stance one final 
time. 

995
00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:46,040
Began his rotation, feeling the 
familiar mechanics of the 

996
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:50,080
perfect throw engaging, weight 
shifting smoothly from front 

997
00:56:50,080 --> 00:56:54,280
foot to back, torso coiling like
a spring, arms extending. 

998
00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:58,120
At precisely the right moment, 
the discus left his hand at 

999
00:56:58,120 --> 00:57:01,920
exactly the optimal release 
point, spinning through the air 

1000
00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:05,320
with that satisfying hum that 
indicates proper rotation and 

1001
00:57:05,320 --> 00:57:08,440
velocity. 
It was a beautiful throw, one of

1002
00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:11,120
his better efforts even by 
divine standards. 

1003
00:57:11,720 --> 00:57:14,600
The kind of throw that would be 
remembered and discussed by 

1004
00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:17,760
anyone witnessing it. 
That would become a standard for

1005
00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:21,400
comparison. 
Remember when Apollo threw that 

1006
00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:24,320
discus in the field? 
That's the kind of distance you 

1007
00:57:24,320 --> 00:57:27,040
should be aiming for. 
The bronze disc flew in a 

1008
00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:30,880
perfect arc against the blue 
sky, sunlight catching on its 

1009
00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:35,160
spinning surface, making it 
flash like a small golden bird. 

1010
00:57:35,560 --> 00:57:38,680
But something happened that 
Apollo, with all his powers of 

1011
00:57:38,680 --> 00:57:42,760
prophecy, didn't foresee. 
A gust of wind, sudden and 

1012
00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:44,960
powerful, caught the discus mid 
flight. 

1013
00:57:45,520 --> 00:57:49,280
Some accounts later said it was 
sent by Zephyrus, the jealous 

1014
00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:53,040
West wind God who also loved his
were yes in thus and resented 

1015
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:55,160
Apollo's closer relationship 
with the boy. 

1016
00:57:55,840 --> 00:57:59,120
Other versions claimed it was 
just terrible luck, random 

1017
00:57:59,120 --> 00:58:02,680
chance, or the universe 
demonstrating its fundamental 

1018
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:04,640
indifference to desires and 
prayers. 

1019
00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:06,920
Whatever the cause, the wind 
changed. 

1020
00:58:06,920 --> 00:58:09,240
The disk uses trajectory 
unpredictably. 

1021
00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:13,680
The bronze disc, heavy and sharp
edged, altered course in mid 

1022
00:58:13,680 --> 00:58:18,280
air, arching back toward where 
Ryasin thus stood rather than 

1023
00:58:18,280 --> 00:58:20,880
continuing its expected path 
away from him. 

1024
00:58:21,360 --> 00:58:28,360
Shuai ER Sien thus running to 
position himself for what he 

1025
00:58:28,360 --> 00:58:29,840
thought would be the landing 
zone. 

1026
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:32,080
He didn't see the trajectory 
change. 

1027
00:58:32,680 --> 00:58:35,120
He was looking where the discus 
should have been based on its 

1028
00:58:35,120 --> 00:58:37,600
initial path, not where it 
actually was. 

1029
00:58:37,600 --> 00:58:41,200
After the wind's intervention, 
his eyes tracked the expected 

1030
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:43,400
arc. 
His feet carried him toward the 

1031
00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:47,040
anticipated landing spot, and 
his hands prepared to catch a 

1032
00:58:47,040 --> 00:58:49,440
throw that was no longer coming 
in that direction. 

1033
00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:52,840
Everything slowed down in that 
terrible way moments do when you

1034
00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:55,960
recognize disaster unfolding but
can't prevent it. 

1035
00:58:57,040 --> 00:59:00,840
Apollo shouted a warning, his 
voice carrying divine power that

1036
00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:03,880
should have reached Hearson thus
instantly, and should have 

1037
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:08,320
penetrated any distraction. 
But sound travels slower than 

1038
00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:11,880
bronze, and the distance between
them, which had seemed safely 

1039
00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:15,560
far for practice, suddenly 
became impossibly far for 

1040
00:59:15,560 --> 00:59:18,080
intervention. 
Apollo reached out as if he 

1041
00:59:18,080 --> 00:59:21,880
could somehow catch the discus 
from 20 yards away, as if his 

1042
00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:26,080
divine power could reverse time 
or redirect solid matter already

1043
00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:29,520
in flight, as if Will alone 
could undo what physics and 

1044
00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:34,080
momentum had already determined.
His divine senses track the 

1045
00:59:34,080 --> 00:59:38,480
discus's new path with perfect 
accuracy, saw exactly where it 

1046
00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:42,680
would strike, knew exactly what 
would happen, and had absolutely

1047
00:59:42,680 --> 00:59:47,920
no power to prevent any of it. 
The discus struck IEEE Asin thus

1048
00:59:47,920 --> 00:59:50,600
on the forehead with a sound 
Apollo would hear in his 

1049
00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:55,720
nightmares for centuries 
afterward, a dull, wet thud that

1050
00:59:55,720 --> 00:59:59,920
seemed impossibly loud in the 
suddenly quiet afternoon, a 

1051
00:59:59,920 --> 01:00:04,320
sound that contained finality, 
that marked a boundary between 

1052
01:00:04,320 --> 01:00:07,240
before and after, between whole 
and broken. 

1053
01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:10,960
The boy crumpled immediately, 
his strong athletes body 

1054
01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:14,880
suddenly as limp as an unstrung 
puppet, muscles that have been 

1055
01:00:14,880 --> 01:00:18,520
so reliably coordinated and 
controlled failing all at once. 

1056
01:00:19,080 --> 01:00:21,360
He was unconscious before he hit
the ground. 

1057
01:00:21,760 --> 01:00:25,160
His mind already shutting down 
from the catastrophic trauma, 

1058
01:00:25,600 --> 01:00:29,040
his brain attempting to protect 
itself by turning off awareness.

1059
01:00:29,320 --> 01:00:32,560
Apollo was there in an instant, 
his divine speed finally 

1060
01:00:32,560 --> 01:00:34,800
activating now that it was too 
late to matter. 

1061
01:00:35,600 --> 01:00:38,640
He caught hay, a sin Thus, 
before the boy fully hit the 

1062
01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:41,920
ground, cradling him with a 
gentleness that belied his 

1063
01:00:41,920 --> 01:00:45,360
panic, his hands supporting the 
injured head carefully even 

1064
01:00:45,360 --> 01:00:47,400
though he already knew with 
horrible certainty that 

1065
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:51,280
gentleness couldn't help now. 
Blood flowed from the wound on 

1066
01:00:51,720 --> 01:00:56,520
Hye Asin Thus's forehead, so 
much blood, more than seemed 

1067
01:00:56,520 --> 01:01:00,920
possible from a single injury. 
It spread across the boy's face,

1068
01:01:01,360 --> 01:01:05,080
dripped onto Apollo's hands, and
stained the grass beneath them 

1069
01:01:05,080 --> 01:01:08,200
with a darkness that seemed to 
swallow the afternoon's golden 

1070
01:01:08,200 --> 01:01:11,600
light. 
The smell of it, copper and 

1071
01:01:11,600 --> 01:01:17,480
salt, filled Apollo's awareness.
No, no, no, Apollo heard himself

1072
01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:20,920
saying the word, a mantra 
against the unacceptable reality

1073
01:01:20,920 --> 01:01:24,480
unfolding before him, as if 
saying it enough times could 

1074
01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:27,840
reverse what had happened. 
His voice carried the authority 

1075
01:01:27,840 --> 01:01:30,360
of a God who'd commanded 
mountains and rivers and 

1076
01:01:30,360 --> 01:01:32,840
plagues. 
But none of that power meant 

1077
01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:36,320
anything here. 
Cindy. 

1078
01:01:36,320 --> 01:01:41,280
Thus, his eyes opened briefly, 
unfocused and confused, pupils 

1079
01:01:41,280 --> 01:01:45,280
different sizes, a sign Apollo 
knew indicated severe brain 

1080
01:01:45,280 --> 01:01:48,400
trauma. 
The boy tried to speak, but 

1081
01:01:48,400 --> 01:01:51,560
managed only a weak sound, more 
breath than word. 

1082
01:01:52,200 --> 01:01:55,240
His hand moved slightly, as if 
reaching for something, then 

1083
01:01:55,240 --> 01:01:58,680
went still, falling back to his 
side with terrible finality. 

1084
01:01:59,040 --> 01:02:02,720
Apollo, God of healing, knew 
exactly what was happening and 

1085
01:02:02,720 --> 01:02:06,200
how little time remained. 
Head wounds like this were 

1086
01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:10,400
catastrophic, often fatal, even 
with immediate divine 

1087
01:02:10,400 --> 01:02:14,800
intervention. 
The human brain, so remarkably 

1088
01:02:14,800 --> 01:02:19,680
complex and sophisticated, was 
also incredibly fragile. 

1089
01:02:20,320 --> 01:02:23,640
Damage to its structures meant 
immediate loss of function, and 

1090
01:02:23,640 --> 01:02:26,880
those functions included 
breathing, heartbeat, and 

1091
01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:28,840
everything that kept the body 
alive. 

1092
01:02:29,320 --> 01:02:32,440
Blood loss was severe, but that 
wasn't even the main problem. 

1093
01:02:33,040 --> 01:02:36,760
The impact had caused swelling, 
crushing delicate tissue against

1094
01:02:36,760 --> 01:02:40,360
the skull's interior. 
Structures that controlled basic

1095
01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:43,840
life functions were being 
compressed, damaged, and 

1096
01:02:43,840 --> 01:02:46,600
destroyed. 
The bleeding inside the skull 

1097
01:02:46,600 --> 01:02:49,320
would continue building 
pressure, shutting down the 

1098
01:02:49,320 --> 01:02:52,760
brain's ability to signal the 
heart to beat and the lungs to 

1099
01:02:52,760 --> 01:02:55,640
breathe. 
He tried anyway, because what 

1100
01:02:55,640 --> 01:02:58,680
else could he do? 
His hands glowed with divine 

1101
01:02:58,680 --> 01:03:01,800
healing energy as he pressed 
them against the wound, willing 

1102
01:03:01,800 --> 01:03:05,440
the flesh to knit, the bleeding 
to stop, and the damage to 

1103
01:03:05,440 --> 01:03:08,440
reverse. 
His power poured into Haya 

1104
01:03:08,440 --> 01:03:12,440
Sindas's body, searching for 
injuries to repair, breaks to 

1105
01:03:12,440 --> 01:03:16,240
mend, and infections to cure. 
But there are limits even to 

1106
01:03:16,240 --> 01:03:19,800
divine healing, particularly 
when the patient is mortal and 

1107
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:23,640
the injury is this severe. 
Apollo could heal sickness, cure

1108
01:03:23,640 --> 01:03:27,120
disease, knit broken bones, 
close wounds, and fight 

1109
01:03:27,120 --> 01:03:30,880
infections, but he couldn't 
fundamentally restructure a 

1110
01:03:30,880 --> 01:03:34,440
destroyed brain, couldn't 
rebuild tissue that had been 

1111
01:03:34,440 --> 01:03:38,080
crushed beyond recognition, and 
couldn't make dead neurons live 

1112
01:03:38,080 --> 01:03:40,720
again. 
That would require changing a 

1113
01:03:40,720 --> 01:03:45,520
mortal into something else 
entirely, transforming their 

1114
01:03:45,520 --> 01:03:49,520
fundamental nature, and such 
transformations required 

1115
01:03:49,520 --> 01:03:51,840
Olympian approval. 
He didn't have time to seek, 

1116
01:03:52,280 --> 01:03:55,960
even if he'd had hours to beg 
Zeus for permission to argue his

1117
01:03:55,960 --> 01:03:59,480
case before the assembled gods 
to accept whatever price they 

1118
01:03:59,480 --> 01:04:04,120
demanded, He didn't have hours. 
He had minutes at most, maybe 

1119
01:04:04,120 --> 01:04:07,880
less, and travelling to Olympus 
and back would take too long, 

1120
01:04:08,080 --> 01:04:11,440
even at divine speeds. 
By the time he returned with 

1121
01:04:11,440 --> 01:04:14,520
permission to transform Yasin 
thus into something immortal, 

1122
01:04:14,760 --> 01:04:22,040
the boy would be beyond saving. 
Shwa EA sin thus. 

1123
01:04:22,040 --> 01:04:25,520
His breathing grew shallow, each
breath weaker than the last. 

1124
01:04:26,120 --> 01:04:28,840
His chest barely moved with the 
effort of pulling in air. 

1125
01:04:29,440 --> 01:04:32,040
His heartbeat, which Apollo 
could hear with his divine 

1126
01:04:32,040 --> 01:04:36,360
senses, stuttered and slowed, 
struggling to maintain it's 

1127
01:04:36,360 --> 01:04:39,040
rhythm against the damage 
disrupting it's signals. 

1128
01:04:39,520 --> 01:04:42,760
The boy's hand, which had fallen
to his side, twitched once more 

1129
01:04:42,760 --> 01:04:46,480
in a final reflex, then relaxed 
with a finality Apollo 

1130
01:04:46,480 --> 01:04:49,120
recognised immediately. 
Please. 

1131
01:04:49,280 --> 01:04:52,200
Apollo whispered, though he 
wasn't sure who he was pleading 

1132
01:04:52,200 --> 01:04:53,880
with. 
Zeus. 

1133
01:04:54,360 --> 01:04:58,360
The Fates who spun and measured 
and cut the threads of mortal 

1134
01:04:58,360 --> 01:05:02,680
lives, the universe itself, vast
and indifferent. 

1135
01:05:03,680 --> 01:05:09,480
Please, not this, not him. 
He was going to matter, going to

1136
01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:11,560
do something beautiful with his 
life. 

1137
01:05:12,040 --> 01:05:15,440
Please don't take him now. 
Not like this, not from a stupid

1138
01:05:15,440 --> 01:05:19,880
accident that meant nothing. 
But the universe, as Apollo knew

1139
01:05:19,880 --> 01:05:21,800
better than most, doesn't 
negotiate. 

1140
01:05:22,320 --> 01:05:25,520
It doesn't care about potential 
or intentions or the prayers of 

1141
01:05:25,520 --> 01:05:28,320
gods. 
Death comes when it comes, 

1142
01:05:28,640 --> 01:05:32,320
Indifferent to who's praying for
more time, immune to bargaining 

1143
01:05:32,320 --> 01:05:36,160
or begging. 
Shui Sin thus took one more 

1144
01:05:36,160 --> 01:05:40,080
breath, so shallow it barely 
moved his chest, and then 

1145
01:05:40,080 --> 01:05:42,920
stopped. 
His eyes, which had been 

1146
01:05:42,920 --> 01:05:46,920
tracking Apollo's face with 
fading awareness, became fixed 

1147
01:05:46,920 --> 01:05:50,040
and distant, looking at 
something beyond the God's 

1148
01:05:50,040 --> 01:05:55,280
ability to see, beyond any 
ability to follow the spark that

1149
01:05:55,280 --> 01:06:01,600
had made him chi Hui sin, thus 
curious and kind and full of 

1150
01:06:01,600 --> 01:06:06,280
potential, simply extinguished, 
leaving behind just a body that 

1151
01:06:06,280 --> 01:06:08,120
had once housed someone 
remarkable. 

1152
01:06:08,480 --> 01:06:11,680
Apollo sat in the blood stained 
grass, holding his friend's 

1153
01:06:11,680 --> 01:06:15,200
body, and felt something he'd 
never fully experienced before. 

1154
01:06:15,600 --> 01:06:20,000
Absolute helplessness. 
He who drove the sun across the 

1155
01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:23,080
sky daily, who delivered 
prophecies that shaped the 

1156
01:06:23,080 --> 01:06:26,960
course of nations, who healed 
plagues and composed music that 

1157
01:06:26,960 --> 01:06:30,800
could charm stones, couldn't do 
the one thing that mattered. 

1158
01:06:31,440 --> 01:06:33,400
He couldn't bring back someone 
who died. 

1159
01:06:33,760 --> 01:06:38,480
All his divine power accumulated
over millennia, refined through 

1160
01:06:38,480 --> 01:06:42,920
endless practice, respected and 
feared across the Mediterranean.

1161
01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:47,160
None of it meant anything here. 
He was as helpless as any mortal

1162
01:06:47,160 --> 01:06:50,560
watching a loved one die, as 
powerless as the humans who 

1163
01:06:50,560 --> 01:06:53,000
prayed to him for miracles he 
couldn't deliver. 

1164
01:06:53,360 --> 01:06:55,920
The afternoon continued around 
him, indifferent. 

1165
01:06:55,920 --> 01:06:58,720
Tragedy. 
Birds still sang in the olive 

1166
01:06:58,720 --> 01:07:02,480
trees, their songs as cheerful 
as they've been moments before. 

1167
01:07:03,400 --> 01:07:07,160
The wind still rustled through 
grass, making gentle, soothing 

1168
01:07:07,160 --> 01:07:10,840
sounds that mock the violence it
had just participated in. 

1169
01:07:11,360 --> 01:07:14,960
The sun, Apollo's own 
responsibility, the task he'd 

1170
01:07:14,960 --> 01:07:18,400
been managing for longer than 
human civilization had existed, 

1171
01:07:19,000 --> 01:07:21,040
continued its arc toward 
evening. 

1172
01:07:21,440 --> 01:07:24,600
Uncaring that the God who 
usually drove it was paralysed 

1173
01:07:24,600 --> 01:07:27,040
with grief. 
He lost track of time. 

1174
01:07:27,400 --> 01:07:29,200
Minutes or hours might have 
passed. 

1175
01:07:29,520 --> 01:07:32,720
Divine perception didn't operate
normally when grief overwhelmed 

1176
01:07:32,720 --> 01:07:35,560
it. 
The sky moved from afternoon 

1177
01:07:35,560 --> 01:07:39,360
gold to evening amber to 
twilight purple, and still 

1178
01:07:39,360 --> 01:07:44,120
Apollo SAT holding sheer sin, 
thus unable to process the 

1179
01:07:44,120 --> 01:07:47,760
absolute wrongness of what had 
happened, unable to accept that 

1180
01:07:47,760 --> 01:07:50,240
the universe could be this 
arbitrary and cruel. 

1181
01:07:50,600 --> 01:07:54,680
This wasn't supposed to happen. 
Not to Hoyus Sindas, who'd had 

1182
01:07:54,680 --> 01:07:58,480
so much potential, so much life 
left to live, so many 

1183
01:07:58,480 --> 01:08:02,640
contributions left to make. 
Not from such a stupid accident,

1184
01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:06,520
a gust of wind at the wrong 
moment, or a discus thrown in 

1185
01:08:06,520 --> 01:08:10,360
play rather than anger. 
Not while Apollo himself stood 

1186
01:08:10,360 --> 01:08:12,520
watching, powerless to prevent 
it. 

1187
01:08:12,520 --> 01:08:14,560
Despite all his divine 
abilities. 

1188
01:08:15,000 --> 01:08:18,120
The God of prophecy, who could 
see fragments of the future, 

1189
01:08:18,520 --> 01:08:21,240
replayed the afternoon 
obsessively in his mind, 

1190
01:08:21,640 --> 01:08:24,640
identifying the exact moment 
when prevention became 

1191
01:08:24,640 --> 01:08:27,200
impossible. 
If he'd thrown the discus 

1192
01:08:27,200 --> 01:08:31,439
slightly differently, angled it 
lower or higher, released it a 

1193
01:08:31,439 --> 01:08:34,720
fraction earlier or later. 
If they'd practice somewhere 

1194
01:08:34,720 --> 01:08:37,920
else, in a different field or 
back at the gymnasium where 

1195
01:08:37,920 --> 01:08:40,319
walls would have blocked the 
wind origin. 

1196
01:08:40,640 --> 01:08:43,080
If it really was Zephyrus 
interfering. 

1197
01:08:43,359 --> 01:08:48,880
If, if, if 1000 alternate 
timelines where Hussin thus 

1198
01:08:48,880 --> 01:08:52,760
didn't die, each one mocking 
Apollo with its inaccessibility 

1199
01:08:53,080 --> 01:08:55,960
as full darkness fell and stars 
emerged. 

1200
01:08:56,439 --> 01:08:59,240
Stars Apollo had taught we are 
sin thus to name. 

1201
01:08:59,240 --> 01:09:01,720
During their evening 
conversations, pointing out 

1202
01:09:01,720 --> 01:09:05,600
which were planets and which 
were distant Suns, the God 

1203
01:09:05,600 --> 01:09:08,080
finally accepted what he 
couldn't change. 

1204
01:09:08,800 --> 01:09:12,080
Where sin thus was gone. 
No prayer would return him. 

1205
01:09:12,520 --> 01:09:15,040
No divine intervention would 
undo this death. 

1206
01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:19,000
The Fates had cut his thread, 
and they never rewound what 

1207
01:09:19,000 --> 01:09:21,680
they'd cut. 
But Apollo, as he sat in the 

1208
01:09:21,680 --> 01:09:25,080
dark holding his friend's 
cooling body, realised something

1209
01:09:25,080 --> 01:09:27,520
else. 
He might not be able to reverse 

1210
01:09:27,520 --> 01:09:29,800
death, but he could do 
something. 

1211
01:09:30,439 --> 01:09:35,160
He could ensure that Hyr Sin 
thus wasn't forgotten, that his 

1212
01:09:35,160 --> 01:09:38,600
beauty and kindness and 
curiosity didn't just vanish as 

1213
01:09:38,600 --> 01:09:42,080
if they'd never existed. 
He could make sure the boy's 

1214
01:09:42,080 --> 01:09:45,920
brief life mattered, that his 
existence created ripples that 

1215
01:09:45,920 --> 01:09:48,720
would continue forward through 
time even though he couldn't. 

1216
01:09:49,080 --> 01:09:51,520
It wasn't enough, Nothing would 
be enough. 

1217
01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:55,680
But it was something in a 
universe that offered no second 

1218
01:09:55,680 --> 01:09:59,600
chances, no do overs, and no 
reversals of death. 

1219
01:10:00,160 --> 01:10:03,920
Creating permanent beauty from 
temporary tragedy was the best 

1220
01:10:03,920 --> 01:10:07,760
Apollo could manage. 
Apollo, still holding HYES in 

1221
01:10:07,760 --> 01:10:10,480
Thus's body as darkness 
completed its conquest of the 

1222
01:10:10,480 --> 01:10:14,920
sky, felt the familiar tingle of
divine power stirring within 

1223
01:10:14,920 --> 01:10:17,320
him. 
Not healing energy this time, 

1224
01:10:17,560 --> 01:10:20,240
which had proven useless, but 
something different. 

1225
01:10:20,920 --> 01:10:24,160
Transformation magic. 
The kind of power that had 

1226
01:10:24,160 --> 01:10:27,120
turned Daphne into a Laurel tree
when she'd fled from him. 

1227
01:10:27,680 --> 01:10:31,520
That had changed Callisto into a
bear that had converted dozens 

1228
01:10:31,520 --> 01:10:34,640
of mortals throughout Greek 
mythology into animals, plants, 

1229
01:10:34,640 --> 01:10:37,840
or constellations. 
This particular type of magic 

1230
01:10:37,840 --> 01:10:42,160
was ancient and powerful, 
requiring significant divine 

1231
01:10:42,160 --> 01:10:44,640
energy. 
It wasn't something gods did 

1232
01:10:44,640 --> 01:10:47,880
casually or frequently, because 
it reshaped reality at a 

1233
01:10:47,880 --> 01:10:51,400
fundamental level, changing the 
very essence of what something 

1234
01:10:51,400 --> 01:10:55,080
was. 
But Apollo had the power, had 

1235
01:10:55,080 --> 01:10:59,000
always had it, and now had the 
desperate need to use it. 

1236
01:10:59,440 --> 01:11:01,880
He couldn't bring Hayas in thus 
back to life. 

1237
01:11:02,360 --> 01:11:05,560
That was beyond even his 
considerable abilities and would

1238
01:11:05,560 --> 01:11:09,160
require cooperation from Hades 
and Persephone who ruled the 

1239
01:11:09,160 --> 01:11:13,360
underworld, plus approval from 
Zeus, plus convincing the Fates 

1240
01:11:13,360 --> 01:11:15,400
to re weave a thread they'd 
already cut. 

1241
01:11:16,040 --> 01:11:19,120
The bureaucratic obstacles alone
would take weeks, even if 

1242
01:11:19,120 --> 01:11:22,800
everyone agreed immediately, 
which they wouldn't, and by then

1243
01:11:22,800 --> 01:11:25,720
any soul would have drunk from 
the River Lethi and forgotten 

1244
01:11:25,720 --> 01:11:28,800
its mortal life entirely. 
But he could ensure the boy's 

1245
01:11:28,800 --> 01:11:32,320
essence continued in some form, 
that some fragment of his 

1246
01:11:32,320 --> 01:11:36,120
existence persisted in the 
world, that he, us in thus's 

1247
01:11:36,120 --> 01:11:39,280
name and memory would endure 
beyond the lifespan of anyone 

1248
01:11:39,280 --> 01:11:42,280
who'd personally known him. 
Apollo looked at the blood on 

1249
01:11:42,280 --> 01:11:45,720
the grass, dark in the 
Starlight, nearly black except 

1250
01:11:45,720 --> 01:11:48,440
where his own divine radiance 
made it shimmer slightly. 

1251
01:11:49,080 --> 01:11:54,040
Drops had fallen where Hoi Asin 
thus died, staining the earth 

1252
01:11:54,040 --> 01:11:56,720
where they'd spent so many 
afternoons training and 

1253
01:11:56,720 --> 01:11:59,320
laughing. 
The soil had drunk the blood 

1254
01:11:59,320 --> 01:12:02,520
eagerly, as soil does, absorbing
it into itself. 

1255
01:12:02,880 --> 01:12:06,240
The God reached down and touched
that blood soaked earth, and as 

1256
01:12:06,240 --> 01:12:09,800
he did, he poured his grief and 
love and memories into the 

1257
01:12:09,800 --> 01:12:13,360
ground itself. 
His power flowed through his 

1258
01:12:13,360 --> 01:12:17,280
hands into the soil, carrying 
with it everything he felt. 

1259
01:12:17,800 --> 01:12:22,120
The joy of their friendship, the
pain of the loss, the desperate 

1260
01:12:22,120 --> 01:12:25,520
wish that things could have been
different, and the determination

1261
01:12:25,520 --> 01:12:27,880
that he has sinned thus would 
not be forgotten. 

1262
01:12:28,280 --> 01:12:32,480
The transformation began slowly.
At first nothing seemed to 

1263
01:12:32,480 --> 01:12:35,080
happen. 
Then, with the peculiar speed 

1264
01:12:35,080 --> 01:12:39,160
that divine magic operates at, 
faster than natural growth but 

1265
01:12:39,160 --> 01:12:43,040
slower than instant 
materialisation, something began

1266
01:12:43,040 --> 01:12:45,400
emerging from the blood stained 
ground. 

1267
01:12:45,760 --> 01:12:49,800
A chute pushed through the soil,
pale green in the darkness, so 

1268
01:12:49,800 --> 01:12:52,200
thin it looked like it might 
break under its own weight. 

1269
01:12:53,040 --> 01:12:56,360
But it didn't break. 
Instead it grew rapidly, 

1270
01:12:56,720 --> 01:13:00,400
extending upward with that 
reaching quality all new plants 

1271
01:13:00,400 --> 01:13:05,120
have, seeking light even in the 
middle of the night, responding 

1272
01:13:05,120 --> 01:13:08,600
to some internal imperative that
drives growth regardless of 

1273
01:13:08,600 --> 01:13:11,840
circumstance. 
Apollo watched, barely 

1274
01:13:11,840 --> 01:13:14,720
breathing, as the chute 
thickened and strengthened. 

1275
01:13:15,440 --> 01:13:19,600
Leaves unfurled, long and 
slender like blades, catching 

1276
01:13:19,600 --> 01:13:23,360
Starlight on their surfaces and 
holding it so they seem to glow 

1277
01:13:23,360 --> 01:13:26,440
faintly. 
The plant rose higher, 

1278
01:13:26,840 --> 01:13:29,840
developing a central stalk that 
would support flowers, 

1279
01:13:30,160 --> 01:13:33,360
organizing itself according to 
the pattern Apollo's power had 

1280
01:13:33,360 --> 01:13:36,800
encoded into its essence. 
And then, at the top of the 

1281
01:13:36,800 --> 01:13:42,040
stem, a bud formed, small at 
first, barely visible, but 

1282
01:13:42,040 --> 01:13:45,360
swelling rapidly as Apollo's 
power continued flowing into the

1283
01:13:45,360 --> 01:13:48,680
transformation. 
The bud grew fat and tight, 

1284
01:13:49,080 --> 01:13:53,200
containing compressed potential,
the promise of beauty waiting to

1285
01:13:53,200 --> 01:13:55,760
unfold. 
Apollo continued channelling 

1286
01:13:55,760 --> 01:13:58,960
power into the plant, shaping 
its nature and determining its 

1287
01:13:58,960 --> 01:14:02,360
characteristics. 
He wanted it to be beautiful but

1288
01:14:02,360 --> 01:14:06,040
melancholy, striking but touched
with sadness. 

1289
01:14:06,760 --> 01:14:09,880
He wanted anyone who saw it to 
sense there was a story behind 

1290
01:14:09,880 --> 01:14:13,400
it, that this wasn't just any 
flower, but a memorial, a living

1291
01:14:13,400 --> 01:14:16,840
monument to loss. 
The bud swelled larger, it's 

1292
01:14:16,840 --> 01:14:19,560
surface showing hints of the 
colour contained within. 

1293
01:14:19,960 --> 01:14:22,720
Deep purple, nearly black in the
darkness. 

1294
01:14:23,280 --> 01:14:27,920
Then slowly, it began to open. 
Petals emerged, unfurling, like 

1295
01:14:27,920 --> 01:14:31,080
hands opening, revealing their 
inner surfaces. 

1296
01:14:31,680 --> 01:14:35,360
The flower that bloomed was 
unlike anything that had existed

1297
01:14:35,360 --> 01:14:39,440
before, Beautiful in a way that 
made your chest ache, it's 

1298
01:14:39,440 --> 01:14:43,920
colour holding shadows within 
shadows, darkness that suggested

1299
01:14:43,920 --> 01:14:48,360
depth rather than emptiness. 
The petals were velvety, the 

1300
01:14:48,360 --> 01:14:52,600
texture rich and complex. 
The flower shape was elegant but

1301
01:14:52,600 --> 01:14:57,600
not ostentatious, beautiful but 
not showy, the kind of beauty 

1302
01:14:57,600 --> 01:15:00,680
that revealed itself gradually 
rather than demanding immediate 

1303
01:15:00,680 --> 01:15:04,320
attention. 
It's fragrance which began 

1304
01:15:04,320 --> 01:15:05,680
spreading. 
Through the night air. 

1305
01:15:05,680 --> 01:15:09,320
Carried A sweetness tinged with 
something sorrowful, like a 

1306
01:15:09,320 --> 01:15:12,880
melody played in a minor key. 
But Apollo wasn't finished. 

1307
01:15:13,440 --> 01:15:17,480
The flower alone wasn't enough, 
not distinctive enough and not 

1308
01:15:17,480 --> 01:15:20,800
clearly connected enough to hide
us in the specifically. 

1309
01:15:21,720 --> 01:15:25,400
He needed something more, some 
way to mark this as specifically

1310
01:15:25,400 --> 01:15:28,640
commemorating the boy, not just 
any tragic death. 

1311
01:15:29,120 --> 01:15:32,000
He leaned close to the newly 
bloomed flower and whispered a 

1312
01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:35,040
blessing into its petals, or 
perhaps a curse. 

1313
01:15:35,400 --> 01:15:38,440
With divine magic, the line 
between the two frequently 

1314
01:15:38,440 --> 01:15:42,000
blurs. 
As he spoke, his breath carrying

1315
01:15:42,000 --> 01:15:45,000
power and intention. 
Markings appeared on the inner 

1316
01:15:45,000 --> 01:15:48,640
surfaces of the petals. 
Dark lines formed shapes, 

1317
01:15:49,120 --> 01:15:52,240
patterns that could be read 
multiple ways depending on who 

1318
01:15:52,240 --> 01:15:54,800
was looking. 
Some people would later claim 

1319
01:15:54,800 --> 01:16:00,600
these markings spelled out AIAI,
the Greek exclamation of grief, 

1320
01:16:01,040 --> 01:16:04,200
the cry someone makes when 
confronting unbearable loss. 

1321
01:16:04,960 --> 01:16:09,640
Others insisted the marks formed
the letter Epsilon, which was 

1322
01:16:09,640 --> 01:16:12,760
the 1st letter of Hawaii, 
Sindus's name in Greek. 

1323
01:16:13,640 --> 01:16:17,160
Still others saw them as 
abstract patterns, grief made 

1324
01:16:17,160 --> 01:16:21,000
visual without specific 
linguistic content, and sorrow 

1325
01:16:21,000 --> 01:16:23,720
expressed through form rather 
than words. 

1326
01:16:24,040 --> 01:16:26,480
What matters is that the 
markings were there, 

1327
01:16:26,760 --> 01:16:30,360
unmistakable, turning this 
flower into something more than 

1328
01:16:30,360 --> 01:16:33,600
just a plant. 
They made it a memorial, a 

1329
01:16:33,600 --> 01:16:35,680
permanent reminder of what had 
been lost. 

1330
01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:39,760
A way of saying someone died 
here, someone who mattered. 

1331
01:16:40,120 --> 01:16:43,400
More shoots emerge from the 
blood soaked earth as Apollo 

1332
01:16:43,400 --> 01:16:46,200
continued pouring power into the
transformation. 

1333
01:16:46,720 --> 01:16:51,880
A dozen shoots, then dozens, 
then hundreds, spreading across 

1334
01:16:51,880 --> 01:16:54,400
the field where Hichiosin thus 
had fallen. 

1335
01:16:55,160 --> 01:16:58,160
The entire area where they'd 
practiced began transforming 

1336
01:16:58,160 --> 01:17:01,760
into a carpet of purple flowers,
all of them carrying those same 

1337
01:17:01,760 --> 01:17:05,200
melancholy markings on their 
petals, all of them connected to

1338
01:17:05,200 --> 01:17:07,640
the same source. 
The boy's blood. 

1339
01:17:07,920 --> 01:17:11,040
Apollo's grief. 
The moment when a beautiful life

1340
01:17:11,040 --> 01:17:15,320
ended too soon. 
Apollo stood, finally releasing 

1341
01:17:15,320 --> 01:17:18,800
Ki Yusin Nas's body. 
It would need proper handling 

1342
01:17:18,800 --> 01:17:22,440
soon, proper funeral rites, as 
befitted a Spartan youth of good

1343
01:17:22,440 --> 01:17:25,760
family, But that could wait 
until morning, when he'd have to

1344
01:17:25,760 --> 01:17:28,760
explain what happened, have to 
face the boy's father and tell 

1345
01:17:28,760 --> 01:17:31,480
him his son was dead, and have 
to watch them prepare the body 

1346
01:17:31,480 --> 01:17:34,800
for burial. 
For now, the God walked through 

1347
01:17:34,800 --> 01:17:38,560
the field of newly created 
flowers, each bloom a small 

1348
01:17:38,560 --> 01:17:41,600
monument to his friend. 
The transformation served 

1349
01:17:41,600 --> 01:17:45,480
multiple purposes, as the best 
divine magic always does. 

1350
01:17:46,160 --> 01:17:52,320
Yes, it memorialised Hye, a sin,
thus ensuring his name would be 

1351
01:17:52,320 --> 01:17:54,800
remembered wherever these 
flowers grew, which would 

1352
01:17:54,800 --> 01:17:57,520
eventually be throughout the 
Mediterranean and beyond. 

1353
01:17:58,400 --> 01:18:02,120
But it also gave Apollo's grief 
somewhere to go, channelling his

1354
01:18:02,120 --> 01:18:04,840
pain into creation rather than 
destruction. 

1355
01:18:05,240 --> 01:18:08,040
He could have chosen 
destruction, could have blasted 

1356
01:18:08,040 --> 01:18:11,640
the field into scorched earth, 
could have struck down Zephyrus 

1357
01:18:11,640 --> 01:18:15,040
if the Wind God really was 
responsible, could have raged 

1358
01:18:15,040 --> 01:18:17,720
and threatened and made the 
whole world suffer because he 

1359
01:18:17,720 --> 01:18:21,000
was suffering. 
Gods had done that before, had 

1360
01:18:21,000 --> 01:18:24,240
made mortals pay for divine 
grief with plagues and droughts 

1361
01:18:24,240 --> 01:18:28,040
and disasters, but that wouldn't
honour High us in Thus's memory.

1362
01:18:28,600 --> 01:18:31,280
The boy had been kind, had 
valued creation over 

1363
01:18:31,280 --> 01:18:34,560
destruction, and had wanted to 
matter in ways that helped 

1364
01:18:34,560 --> 01:18:38,160
rather than hurt. 
So Apollo chose to create rather

1365
01:18:38,160 --> 01:18:41,920
than destroy, to add beauty to 
the world rather than subtract 

1366
01:18:41,920 --> 01:18:44,720
from it. 
The transformation also provided

1367
01:18:44,720 --> 01:18:48,280
a kind of comfort, knowing that 
every spring, when these flowers

1368
01:18:48,280 --> 01:18:51,880
bloomed, they would carry 
forward some essence of hayar 

1369
01:18:51,960 --> 01:18:55,880
asin, thus not his consciousness
or personality. 

1370
01:18:56,200 --> 01:18:58,520
The dead don't linger in the 
plants that grow from their 

1371
01:18:58,520 --> 01:19:02,880
graves, but something 
nonetheless, a reminder that 

1372
01:19:02,880 --> 01:19:06,920
he'd existed, that he'd been 
loved, that his brief life had 

1373
01:19:06,920 --> 01:19:09,280
mattered enough to change 
reality itself. 

1374
01:19:09,680 --> 01:19:13,320
Apollo remained in that field 
until dawn, watching his son 

1375
01:19:13,320 --> 01:19:16,200
Chariot begin its journey across
the sky without him for the 

1376
01:19:16,200 --> 01:19:19,880
first time in ages. 
He trusted his horses would 

1377
01:19:19,880 --> 01:19:23,120
manage one day on their own. 
They were well trained and knew 

1378
01:19:23,120 --> 01:19:26,920
the route perfectly. 
Right now he needed to stay 

1379
01:19:26,920 --> 01:19:30,200
here, with these flowers, with 
this memorial to his friend. 

1380
01:19:30,560 --> 01:19:33,200
As morning light touched the 
purple petals, they seemed to 

1381
01:19:33,200 --> 01:19:36,880
glow slightly, catching and 
holding the sun's rays in a way 

1382
01:19:36,880 --> 01:19:39,080
that made them look internally 
illuminated. 

1383
01:19:39,960 --> 01:19:43,800
Apollo found himself speaking 
aloud, knowing how we are sin, 

1384
01:19:43,800 --> 01:19:47,840
thus couldn't hear, but needing 
to say the words anyway, needing

1385
01:19:47,840 --> 01:19:49,960
to articulate the promise he was
making. 

1386
01:19:50,320 --> 01:19:53,680
You wanted to be remembered, He 
said quietly, his voice rough 

1387
01:19:53,680 --> 01:19:57,240
from crying during the night. 
You wanted to matter, to leave 

1388
01:19:57,240 --> 01:20:00,240
something behind that would 
outlast your brief time alive. 

1389
01:20:00,720 --> 01:20:03,160
You will. 
Every spring these flowers will 

1390
01:20:03,160 --> 01:20:05,480
bloom. 
Every garden that plants them 

1391
01:20:05,480 --> 01:20:09,400
will carry your name forward. 
Every person who stops to admire

1392
01:20:09,400 --> 01:20:12,800
their beauty will be in some 
small way honouring you. 

1393
01:20:13,360 --> 01:20:15,760
Your name will become synonymous
with this flower. 

1394
01:20:16,480 --> 01:20:19,480
People thousands of years from 
now will say Hyacinth and be 

1395
01:20:19,480 --> 01:20:22,000
speaking your name without even 
realising it. 

1396
01:20:22,440 --> 01:20:26,040
It wasn't enough. 
No memorial would be enough, no 

1397
01:20:26,040 --> 01:20:29,560
flower beautiful enough to 
compensate for the loss, and no 

1398
01:20:29,560 --> 01:20:32,480
promise adequate to the scale of
what had been stolen. 

1399
01:20:33,240 --> 01:20:35,600
But it was something. 
Something permanent. 

1400
01:20:36,040 --> 01:20:38,520
Something that would outlast 
Apollo's own grief. 

1401
01:20:38,880 --> 01:20:42,520
Something that would carry Hyr 
Sindhas's name forward into 

1402
01:20:42,520 --> 01:20:44,320
futures neither of them would 
see. 

1403
01:20:44,680 --> 01:20:47,360
The God of healing who couldn't 
heal the one person he most 

1404
01:20:47,360 --> 01:20:51,480
wanted to save had at least 
managed this, ensuring that Jaya

1405
01:20:51,480 --> 01:20:53,480
Sindhas's death wouldn't be 
meaningless. 

1406
01:20:53,920 --> 01:20:56,960
That the boy's existence would 
ripple forward through time in 

1407
01:20:56,960 --> 01:21:00,520
purple petals and sweet 
fragrance, A memorial that would

1408
01:21:00,520 --> 01:21:04,320
regenerate itself annually, that
would spread and adapt and 

1409
01:21:04,320 --> 01:21:07,680
survive for as long as humans 
planted gardens and valued 

1410
01:21:07,680 --> 01:21:10,040
beauty. 
As the sun rose higher and 

1411
01:21:10,040 --> 01:21:12,880
morning brought the necessity of
dealing with practical matters. 

1412
01:21:13,360 --> 01:21:15,880
The body, the explanation, the 
funeral. 

1413
01:21:16,200 --> 01:21:19,720
Apollo touched one of the 
flowers gently, his finger 

1414
01:21:19,720 --> 01:21:22,320
tracing the dark markings on its
petals. 

1415
01:21:23,280 --> 01:21:26,200
Thank you, he whispered, though 
he wasn't sure if he was 

1416
01:21:26,200 --> 01:21:29,560
speaking to the flower. 
To he send thus his spirit 

1417
01:21:29,560 --> 01:21:32,760
wherever it had gone, or to the 
universe that had at least 

1418
01:21:32,760 --> 01:21:36,120
allowed him this much. 
Thank you for the time we had. 

1419
01:21:36,560 --> 01:21:38,760
Thank you for teaching me what 
friendship could be. 

1420
01:21:39,280 --> 01:21:42,480
Thank you for reminding me that 
brief and meaningful is better 

1421
01:21:42,480 --> 01:21:45,520
than eternal and empty. 
Then he turned away from the 

1422
01:21:45,520 --> 01:21:48,440
field of flowers and walked back
towards Sparta to face the 

1423
01:21:48,440 --> 01:21:52,640
necessary conversations, 
carrying his grief like a weight

1424
01:21:52,640 --> 01:21:56,040
that would never fully lift, 
knowing that a part of him would

1425
01:21:56,040 --> 01:22:00,280
remain in that field forever, 
kneeling in blood soaked grass, 

1426
01:22:00,720 --> 01:22:04,440
holding someone who couldn't be 
saved, wishing desperately that 

1427
01:22:04,440 --> 01:22:07,920
divine power was enough. 
As days passed and Apollo's 

1428
01:22:07,920 --> 01:22:11,480
initial shock faded into 
persistent grief, the kind that 

1429
01:22:11,480 --> 01:22:14,800
doesn't overwhelm every moment 
but colours every experience 

1430
01:22:15,120 --> 01:22:19,640
that turns joy slightly grey and
makes beauty carry undertones of

1431
01:22:19,640 --> 01:22:23,440
sadness, he realised the 
hyacinth flower alone wasn't 

1432
01:22:23,440 --> 01:22:26,280
sufficient. 
Yes, the flowers would bloom 

1433
01:22:26,280 --> 01:22:29,840
annually, would spread through 
gardens across the Mediterranean

1434
01:22:29,840 --> 01:22:33,120
as people cultivated them for 
their beauty, and would carry 

1435
01:22:33,120 --> 01:22:36,280
here, Sindas's name forward 
through generations. 

1436
01:22:36,880 --> 01:22:41,720
But flowers bloom and fade, 
Their season ends after a few 

1437
01:22:41,720 --> 01:22:44,480
weeks, and then they're gone 
until next year. 

1438
01:22:44,800 --> 01:22:47,880
Apollo wanted something more 
permanent, something that would 

1439
01:22:47,880 --> 01:22:52,280
last literally forever, visible 
every clear night rather than 

1440
01:22:52,280 --> 01:22:55,120
just during spring. 
Something that couldn't be 

1441
01:22:55,120 --> 01:22:58,440
destroyed by drought or 
trampling, that didn't depend on

1442
01:22:58,440 --> 01:23:00,800
humans remembering to plant and 
tend it. 

1443
01:23:01,160 --> 01:23:03,160
So he looked upward, to the 
stars. 

1444
01:23:03,480 --> 01:23:06,800
The constellations had always 
fascinated H we us in. 

1445
01:23:06,800 --> 01:23:10,200
Thus, during their evening 
conversations, the boy would lie

1446
01:23:10,200 --> 01:23:13,520
on his back in the grass, arms 
behind his head, tracing 

1447
01:23:13,520 --> 01:23:17,560
patterns in the night sky with 
his eyes, asking Apollo to tell 

1448
01:23:17,560 --> 01:23:20,480
him the stories behind each 
grouping of stars. 

1449
01:23:21,160 --> 01:23:24,600
He'd wanted to know who Orion 
had been, why Perseus was 

1450
01:23:24,600 --> 01:23:27,920
chasing Andromeda across the 
heavens, and how the bears had 

1451
01:23:27,920 --> 01:23:30,480
ended up circling the Pole star 
for eternity. 

1452
01:23:30,760 --> 01:23:34,000
Now Apollo decided to add 
another story to that celestial 

1453
01:23:34,000 --> 01:23:37,720
collection, to write Hetias 
Sindas's name not just in 

1454
01:23:37,720 --> 01:23:41,800
flowers, but in stars that would
shine long after humans forgot 

1455
01:23:41,800 --> 01:23:45,840
what Greece had been, after the 
gods themselves faded into myth.

1456
01:23:46,160 --> 01:23:49,680
Using power he rarely employed, 
the kind that required 

1457
01:23:49,680 --> 01:23:52,160
permission from Zeus. 
Because reshaping the heavens 

1458
01:23:52,160 --> 01:23:56,120
affected everyone, not just 
individual mortals, Apollo 

1459
01:23:56,120 --> 01:23:58,440
petitioned his father for the 
right to create a new 

1460
01:23:58,440 --> 01:24:03,840
constellation. 
He explained about Hye Sin thus,

1461
01:24:04,400 --> 01:24:07,800
about the friendship and the 
tragic death, and about his need

1462
01:24:07,800 --> 01:24:10,280
to memorialise someone who'd 
mattered to him. 

1463
01:24:10,560 --> 01:24:13,240
Zeus, surprisingly agreed 
without much argument. 

1464
01:24:13,880 --> 01:24:17,680
Perhaps he recognised genuine 
grief when he saw it, even 

1465
01:24:17,680 --> 01:24:20,440
though he'd never handled his 
own romantic disasters with 

1466
01:24:20,440 --> 01:24:24,440
anything resembling grace. 
Or perhaps he simply saw no harm

1467
01:24:24,440 --> 01:24:26,240
in allowing Apollo this 
memorial. 

1468
01:24:26,440 --> 01:24:28,640
It wouldn't affect the other 
constellations, wouldn't 

1469
01:24:28,640 --> 01:24:31,920
interfere with navigational 
seasons, and would just be one 

1470
01:24:31,920 --> 01:24:34,880
more story among dozens already 
written in stars. 

1471
01:24:35,240 --> 01:24:39,840
So Apollo gathered Starlight, 
actual Starlight energy, 

1472
01:24:39,840 --> 01:24:42,880
travelling through the void for 
years or centuries before 

1473
01:24:42,880 --> 01:24:45,120
reaching Earth and rearranged 
it. 

1474
01:24:45,840 --> 01:24:49,600
He reached into the cosmos with 
divine perception and moved 

1475
01:24:49,600 --> 01:24:54,200
stars, not physically relocating
them but changing how their 

1476
01:24:54,200 --> 01:24:57,600
light arranged itself from 
Earth's perspective, creating 

1477
01:24:57,600 --> 01:24:59,720
new patterns in the ancient 
darkness. 

1478
01:25:00,160 --> 01:25:02,880
The exact shape of the 
constellation varied depending 

1479
01:25:02,880 --> 01:25:04,520
on who was telling the story 
later. 

1480
01:25:05,120 --> 01:25:08,840
Some said it looked like a youth
with a discus, immortalising the

1481
01:25:08,840 --> 01:25:12,760
moment before tragedy struck. 
Others claimed it resembled the 

1482
01:25:12,760 --> 01:25:17,480
hyacinth flower itself, petals 
spreading across the night sky. 

1483
01:25:18,120 --> 01:25:21,880
Still others saw it as an 
abstract pattern, beautiful but 

1484
01:25:21,880 --> 01:25:25,440
indefinable, which seemed 
appropriate for memorialising 

1485
01:25:25,440 --> 01:25:28,920
someone whose greatest quality 
had been hard to put into words.

1486
01:25:29,240 --> 01:25:31,800
The specifics mattered less than
the permanence. 

1487
01:25:32,360 --> 01:25:35,480
Unlike the flowers that bloomed 
and faded, subject to weather 

1488
01:25:35,480 --> 01:25:38,720
and seasons and human 
cultivation, these stars would 

1489
01:25:38,720 --> 01:25:42,320
shine for millennia. 
They'd outlast civilizations, 

1490
01:25:42,320 --> 01:25:45,160
and they would still be visible 
when the Greek language was dead

1491
01:25:45,480 --> 01:25:48,480
and Apollo himself was reduced 
to stories told around 

1492
01:25:48,480 --> 01:25:51,840
campfires. 
As long as the universe existed,

1493
01:25:52,280 --> 01:25:55,640
these stars would mark where 
Rhea Sin thus had been, what 

1494
01:25:55,640 --> 01:25:58,720
he'd meant, and how much his 
brief life had mattered. 

1495
01:25:59,080 --> 01:26:01,960
But Apollo's grief did something
else too, something less 

1496
01:26:01,960 --> 01:26:04,960
intentional and more a side 
effect of divine emotion 

1497
01:26:05,360 --> 01:26:08,320
affecting the natural world in 
ways that God didn't fully 

1498
01:26:08,320 --> 01:26:11,520
control. 
The flowers he'd created from 

1499
01:26:11,520 --> 01:26:14,680
Shia Sindas's blood didn't just 
bloom randomly throughout the 

1500
01:26:14,680 --> 01:26:17,680
year. 
Instead, they became tied to the

1501
01:26:17,680 --> 01:26:21,640
seasons themselves, emerging 
specifically in early spring 

1502
01:26:21,640 --> 01:26:25,920
like a yearly resurrection, a 
promise that winter always ended

1503
01:26:25,920 --> 01:26:29,160
and beauty always returned. 
This wasn't entirely 

1504
01:26:29,160 --> 01:26:32,160
unprecedented. 
Greek mythology is full of 

1505
01:26:32,160 --> 01:26:36,520
stories where divine emotion 
shapes natural cycles, Demeter's

1506
01:26:36,520 --> 01:26:41,000
grief over losing Persephone 
creating winter, Helios's anger 

1507
01:26:41,000 --> 01:26:44,120
at Thyathon's recklessness 
scorching parts of the earth, 

1508
01:26:44,480 --> 01:26:48,360
and Poseidon's moods generating 
storms that destroyed shipping. 

1509
01:26:48,960 --> 01:26:51,840
Apollo's loss similarly 
imprinted itself on nature's 

1510
01:26:51,840 --> 01:26:55,280
calendar, his grief becoming 
part of the world's annual 

1511
01:26:55,280 --> 01:26:58,160
rhythm. 
Every spring, as winter's grip 

1512
01:26:58,160 --> 01:27:02,040
released and warmth returned to 
the Mediterranean, hyacinth 

1513
01:27:02,040 --> 01:27:03,800
flowers would emerge from the 
earth. 

1514
01:27:04,880 --> 01:27:07,280
They'd push through soil that 
had been frozen. 

1515
01:27:07,280 --> 01:27:10,160
Or merely cold. 
Would unfurl leaves and produce 

1516
01:27:10,160 --> 01:27:13,600
buds and would bloom in those 
characteristic deep purple 

1517
01:27:13,600 --> 01:27:17,480
shades, their markings visible 
to anyone who looked closely. 

1518
01:27:18,560 --> 01:27:21,320
Their blooming became a kind of 
annual promise. 

1519
01:27:22,000 --> 01:27:25,680
Beauty could return after 
darkness, colour could emerge 

1520
01:27:25,680 --> 01:27:28,960
from dormancy, and life could 
push through soil towards 

1521
01:27:28,960 --> 01:27:31,880
sunlight. 
Loss, while permanent, didn't 

1522
01:27:31,880 --> 01:27:34,760
have to be the final word. 
Greek communities began 

1523
01:27:34,760 --> 01:27:38,440
incorporating this natural cycle
into their cultural observances.

1524
01:27:39,160 --> 01:27:43,720
A festival developed in Sparta 
specifically honouring Hye a 

1525
01:27:43,720 --> 01:27:48,400
Sindhus memory, with athletic 
competitions, discus throwing 

1526
01:27:48,400 --> 01:27:52,720
naturally, but also running, 
wrestling and music contests. 

1527
01:27:53,600 --> 01:27:56,240
These weren't sombre morning 
ceremonies full of black 

1528
01:27:56,240 --> 01:27:59,600
clothing and tears, but 
celebrations of the qualities 

1529
01:27:59,600 --> 01:28:05,480
hefi, or sin Thus had embodied 
athletic excellence, curiosity, 

1530
01:28:05,760 --> 01:28:09,320
kindness, joy and learning and 
competition. 

1531
01:28:09,640 --> 01:28:13,680
The festival, called the 
Hyakinthia, lasted 3 days and 

1532
01:28:13,680 --> 01:28:16,520
became one of Sparta's most 
important annual events. 

1533
01:28:17,120 --> 01:28:20,800
The first day involved mourning 
and remembrance, acknowledging 

1534
01:28:20,800 --> 01:28:25,320
the tragedy of the boy's death, 
but the second and third days 

1535
01:28:25,320 --> 01:28:30,120
were celebratory, with contests 
and feasting and music honouring

1536
01:28:30,120 --> 01:28:33,120
the life rather than dwelling 
exclusively on the death. 

1537
01:28:34,040 --> 01:28:38,000
It was exactly the kind of 
memorial which, if EA sin thus 

1538
01:28:38,000 --> 01:28:43,080
would have wanted, not morose, 
but life affirming, not focused 

1539
01:28:43,080 --> 01:28:45,360
on the end, but on everything 
that came before it. 

1540
01:28:45,720 --> 01:28:48,840
Apollo would sometimes attend 
these festivals in disguise, 

1541
01:28:49,280 --> 01:28:52,320
appearing as an ordinary visitor
from another city rather than 

1542
01:28:52,320 --> 01:28:56,280
revealing his divine nature. 
He'd watch mortals compete in 

1543
01:28:56,280 --> 01:29:00,800
the discus throw, critiquing 
their forms, silently noting how

1544
01:29:00,800 --> 01:29:02,760
techniques had evolved over the 
years. 

1545
01:29:03,400 --> 01:29:06,520
He'd listened to musicians 
perform, hear poets recite 

1546
01:29:06,520 --> 01:29:10,560
verses about higher sin, thus an
Apollo's friendship, and observe

1547
01:29:10,560 --> 01:29:14,000
how the story was told and 
retold with small variations. 

1548
01:29:14,360 --> 01:29:16,840
These visits provided cold 
comfort. 

1549
01:29:16,880 --> 01:29:19,960
He could truly compensate for a 
tria sin thus's absence. 

1550
01:29:20,320 --> 01:29:23,280
No festival could fill the hole 
his death had created. 

1551
01:29:24,040 --> 01:29:27,600
But they helped nonetheless. 
Knowing that others remembered, 

1552
01:29:28,200 --> 01:29:30,600
that the boy's name hadn't 
vanished into history's 

1553
01:29:30,600 --> 01:29:35,520
anonymous masses, that his story
continued being told, all of it 

1554
01:29:35,520 --> 01:29:38,960
gave Apollo's grief some 
structure, some meaning beyond 

1555
01:29:38,960 --> 01:29:41,560
pure loss. 
The God also changed his own 

1556
01:29:41,560 --> 01:29:44,680
behaviour in subtle ways that 
persisted across centuries. 

1557
01:29:45,400 --> 01:29:48,840
He became a patron to young 
athletes, offering particular 

1558
01:29:48,840 --> 01:29:51,200
favour to those who showed 
promise in track and field 

1559
01:29:51,200 --> 01:29:53,920
events, especially discus 
throwing. 

1560
01:29:55,080 --> 01:29:58,240
When prayers reached him from 
competitors asking for victory, 

1561
01:29:58,560 --> 01:29:59,360
he'd. 
Pay Special. 

1562
01:29:59,360 --> 01:30:02,840
Attention to those whose 
technique reminded him of Chui 

1563
01:30:02,920 --> 01:30:06,480
sin, thus, whose dedication to 
improvement matched what he'd 

1564
01:30:06,480 --> 01:30:09,480
seen in his friend. 
He encouraged poetry and music 

1565
01:30:09,480 --> 01:30:12,520
that emphasized beauty and 
friendship rather than warfare 

1566
01:30:12,520 --> 01:30:16,120
and conquest. 
When he judged competitions or 

1567
01:30:16,120 --> 01:30:20,160
inspired artists, he favoured 
works that celebrated life's 

1568
01:30:20,160 --> 01:30:23,040
gentler aspects over those 
glorifying violence. 

1569
01:30:23,640 --> 01:30:27,280
He promoted healing and medicine
with renewed dedication, as if 

1570
01:30:27,280 --> 01:30:32,000
he could retroactively save Hy 
Sindhus by saving thousands of 

1571
01:30:32,000 --> 01:30:35,200
others, as if each healed 
patient somehow balanced the 

1572
01:30:35,200 --> 01:30:37,280
scale of the one he'd failed to 
save. 

1573
01:30:37,720 --> 01:30:40,880
He was gentler with mortals 
generally more patient with 

1574
01:30:40,880 --> 01:30:43,680
their flaws and limitations, 
having learnt through 

1575
01:30:43,680 --> 01:30:46,920
devastating experience how 
fragile their lives were. 

1576
01:30:48,040 --> 01:30:52,360
Before Hauz al Yasin, thus 
death, Apollo had sometimes been

1577
01:30:52,360 --> 01:30:55,400
impatient with mortal 
foolishness, quick to punish 

1578
01:30:55,400 --> 01:30:59,000
mistakes, and harsh with those 
who failed to properly honour 

1579
01:30:59,000 --> 01:31:02,120
him. 
Afterward, he found himself more

1580
01:31:02,120 --> 01:31:04,920
forgiving, more willing to. 
Overlook Minor. 

1581
01:31:04,920 --> 01:31:08,600
Offences and more, aware that 
mortal lives were already hard 

1582
01:31:08,600 --> 01:31:11,320
enough without divine 
retribution making them harder. 

1583
01:31:11,640 --> 01:31:14,560
Some of Apollo's fellow gods 
noticed these changes. 

1584
01:31:15,240 --> 01:31:18,360
Artemis, his twin sister, 
cornered him one evening on 

1585
01:31:18,360 --> 01:31:21,840
Olympus after a particularly 
quiet day where Apollo had 

1586
01:31:21,840 --> 01:31:25,200
barely spoken to anyone and had 
just gone through his duties 

1587
01:31:25,200 --> 01:31:28,200
mechanically before retreating 
to his own quarters. 

1588
01:31:28,560 --> 01:31:30,680
What happened? 
She asked directly because 

1589
01:31:30,680 --> 01:31:33,040
Artemis didn't believe in 
approaching difficult topics 

1590
01:31:33,040 --> 01:31:35,640
carefully. 
She preferred directness and 

1591
01:31:35,640 --> 01:31:38,760
appreciated honesty, even when 
it was painful. 

1592
01:31:39,120 --> 01:31:42,760
Apollo told her about each way a
sin, thus, about the friendship 

1593
01:31:42,760 --> 01:31:45,600
that had developed over months 
of training and conversation, 

1594
01:31:45,920 --> 01:31:48,880
about the terrible accident that
couldn't have been prevented, 

1595
01:31:49,200 --> 01:31:52,600
about the flower and the stars 
and the grief that wouldn't fade

1596
01:31:52,600 --> 01:31:55,840
no matter how much time passed. 
Artemis listened without 

1597
01:31:55,840 --> 01:31:58,440
interruption. 
One of her better qualities was 

1598
01:31:58,440 --> 01:32:01,920
knowing when to stay silent when
someone needed to talk without 

1599
01:32:01,920 --> 01:32:06,280
being questioned or advised. 
She understood loss herself, had

1600
01:32:06,280 --> 01:32:09,640
lost companions over the 
centuries, and knew how a single

1601
01:32:09,640 --> 01:32:13,040
death could create a hole that 
never fully closed, and how you 

1602
01:32:13,040 --> 01:32:16,200
learn to live around the absence
but never truly got over it. 

1603
01:32:16,560 --> 01:32:19,520
When Apollo finished speaking, 
Artemis was quiet for a moment, 

1604
01:32:19,520 --> 01:32:23,960
then said simply. 
I'm sorry, 2 words, but they 

1605
01:32:23,960 --> 01:32:26,520
helped. 
Apollo had worried his siblings 

1606
01:32:26,520 --> 01:32:29,240
would mock his grief over 
immortal, would see it as 

1607
01:32:29,240 --> 01:32:32,640
weakness or eccentricity, and 
would make jokes about him being

1608
01:32:32,640 --> 01:32:35,760
overly sentimental, but Artemis 
understood. 

1609
01:32:36,400 --> 01:32:39,800
She didn't diminish his pain by 
comparing it to anything else, 

1610
01:32:40,240 --> 01:32:42,840
and didn't try to fix it or 
offer hollow comfort. 

1611
01:32:43,440 --> 01:32:47,120
She just acknowledged it, which 
was exactly what he needed. 

1612
01:32:47,440 --> 01:32:50,960
As years turned to decades and 
decades to centuries, the 

1613
01:32:50,960 --> 01:32:54,200
hyacinths spread throughout the 
Mediterranean region and beyond.

1614
01:32:54,920 --> 01:32:58,400
Gardeners cultivated it, 
selecting for different colours 

1615
01:32:58,400 --> 01:33:02,200
and larger blooms, creating 
varieties that barely resemble 

1616
01:33:02,200 --> 01:33:04,760
the original wild plant Apollo 
had created. 

1617
01:33:05,480 --> 01:33:08,880
Poets wrote about it, 
associating its purple petals 

1618
01:33:08,880 --> 01:33:12,280
with remembrance and grief. 
Artists painted it, 

1619
01:33:12,680 --> 01:33:16,480
incorporating it into everything
from funeral urns to wedding 

1620
01:33:16,480 --> 01:33:20,480
frescoes, a flower comfortable 
with both joy and sorrow, 

1621
01:33:20,720 --> 01:33:23,120
appropriate for beginnings and 
endings alike. 

1622
01:33:23,480 --> 01:33:26,640
The constellation Apollo created
became part of the mythology 

1623
01:33:26,640 --> 01:33:30,240
that generations of Greek 
children learned one more story 

1624
01:33:30,240 --> 01:33:33,520
among dozens explaining why the 
night sky looked the way it did.

1625
01:33:34,120 --> 01:33:37,120
Sailors used it for navigation 
during certain seasons. 

1626
01:33:37,600 --> 01:33:41,080
Poets referenced it in verses 
about lost love and mourning. 

1627
01:33:41,760 --> 01:33:45,120
Philosophers used it as an 
example when discussing 

1628
01:33:45,120 --> 01:33:48,400
questions of immortality and 
memory. 

1629
01:33:49,200 --> 01:33:51,960
Did eternal remembrance 
constitute a form of 

1630
01:33:51,960 --> 01:33:55,760
immortality, or was it merely 
consolation for the living? 

1631
01:33:55,760 --> 01:33:59,000
Who couldn't bear to forget an 
Apollo himself? 

1632
01:33:59,480 --> 01:34:03,720
While he never stopped missing, 
Haisi Yusin thus found his grief

1633
01:34:03,720 --> 01:34:06,640
slowly transforming into 
something more bearable. 

1634
01:34:07,360 --> 01:34:11,000
The acute pain, the kind that 
made him wake up forgetting his 

1635
01:34:11,000 --> 01:34:14,480
friend was dead, then 
remembering and feeling the loss

1636
01:34:14,520 --> 01:34:18,400
all over again, gradually faded 
into a chronic ache. 

1637
01:34:19,000 --> 01:34:22,600
That ache eventually settled 
into melancholy acceptance, the 

1638
01:34:22,600 --> 01:34:25,720
kind of sadness that becomes 
part of who you are rather than 

1639
01:34:25,720 --> 01:34:27,600
something you're actively 
suffering through. 

1640
01:34:28,000 --> 01:34:31,320
He could think about to use she 
a sin thus without feeling like 

1641
01:34:31,320 --> 01:34:34,680
his chest was being crushed. 
He could tell stories about 

1642
01:34:34,680 --> 01:34:36,720
their time together without his 
voice breaking. 

1643
01:34:37,320 --> 01:34:39,960
He could see young athletes 
training and feel pleasure in 

1644
01:34:39,960 --> 01:34:45,360
their potential rather than only
sadness that hye a sin thus 

1645
01:34:45,360 --> 01:34:49,000
never got to fulfil his own. 
The memories became less painful

1646
01:34:49,000 --> 01:34:52,120
and more precious, something to 
be treasured rather than 

1647
01:34:52,120 --> 01:34:54,800
avoided. 
The Hyacinths annual blooming 

1648
01:34:54,800 --> 01:34:58,240
became Apollo's personal 
calendar, a way of marking time 

1649
01:34:58,240 --> 01:35:00,720
passing. 
Each spring, when the flowers 

1650
01:35:00,720 --> 01:35:03,720
emerged, he'd take a day away 
from his divine duties to visit 

1651
01:35:03,720 --> 01:35:08,080
Sparta, to stand in fields of 
purple blooms and remember. 

1652
01:35:08,680 --> 01:35:12,800
Sometimes he'd bring his lyre 
and play, composing melodies 

1653
01:35:12,800 --> 01:35:15,400
that carried both sadness and 
gratitude. 

1654
01:35:16,440 --> 01:35:20,480
Sometimes he'd simply stand in 
silence, letting the flowers, 

1655
01:35:20,480 --> 01:35:24,040
fragrance trigger memories, 
allowing himself to feel the 

1656
01:35:24,040 --> 01:35:27,920
full weight of what he'd lost. 
This yearly ritual provided 

1657
01:35:27,920 --> 01:35:31,240
structure to his grieving, a 
designated time and place for 

1658
01:35:31,240 --> 01:35:34,360
active mourning rather than 
constant, overwhelming sorrow. 

1659
01:35:35,400 --> 01:35:39,000
It allowed him to box his loss 
into manageable portions, one 

1660
01:35:39,000 --> 01:35:41,680
day per year of full 
remembrance, the rest of the 

1661
01:35:41,680 --> 01:35:44,520
year carrying the loss more 
quietly, more privately 

1662
01:35:44,840 --> 01:35:48,000
integrated into who he was, 
rather than consuming all his 

1663
01:35:48,000 --> 01:35:50,760
attention. 
The Greeks, observant about 

1664
01:35:50,760 --> 01:35:53,640
their God's behaviours even when
those gods tried to hide their 

1665
01:35:53,640 --> 01:35:57,240
feelings, incorporated this 
pattern into their own grieving 

1666
01:35:57,240 --> 01:36:00,520
practices. 
They learnt to allocate specific

1667
01:36:00,520 --> 01:36:05,040
times for mourning, festivals, 
anniversaries, designated days 

1668
01:36:05,040 --> 01:36:09,280
for visiting graves, rather than
expecting grief to be either 

1669
01:36:09,280 --> 01:36:12,600
constant and overwhelming or 
completely absent. 

1670
01:36:13,200 --> 01:36:17,240
Apollo's handling of Hye, as in 
Thus's death, it became a 

1671
01:36:17,240 --> 01:36:20,040
template for how mortals might 
survive losing someone they 

1672
01:36:20,040 --> 01:36:24,600
loved, acknowledge the loss, 
create memorials, establish 

1673
01:36:24,600 --> 01:36:27,840
rituals for remembrance, but 
also continue living. 

1674
01:36:28,200 --> 01:36:31,400
As centuries rolled past and 
ancient Greece transformed into 

1675
01:36:31,400 --> 01:36:35,200
distant history, it's cities 
conquered, it's language 

1676
01:36:35,200 --> 01:36:39,040
evolving beyond recognition, 
it's gods relegated to the 

1677
01:36:39,040 --> 01:36:43,360
status of myths rather than 
active deities, the story of 

1678
01:36:43,360 --> 01:36:46,000
Apollo and higher seen thus 
persisted. 

1679
01:36:46,480 --> 01:36:50,160
It survived the fall of Greek 
civilization, was adopted by the

1680
01:36:50,160 --> 01:36:53,520
Romans who called the God 
Phoebus but kept the flowers 

1681
01:36:53,520 --> 01:36:57,120
name, travelled through the 
medieval period in manuscripts 

1682
01:36:57,120 --> 01:36:59,960
copied by monks who found the 
stories, themes of loss and 

1683
01:36:59,960 --> 01:37:03,920
transformation resonant even 
within Christian contexts, and 

1684
01:37:03,920 --> 01:37:07,280
emerged into the modern era as 
one of classical mythology's 

1685
01:37:07,280 --> 01:37:10,560
more enduring tales. 
But stories change as they're 

1686
01:37:10,560 --> 01:37:14,560
retold, shaped by each culture's
values and concerns and each 

1687
01:37:14,560 --> 01:37:17,880
generation's particular 
anxieties and preoccupations. 

1688
01:37:18,600 --> 01:37:21,560
The relationship between Apollo 
and Hoya sin, thus, was 

1689
01:37:21,560 --> 01:37:25,440
variously interpreted as 
friendship, mentorship, romantic

1690
01:37:25,440 --> 01:37:29,040
love, or divine patronage, 
depending on who was telling the

1691
01:37:29,040 --> 01:37:31,040
story and what they needed it to
mean. 

1692
01:37:32,320 --> 01:37:35,080
Some versions emphasize the 
athletic training. 

1693
01:37:35,520 --> 01:37:38,320
Presenting the tale as. 
Primarily about sports and 

1694
01:37:38,320 --> 01:37:41,600
competition. 
Others focused on the emotional 

1695
01:37:41,600 --> 01:37:45,120
bond, exploring what it meant 
for a God to love a mortal. 

1696
01:37:45,600 --> 01:37:50,320
Still others concentrated on the
tragic accident itself, using it

1697
01:37:50,320 --> 01:37:53,640
to explore themes of fate and 
mortality and divine 

1698
01:37:53,640 --> 01:37:57,040
limitations. 
The tales flexibility, its 

1699
01:37:57,040 --> 01:38:00,120
ability to be read multiple ways
without any single 

1700
01:38:00,120 --> 01:38:03,520
interpretation being obviously 
wrong, helped ensure it's 

1701
01:38:03,520 --> 01:38:06,480
survival. 
Stories that can only mean one 

1702
01:38:06,480 --> 01:38:10,080
thing tend to die when cultures 
change and that particular 

1703
01:38:10,080 --> 01:38:13,960
meaning becomes irrelevant. 
But flexible stories adapt, 

1704
01:38:14,440 --> 01:38:18,360
finding new significance for new
audiences remaining alive. 

1705
01:38:18,360 --> 01:38:22,080
By transforming to meet each 
generation's needs, artists 

1706
01:38:22,080 --> 01:38:24,680
throughout history found 
themselves drawn to the story's 

1707
01:38:24,680 --> 01:38:29,240
emotional core. 
Ancient Greek pottery showed hye

1708
01:38:29,960 --> 01:38:35,760
sin, thus an Apollo together, 
discus in hand, captured in that

1709
01:38:35,760 --> 01:38:39,360
moment before tragedy, when 
everything still seemed safe and

1710
01:38:39,360 --> 01:38:42,280
predictable. 
Black figure and red figure 

1711
01:38:42,280 --> 01:38:46,920
vases depicted the youth's 
beauty, the God's grace, and the

1712
01:38:46,920 --> 01:38:50,000
athletic equipment that would 
become instruments of death. 

1713
01:38:50,440 --> 01:38:53,480
Renaissance painters depicted 
the death scene with dramatic 

1714
01:38:53,480 --> 01:38:57,600
flair, with Apollo cradling the 
dying youth while the fatal 

1715
01:38:57,600 --> 01:39:02,360
discus lay nearby, blood 
dramatically visible and grief 

1716
01:39:02,360 --> 01:39:06,040
theatrically rendered. 
These paintings emphasized the 

1717
01:39:06,040 --> 01:39:10,320
tragedy, the moment of loss, and
the God's helplessness in the 

1718
01:39:10,320 --> 01:39:14,760
face of mortality. 
They were exercises in pathos 

1719
01:39:15,200 --> 01:39:17,320
designed to evoke. 
Tears from viewers. 

1720
01:39:17,320 --> 01:39:21,240
Who recognized in Apollo 
situation their own experiences 

1721
01:39:21,240 --> 01:39:23,120
of losing people they couldn't 
save? 

1722
01:39:23,560 --> 01:39:27,680
Romantic era poets wrote lengthy
verses exploring the grief and 

1723
01:39:27,680 --> 01:39:31,600
transformation, finding in 
Apollo's actions a model for how

1724
01:39:31,600 --> 01:39:35,280
art could emerge from loss and 
how beauty could be created from

1725
01:39:35,280 --> 01:39:37,840
pain. 
They saw the flower as 

1726
01:39:37,840 --> 01:39:41,880
representing poetry itself, 
something beautiful grown from 

1727
01:39:41,880 --> 01:39:46,040
suffering, the transformation of
negative emotions into positive 

1728
01:39:46,040 --> 01:39:48,800
creations. 
Modern writers continued 

1729
01:39:48,800 --> 01:39:52,320
reimagining the tale, finding 
new angles and emphasis. 

1730
01:39:53,000 --> 01:39:55,680
Some focused on the 
relationships homoerotic 

1731
01:39:55,680 --> 01:40:00,080
aspects, reclaiming the story as
part of LGBTQ plus history. 

1732
01:40:00,760 --> 01:40:04,520
Others explored themes of divine
responsibility and the ethics of

1733
01:40:04,520 --> 01:40:06,760
gods involving themselves with 
mortals. 

1734
01:40:07,320 --> 01:40:10,320
Still others used it to examine 
broader questions about memory 

1735
01:40:10,320 --> 01:40:14,080
and legacy, about what it means 
to be remembered and whether 

1736
01:40:14,080 --> 01:40:16,480
that constitutes a form of 
immortality. 

1737
01:40:16,880 --> 01:40:19,840
The hyacinth flower itself 
became deeply embedded in 

1738
01:40:19,840 --> 01:40:21,920
European and Mediterranean 
gardens. 

1739
01:40:22,560 --> 01:40:26,040
Horticulturalists bred new 
varieties in dozens of colours. 

1740
01:40:26,440 --> 01:40:31,120
White, pink, yellow, blue, even 
true red, though the original 

1741
01:40:31,120 --> 01:40:33,760
deep purple remained most 
popular for those who knew the 

1742
01:40:33,760 --> 01:40:37,520
story, the Flowers strong 
fragrance made it a favorite for

1743
01:40:37,520 --> 01:40:41,080
perfumes and potpourri's, it's 
scent becoming instantly 

1744
01:40:41,080 --> 01:40:44,560
recognizable, triggering 
associations with spring and 

1745
01:40:44,560 --> 01:40:47,360
renewal. 
Its association with spring made

1746
01:40:47,360 --> 01:40:50,160
it a natural symbol of 
resurrection and regeneration, 

1747
01:40:50,640 --> 01:40:53,360
particularly in Christian 
context that borrowed and 

1748
01:40:53,360 --> 01:40:57,240
repurposed classical imagery. 
Easter celebrations often 

1749
01:40:57,240 --> 01:41:01,240
featured hyacinths, the flowers 
emergence from seemingly dead 

1750
01:41:01,240 --> 01:41:04,840
bulbs paralleling resurrection 
narratives, their timing 

1751
01:41:04,840 --> 01:41:07,240
coinciding conveniently with the
holiday. 

1752
01:41:07,560 --> 01:41:11,320
Interestingly, the flower modern
gardeners call hyacinth isn't 

1753
01:41:11,320 --> 01:41:13,760
technically the same plant 
ancient Greeks would have 

1754
01:41:13,760 --> 01:41:19,520
associated with He Wu asin. 
Thus, the original flower was 

1755
01:41:19,520 --> 01:41:23,520
likely either a type of iris or 
a martigan Lily, both of which 

1756
01:41:23,520 --> 01:41:26,360
grow wild in Greece and have 
markings on their etals that 

1757
01:41:26,360 --> 01:41:28,760
could be interpreted as letters 
or symbols. 

1758
01:41:29,520 --> 01:41:34,840
The modern hyacinth 
scientifically hye a seen thus 

1759
01:41:34,840 --> 01:41:38,920
Orientalis is native to the 
eastern Mediterranean and Asia 

1760
01:41:38,920 --> 01:41:42,880
Minor and was matched with the 
myth later, it's beauty and 

1761
01:41:42,880 --> 01:41:46,800
springtime blooming, making it a
natural fit for the story, even 

1762
01:41:46,800 --> 01:41:49,360
if it wasn't the original plant 
Apollo created. 

1763
01:41:49,720 --> 01:41:52,560
But this botanical confusion 
doesn't diminish the myths 

1764
01:41:52,560 --> 01:41:55,280
impact. 
The story's emotional truth 

1765
01:41:55,280 --> 01:41:57,760
transcends specific species of 
flowers. 

1766
01:41:58,360 --> 01:42:01,960
What matters is the core 
narrative, how love and loss can

1767
01:42:01,960 --> 01:42:05,720
create something lasting, how 
beauty can emerge from tragedy, 

1768
01:42:06,080 --> 01:42:09,680
and how remembrance serves as a 
kind of immortality, even if 

1769
01:42:09,680 --> 01:42:11,960
it's not the same as having the 
person alive. 

1770
01:42:12,360 --> 01:42:15,400
Psychologists and philosophers 
have explored the myths deeper 

1771
01:42:15,400 --> 01:42:19,040
meanings, finding in insights 
about human nature and the grief

1772
01:42:19,040 --> 01:42:22,040
process. 
Some see it as representing the 

1773
01:42:22,040 --> 01:42:25,560
inevitable loss of innocence, 
the transition from youth to 

1774
01:42:25,560 --> 01:42:29,320
adulthood marked by death's 
first real intrusion into 

1775
01:42:29,320 --> 01:42:32,160
consciousness. 
That moment when you realise 

1776
01:42:32,160 --> 01:42:35,760
mortality isn't just an abstract
concept but something that can 

1777
01:42:35,760 --> 01:42:39,720
strike without warning, taking 
people you care about, leaving 

1778
01:42:39,720 --> 01:42:43,280
you helpless and changed. 
Others interpret it as examining

1779
01:42:43,280 --> 01:42:46,560
the price of divine interaction 
with mortals, how the gap 

1780
01:42:46,560 --> 01:42:49,560
between immortal and mortal 
perspectives creates tragic 

1781
01:42:49,560 --> 01:42:52,280
misunderstandings and dangerous 
situations. 

1782
01:42:53,080 --> 01:42:56,680
Gods don't fully grasp 
mortality's urgency, don't 

1783
01:42:56,680 --> 01:42:59,960
understand fragility the way 
mortals do, and that 

1784
01:42:59,960 --> 01:43:02,640
incomprehension can have fatal 
consequences. 

1785
01:43:03,000 --> 01:43:06,120
Still others focus on the 
creative response to loss, 

1786
01:43:06,520 --> 01:43:10,200
analysing how grief can be 
channelled into art, memory, and

1787
01:43:10,200 --> 01:43:13,240
meaning rather than destructive 
rage or despair. 

1788
01:43:14,000 --> 01:43:17,320
Apollo's choice to create the 
flower rather than, say, 

1789
01:43:17,640 --> 01:43:21,200
destroying Sparta in revenge or 
punishing Zephyrus if he was 

1790
01:43:21,200 --> 01:43:25,120
actually responsible, represents
a particular kind of maturity, 

1791
01:43:25,560 --> 01:43:28,520
the recognition that adding 
suffering to suffering solves 

1792
01:43:28,520 --> 01:43:32,160
nothing, that the only 
constructive response to loss is

1793
01:43:32,160 --> 01:43:34,920
creation. 
The myth also raises questions 

1794
01:43:34,920 --> 01:43:37,000
about the nature of immortality 
itself. 

1795
01:43:37,720 --> 01:43:40,840
Just we sin thus gained a kind 
of eternal life through 

1796
01:43:40,840 --> 01:43:44,360
transformation, his name and 
memory preserved forever in 

1797
01:43:44,360 --> 01:43:49,560
flower and constellation. 
But is this true immortality or 

1798
01:43:49,560 --> 01:43:51,560
merely a consolation? 
Prize the. 

1799
01:43:51,560 --> 01:43:55,040
Second best option when actual 
resurrection proved impossible. 

1800
01:43:55,880 --> 01:43:58,640
Apollo certainly doesn't think 
it's equivalent to having his 

1801
01:43:58,640 --> 01:44:02,520
friend alive and whole, yet it's
something which makes it 

1802
01:44:02,520 --> 01:44:05,840
valuable in a universe where 
death usually means complete 

1803
01:44:05,840 --> 01:44:08,280
erasure. 
Religious scholars have noted 

1804
01:44:08,280 --> 01:44:12,440
parallels between Hye of sin, 
thus death and resurrection, and

1805
01:44:12,440 --> 01:44:15,600
later Christian themes of dying 
and rising gods. 

1806
01:44:16,200 --> 01:44:20,600
Spring festivals celebrating our
Yeh of Sin thus influenced later

1807
01:44:20,600 --> 01:44:24,360
Easter traditions, the timing 
and symbolism overlapping in 

1808
01:44:24,360 --> 01:44:27,760
ways that blur together when 
viewed from 2000 years distance.

1809
01:44:28,360 --> 01:44:31,280
The Hyacinths emergence from the
Earth mirrors resurrection 

1810
01:44:31,280 --> 01:44:35,000
narratives across multiple 
faiths, suggesting deep human 

1811
01:44:35,000 --> 01:44:38,880
needs to find hope and loss, 
continuity and change, and 

1812
01:44:38,880 --> 01:44:42,320
meaning in death. 
The constellation Apollo created

1813
01:44:42,320 --> 01:44:45,920
has largely faded from 
astronomical maps, either lost 

1814
01:44:45,920 --> 01:44:50,000
to time or subsumed into other 
stellar patterns recognized by 

1815
01:44:50,000 --> 01:44:53,000
different cultures. 
Modern astronomers don't 

1816
01:44:53,000 --> 01:44:57,160
officially recognise a he EA 
sin, thus constellation. 

1817
01:44:57,840 --> 01:45:00,640
The International Astronomical 
Union, which standardised 

1818
01:45:00,640 --> 01:45:04,120
constellation names in 1922, 
didn't include it in their 

1819
01:45:04,120 --> 01:45:06,680
official list. 
But this disappearance doesn't 

1820
01:45:06,680 --> 01:45:09,240
entirely erase Apollo's 
celestial memorial. 

1821
01:45:09,840 --> 01:45:13,400
It simply means we've forgotten 
where to look, which stars 

1822
01:45:13,400 --> 01:45:15,960
Apollo rearranged in honour of 
his friend. 

1823
01:45:16,600 --> 01:45:21,040
The stars are still there, still
shining, still arranged, however

1824
01:45:21,040 --> 01:45:24,440
the God placed them. 
We just no longer tell their 

1825
01:45:24,440 --> 01:45:29,640
story, no longer see the pattern
he created in a way that's 

1826
01:45:29,640 --> 01:45:32,320
appropriate. 
Even the most permanent 

1827
01:45:32,320 --> 01:45:35,720
memorials eventually fade from 
memory, which is why the 

1828
01:45:35,760 --> 01:45:39,120
annually regenerating flower has
proven more lasting than the 

1829
01:45:39,120 --> 01:45:42,120
eternal stars. 
What endures most strongly is 

1830
01:45:42,120 --> 01:45:44,520
the emotional resonance of the 
myth itself. 

1831
01:45:45,440 --> 01:45:48,720
Across cultures and centuries, 
people recognise the particular 

1832
01:45:48,720 --> 01:45:52,720
grief Apollo experienced, the 
helplessness of watching someone

1833
01:45:52,720 --> 01:45:56,840
die from an accident, the guilt 
of feeling responsible even when

1834
01:45:56,840 --> 01:46:00,440
rationally you know you aren't. 
The desperate wish to undo 

1835
01:46:00,440 --> 01:46:03,760
what's already happened, the 
rage at unfairness and 

1836
01:46:03,760 --> 01:46:07,360
randomness, and the eventual 
acceptance that some things 

1837
01:46:07,360 --> 01:46:10,440
can't be changed. 
These emotions transcend the 

1838
01:46:10,440 --> 01:46:13,920
specifics of discus throwing and
ancient Greek athletics. 

1839
01:46:14,520 --> 01:46:18,480
They speak to universal human 
experiences of loss, car 

1840
01:46:18,480 --> 01:46:22,600
accidents that happen in split 
seconds, terminal diagnosis that

1841
01:46:22,600 --> 01:46:25,680
come without warning, and 
violence that steals people in 

1842
01:46:25,680 --> 01:46:28,480
their prime. 
Every generation has its own 

1843
01:46:28,480 --> 01:46:32,240
versions of hye us in thus 
people who died before their 

1844
01:46:32,240 --> 01:46:35,960
potential was realized, whose 
deaths felt especially unfair 

1845
01:46:35,960 --> 01:46:37,880
because they had so much left to
give. 

1846
01:46:38,320 --> 01:46:41,000
The myth also captures something
important about friendship 

1847
01:46:41,000 --> 01:46:45,000
itself, particularly friendships
that cross typical boundaries. 

1848
01:46:46,040 --> 01:46:50,400
Apollo and Hazer spore EA sin 
thus bridge the gap between 

1849
01:46:50,400 --> 01:46:54,360
mortal and divine, young and 
experienced, and student and 

1850
01:46:54,360 --> 01:46:57,120
teacher. 
Their connection wasn't based on

1851
01:46:57,120 --> 01:47:01,360
a quality of power or status. 
They were fundamentally unequal 

1852
01:47:01,360 --> 01:47:06,000
in almost every measurable way, 
but it was based on genuine 

1853
01:47:06,000 --> 01:47:10,240
mutual regard, on each enriching
the other's existence in ways 

1854
01:47:10,240 --> 01:47:12,240
that wouldn't have happened 
without their meeting. 

1855
01:47:12,560 --> 01:47:15,640
Modern readers sometimes 
struggle with the myths ending, 

1856
01:47:16,040 --> 01:47:20,080
wanting Apollo to find some way 
to save we us in thus wanting 

1857
01:47:20,080 --> 01:47:23,960
divine power to be enough. 
Stories today often provide 

1858
01:47:23,960 --> 01:47:27,840
miraculous reversals, last 
second rescues, and ways around 

1859
01:47:27,840 --> 01:47:32,600
seemingly inevitable deaths. 
But the myths power lies partly 

1860
01:47:32,600 --> 01:47:34,960
in its refusal to offer that 
consolation. 

1861
01:47:35,600 --> 01:47:39,600
Death is permanent. 
Lost opportunities don't get 

1862
01:47:39,600 --> 01:47:42,760
second chances. 
The only response available is 

1863
01:47:42,760 --> 01:47:47,160
to create meaning from loss, to 
ensure memory persists even when

1864
01:47:47,160 --> 01:47:49,800
the person doesn't. 
In gardens across the world 

1865
01:47:49,800 --> 01:47:52,640
today, hyacinths still bloom 
every spring. 

1866
01:47:53,320 --> 01:47:56,480
Most people planting them don't 
know the full mythological story

1867
01:47:56,480 --> 01:48:00,040
behind the flowers name, don't 
realise they're participating in

1868
01:48:00,040 --> 01:48:03,680
a memorial that's thousands of 
years old, and don't connect the

1869
01:48:03,680 --> 01:48:07,400
purple petals to a Spartan youth
who died in a training accident.

1870
01:48:08,080 --> 01:48:11,840
They simply enjoy the flowers, 
beauty, their fragrance and 

1871
01:48:11,840 --> 01:48:14,440
their reliable return after 
winter's darkness. 

1872
01:48:14,800 --> 01:48:16,840
And maybe that's the most 
fitting legacy. 

1873
01:48:17,480 --> 01:48:21,360
Piayasin thus wanted to matter, 
wanted to be remembered, and 

1874
01:48:21,360 --> 01:48:24,520
wanted to leave some mark on the
world beyond military glory. 

1875
01:48:25,880 --> 01:48:29,120
Through Apollo's transformation,
he achieved that in the most. 

1876
01:48:29,120 --> 01:48:32,520
Distributed way possible. 
Not through grand monuments that

1877
01:48:32,520 --> 01:48:36,520
eventually crumble, not through 
epic poems that eventually cease

1878
01:48:36,520 --> 01:48:40,840
being read, but through living 
beauty that regenerates itself, 

1879
01:48:41,280 --> 01:48:45,440
that adapts and spreads, that 
brings small moments of joy to 

1880
01:48:45,440 --> 01:48:48,000
millions of people who will 
never know his name. 

1881
01:48:48,320 --> 01:48:52,080
The flowers bloom purple in 
springtime, carrying Apollo's 

1882
01:48:52,080 --> 01:48:55,720
grief and love forward through 
centuries, and that quiet 

1883
01:48:55,720 --> 01:48:58,800
persistence might be more 
meaningful than any dramatic 

1884
01:48:58,800 --> 01:49:02,480
memorial could be. 
Every garden that plants them 

1885
01:49:02,480 --> 01:49:06,800
continues the story, Every 
person who pauses to smell their

1886
01:49:06,800 --> 01:49:11,200
fragrance participates 
unknowingly, and ancient grief 

1887
01:49:11,200 --> 01:49:15,920
transformed into annual beauty. 
Shui, a sin, thus exists now as 

1888
01:49:15,920 --> 01:49:17,680
a principle rather than a 
person. 

1889
01:49:18,400 --> 01:49:21,640
The idea that loss can become 
creation, that grief can 

1890
01:49:21,640 --> 01:49:25,000
generate beauty, and that the 
people we love continue through 

1891
01:49:25,000 --> 01:49:28,320
what they inspired in US rather 
than through their physical 

1892
01:49:28,320 --> 01:49:31,240
presence. 
It's cold comfort when you're 

1893
01:49:31,240 --> 01:49:34,800
first experiencing loss, when 
all you want is the person back,

1894
01:49:34,800 --> 01:49:37,160
and memorials feel like 
inadequate substitutes. 

1895
01:49:37,760 --> 01:49:41,480
But over time, over centuries, 
it's the only kind of 

1896
01:49:41,480 --> 01:49:45,280
immortality that actually works,
the only way to carry forward 

1897
01:49:45,280 --> 01:49:48,200
people who are gone. 
Your breathing has slowed, now 

1898
01:49:48,680 --> 01:49:51,040
deepened into the rhythm of 
approaching sleep. 

1899
01:49:51,720 --> 01:49:55,400
The story of Apollo and Heias E 
Asinas has carried you through 

1900
01:49:55,400 --> 01:49:59,160
the evening, through your own 
days, concerns and worries, into

1901
01:49:59,160 --> 01:50:02,880
this quieter mental space where 
consciousness begins to blur and

1902
01:50:02,880 --> 01:50:06,880
drift, where thoughts become 
less linear and more dreamlike. 

1903
01:50:07,240 --> 01:50:11,000
Perhaps the myth resonates 
because we all carry losses, and

1904
01:50:11,000 --> 01:50:13,880
all wish we could transform our 
grief into something beautiful 

1905
01:50:13,880 --> 01:50:15,640
and permanent, the way Apollo 
did. 

1906
01:50:16,360 --> 01:50:19,480
Perhaps it comforts us to know 
that even gods feel helpless 

1907
01:50:19,480 --> 01:50:23,320
sometimes, that divine power 
doesn't insulate anyone from the

1908
01:50:23,320 --> 01:50:26,800
pain of losing someone they care
about, and that grief is 

1909
01:50:26,800 --> 01:50:29,960
universal, regardless of whether
you're mortal or immortal. 

1910
01:50:29,960 --> 01:50:34,040
Or perhaps you're simply tired, 
ready for sleep, and the story 

1911
01:50:34,040 --> 01:50:37,440
has served its purpose as a 
gentle distraction from whatever

1912
01:50:37,440 --> 01:50:41,240
kept your mind active earlier, 
whatever worries or anxieties 

1913
01:50:41,240 --> 01:50:43,400
were circling like persistent 
flies. 

1914
01:50:44,080 --> 01:50:47,800
That's perfectly fine, too. 
Not every story needs deep 

1915
01:50:47,800 --> 01:50:51,560
meaning or profound insight. 
Sometimes a tale is just 

1916
01:50:51,560 --> 01:50:54,120
pleasant company on the journey 
toward unconsciousness, 

1917
01:50:54,640 --> 01:50:57,600
something to occupy your 
attention while your body 

1918
01:50:57,600 --> 01:50:59,760
relaxes and your mind winds 
down. 

1919
01:51:00,160 --> 01:51:03,280
The hyacinths will bloom again 
next spring, regardless of 

1920
01:51:03,280 --> 01:51:06,200
whether you remember this story 
in the morning, regardless of 

1921
01:51:06,200 --> 01:51:08,960
whether the myth means anything 
to you personally. 

1922
01:51:09,480 --> 01:51:13,600
The stars Apollo rearranged will
continue their slow wheel across

1923
01:51:13,600 --> 01:51:18,040
the night sky, visible to anyone
who looks up on clear evenings. 

1924
01:51:18,840 --> 01:51:23,320
And somewhere in whatever space 
gods occupy in our modern world,

1925
01:51:23,640 --> 01:51:26,560
if they exist at all anymore 
beyond the stories we tell about

1926
01:51:26,560 --> 01:51:31,360
them, Apollo continues his 
eternal duties, carrying his 

1927
01:51:31,400 --> 01:51:34,720
ancient grief with the kind of 
grace that only millennia of 

1928
01:51:34,720 --> 01:51:37,960
practice can provide. 
Your muscles are heavy now, your

1929
01:51:37,960 --> 01:51:40,320
mind drifting like smoke on a 
breeze. 

1930
01:51:40,840 --> 01:51:43,800
The words are becoming less 
distinct, merging into general 

1931
01:51:43,800 --> 01:51:47,240
sound, into rhythm, into the 
white noise that carries you 

1932
01:51:47,240 --> 01:51:50,040
away from wakefulness, toward 
whatever dreams await you 

1933
01:51:50,040 --> 01:51:52,600
tonight. 
Tomorrow will come soon enough, 

1934
01:51:53,080 --> 01:51:55,920
bringing its own concerns and 
tasks and urgencies. 

1935
01:51:56,400 --> 01:51:59,040
The alarm will ring, or the 
light will wake you, and you'll 

1936
01:51:59,040 --> 01:52:01,880
return to your regular life with
its responsibilities and 

1937
01:52:01,880 --> 01:52:07,480
relationships and complications.
But tonight you've had this a 

1938
01:52:07,480 --> 01:52:11,160
story about friendship and loss,
about creating beauty from 

1939
01:52:11,160 --> 01:52:14,440
tragedy, about how we carry 
forward the people we've loved 

1940
01:52:14,440 --> 01:52:17,880
even after they're gone. 
The hyacinth blooms purple in 

1941
01:52:17,880 --> 01:52:21,280
springtime, marked with patterns
that might be letters or might 

1942
01:52:21,280 --> 01:52:23,640
be nothing, depending on how you
look at them. 

1943
01:52:24,040 --> 01:52:25,680
And that's all you need to 
remember. 

1944
01:52:25,960 --> 01:52:29,720
That beauty returns after 
winter, that grief can transform

1945
01:52:29,720 --> 01:52:33,400
into something generative, that 
the people who matter to us 

1946
01:52:33,400 --> 01:52:37,880
continue in what they taught us,
in how they changed us, and in 

1947
01:52:37,880 --> 01:52:41,120
the memories we carry. 
Everything else can wait until 

1948
01:52:41,120 --> 01:52:42,720
morning, Lee. 
Well. 

1949
02:02:11,760 --> 02:03:59,920
Yeah. 
Yeah. 

1950
02:13:39,120 --> 02:14:38,440
Yeah. 
Yeah. 

1951
02:15:08,560 --> 02:19:55,360
Yeah. 
Yeah. 

1952
02:21:10,440 --> 02:22:41,560
Yeah. 
Yeah.