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(dramatic music)
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- [Narrator] Mine be the
deer, lyre and bended bow,
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and I will utter to men the
unerring council of Zeus.
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Such are the first words
of Apollo hardly out
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of his mother's womb.
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Apollo, God of light,
protector of the arts,
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patron of the divine and of the prophets.
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The sun beats down on the
newborn babe, or rather babes,
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for next to Apollo sleeps
his twin sister Artemis.
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All around them in the
arid and desolate landscape
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this island where their mother Leto,
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the Goddess of the night,
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finally found refuge is truly a stone.
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Just a single tree,
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a palm tree, the silence, and the sea
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stretching out to infinity.
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Leto's face relaxes nine days,
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nine days before deliverance came.
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Nine days of suffering after
seven months of wandering.
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And all that was whose fault?
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Zeus of course.
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Zeus who might have been
called the God of adultery
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if he hadn't already
been given the title of
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Master of Olympus.
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Zeus and his innumerable
feminine conquests.
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Poor Leto, for how long
did the king of the Gods
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harass her before stealing her virtue?
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Indeed she might have
guessed that this affair
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would end badly.
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Leto pulls her twins to her side.
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She remembers, how could she forget.
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A few months earlier she announces to Zeus
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that she if pregnant.
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The master of the Gods explodes with joy.
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This boy, for it will no doubt be a boy,
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will be the most valiant
of all his children,
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the most handsome.
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Leto does not share
her lover's exuberance.
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Indeed she is very worried,
for Zeus is married,
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and not to just anybody.
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His spouse his called Hera,
and she shares his sovereignty
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over heaven and Earth.
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Not only is she the greatest
of all the Olympian Goddesses,
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but she is the protecting
divinity of marriage,
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and infidelity is something
Hera doesn't like in the least.
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Deception is no joking matter for her.
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Pitiless not only with her rivals,
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but also with the children
they bring into the world.
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Of course Leto could've
pointed out that she hadn't
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wreaked havoc in an other
wise untroubled union.
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A short time earlier the
heavens had been witness
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to another clash.
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(thunder)
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Having learnt that Zeus
was on the point of
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committing a new infidelity
Hera had called upon
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Athena, Poseidon, and numerous
other divinities for help.
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Together they had tried to chain Zeus.
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Alas the project failed,
and it didn't take long
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for the Master of Olympus to retaliate.
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As Hera was at the
origin of the conspiracy
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Zeus suspended her over the clouds,
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an anvil attached to each ankle.
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Despite her cries no God
dared come to her aid.
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Zeus only accepted to
release her on condition that
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all the conspirators vow never
to rise up against him again.
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Leto's fears turned out to be justified.
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Zeus' cries of joy upon
learning that his mistress
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is pregnant have reached
as far as Hera's chamber,
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right up there on Olympus.
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Yet more deceit.
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This time the Goddess' promises her anger
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will know no bounds.
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To start with she
threatens bloody reprisals
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against anyone who offers Leto asylum.
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Next she calls up a monster
from the depths of the Earth,
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Python the serpent,
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and she sets it on the heels
of the unfortunate woman.
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And so begins weeks of
wandering for poor Leto.
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Abandoned by all, desperate,
she goes from land to land
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and from town to town looking for a place
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where she can bring her
twins into the world
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in all safety.
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(quiet music)
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But her path is strewn with closed doors
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and evasive glances.
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No one dare brave the anger of Hera.
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Leto struggles on begging
until, already stricken
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by the first pains, she
reaches a little island
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in the Aegean sea by the name os Asteria.
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Asteria, that was the name of her sister.
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She too had once suffered Zeus' advances,
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but rather than give in she had
thrown herself into the sea.
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(eerie music)
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At the place where she fell
had appeared the island
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of Asteria.
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Leto seeks refuge on the island
which was once her sister.
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She lies down at the foot of a palm tree.
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She first gives birth to a girl, Artemis,
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and then a boy, Apollo.
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So here he is this magnificent God.
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This God of light, of
music, and of poetry.
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Seven days later and he's
already out of nappies.
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He's already a superb boy
with extraordinary strength.
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Zeus sends him a seven
stringed lyre, a chariot
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pulled by two powerful
swans, a bow and arrows
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specially made for him by
Haphaestus the God of blacksmiths.
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Immediately Apollo decides to leave.
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He has a fixed purpose in
mind, to be the one who reveals
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to mortals their destiny,
as well as the intentions
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of his father, the mighty Zeus,
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but for that he must find a place.
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A place where he can build his temple.
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Apollo climbs onto his
chariot, leaves the island
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which suddenly becoming fertile and green
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takes the name of Delos the resplendent.
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But the swans who pull
his chariot see things
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in a different way.
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They carry their passenger
off to their own country
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beyond the north wind, the
land of they Hyperboreans.
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It's a magic country.
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The gold that is found here
is guarded by griffins.
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The people here are rich,
happy, and never grow old.
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Here Apollo is initiated
into the mysteries of Zeus.
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(wistful music)
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Then he continues his journey.
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He arrives at a splendid
spring lost in the middle
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of a deep forest.
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The place is guarded by a nymph.
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Her name is Telphusa.
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When Apollo informs her
that he intends to build
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a magnificent temple here the nymph,
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offended that a greater
divinity has come to compete
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with her, persuades him that
the place though beautiful
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is terribly noisy.
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She sings the praises of
another sight very close by
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at the foot of the gorge
of Mount Parnassus.
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Apollo sets off again.
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He doesn't know it,
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but the nymph has just
laid a trap for him.
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(dramatic music)
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A few hours later Apollo
discovers a magnificent valley.
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The place does indeed seem
perfect, but hardly has he
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started to mark out the
foundations of his temple
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than a shadow silently
slides up behind him.
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Python, the terrible serpent
who was already hunting him
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in his mother's womb, Python had been here
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awaiting his hour of revenge.
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The combat is incredibly violent.
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(dramatic music)
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Apollo's triumph is absolute.
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Yes, but he killed a God all the same.
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Gaea, the Mother Earth who
gave birth to this monster
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is furious.
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She immediately reports
this offense to Zeus.
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Zeus orders his son to
go to the vail of Tempe
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to purify himself.
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Apollo does more than this.
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He establishes the Pythic games in memory
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of his beaten adversary.
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But what is a sanctuary without a priest?
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While looking out to sea in meditation
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Apollo suddenly notices a vessel
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which seems to be in trouble.
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He leaps into action, takes
the form of a dolphin,
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and reaches the boat.
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Onboard he finds that the
Cretin sailors are half dead
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from hunger, thirst, and fatigue.
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He promises to save them on condition
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that they accept never to go home,
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and to faithfully serve him.
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Apollo leads the boat to shore
and initiates the sailors
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into the divine secrets.
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On the pediment of the
temple he has the words
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"know thyself" engraved.
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An errant God roaming the
countryside, Apollo undoubtedly
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understands better than
most the profound meaning
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of this maxim.
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(soft music)
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It remains to find a name for the place.
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The sailors turned priest
remarked that it was
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in the form of a dolphin that
Apollo had appeared to them.
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Dolphin, Delphis in Greek.
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Apollo approves.
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The site will be called Delphi.
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Delphi is soon to become the
most venerated place of worship
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in all Greece.
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People hasten there from the
four corners of the Earth
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to know the destiny reserved
for mortals by the Gods.
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For that one needs to
question the oracle of Delphi.
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The famous Pythia.
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It is through the mouth of
this oracle that the God
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is supposed to express himself.
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(angelic music)
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For the moment the time
of wandering is over,
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and the time of power can begin.
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Apollo makes a triumphant
arrival on Olympus
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at the assembly of the Gods.
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He is at the height of his glory.
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Alas everyone has their
dark side, even the Gods.
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And although with his lyre Apollo enchants
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the immortals stay,
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with his bow he renders
men's lives impossible,
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and one quickly discovers
that behind the delightful
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poet who frolics with the muses hides
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a bloody and violent archer.
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A Queen, the arrogant Niobe,
will learn this to her cost,
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and she won't be the only one.
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Niobe rains over the town of Thebes.
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She had once been loved by
Zeus, but had not deigned
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to give him children.
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However, Niobe was fertile.
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With her husband Amphion she
had brought into the world
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no less than fourteen children.
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One day spurred on by
jealousy and grievance
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Niobe boasts of her prodigious fertility,
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and taunts the Goddess Leto
who only has two twins,
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Artemis and Apollo.
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An unpardonable offense in Apollo's eyes.
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While Niobe's children are
accompanying their mother
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on Mount Sipylus Apollo approaches them,
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and without any qualms
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bends his bow and lets fly his arrows.
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Fourteen arrows, fourteen
children, total carnage.
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We can only imagine the immense sadness
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of the unfortunate Niobe.
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(sad music)
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Prostrate she refuses to leave the tomb
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of her assassinated children,
and bewails them day and night
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until Zeus taking pity on
her turns her into a rock
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streaming with tears.
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A paradox of this
strikingly beautiful God,
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he is always disappointed in love.
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The women to whom he is most attached
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always escape him inexorably.
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The most famous of these unconquered women
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is the nymph Daphne.
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Daphne spends most of her time hunting.
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However, one day Eros
the young God of Love
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who Apollo constantly teases
for his weak archery skills
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decides to play a game
on the proud seducer.
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He pierces Apollo's
heart with a golden arrow
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which makes him fall in love with Daphne.
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Then he strikes Daphne
with an arrow of lead
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which renders her insensible to love.
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Apollo tries to court Daphne,
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but she obstinately refuses him.
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To avoid the God's persistent
advances she flees.
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Apollo chases after her.
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(quick music)
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The nymph plunges
through the forest until,
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as her strength fails her,
she collapses onto the bank
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of the great river Peneus.
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With Apollo only a few steps behind her
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Daphne fervently calls upon her father,
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the God of the river Peneus,
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and the God hears her.
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In a thunder of water and spray
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Peneus surges out of the water,
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and with the point of his
scepter touches her breast
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just at the level of her heart,
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right where Eros' arrow had struck.
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The beautiful Daphne
feels her members stiffen.
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Her fine tunic slides from her haunches,
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and her body suddenly becomes
covered with rough gray bark.
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Her arms stretch out into branches,
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her hands become vines,
her blood turns into sap,
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and her ankles enroot themselves
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in the warm grass of the riverbank.
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Her father has just changed her
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into a magnificent moral tree.
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Apollo rushes to her, but too late.
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(sad music)
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He can only grasp the smooth frozen trunk.
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Under the bark he feels
Daphne's living heart beating.
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Beaten, broken, Apollo picks
a branch from this laurel
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and decides that from now on
a branch of this sacred tree
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will decorate his lyre, and
adorn the heads of poets.
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Turbulent, violent, it is
time for somebody to bring
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this overtly impulsive God to heel.
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Who could be better placed
than his father Zeus?
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Apollo has just fallen in love once again.
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Her name is Coronis,
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she's the daughter of the King of Thesime.
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Apollo and Coronis are happy.
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Coronis carries the God's child,
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but the princess still
pregnant unfortunately falls
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under the charm of a simple mortal.
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A certain Ischys.
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It's a raven, who the God has employed
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to watch over this beauty,
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who informs Apollo of this treason.
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His anger is as always implacable.
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Apollo starts by killing the poor raven
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who originally white becomes black.
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Then he kills Ischys and Coronis.
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At the moment when the body of Coronis
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laid out on the funeral
pyre is about to be consumed
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by flames Apollo snatches from her breast
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the still living child.
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This child is Asclepius.
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Apollo is shaken by this fresh tragedy.
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Once again he has lost the woman he loved,
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but he still has the child.
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Asclepius learns the
greatest secrets of medicine,
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and soon he proves to be os
gifted that he personally
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discovers the most
incredible and insane remedy,
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the dream of humanity.
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How to resuscitate the dead.
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And he doesn't hesitate to use it.
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Asclepius resuscitates
Orion, Hippolytus, Tyndareus,
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and then Lycurgus.
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Hades the master of the
Underworld is furious.
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What is happening is very serious.
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Asclepius is shaking
the order which reigns
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between the Gods and men.
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It is out of the question
to let him carry on.
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Hades protests to Zeus.
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The master of Olympus shares his anger.
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Asclepius has gone much to
far, so without hesitation
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Zeus strikes down the medical
genius with a thunderbolt.
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(thunder)
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Apollo is in despair.
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His own father has dared to take his son.
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To take vengeance on Zeus
Apollo targets the cyclops,
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those one eyed creatures
who had forged the thunder
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for the mater of Olympus,
and assassinates them
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one by one.
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(dramatic music)
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Zeus is furious.
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This son is clearly uncontrollable.
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Zeus dreams up the
worst way to punish him.
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Throw him into Tartarus,
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that accursed corner of the Underworld,
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but when Leto intercedes Zeus
agrees to soften the sentence.
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Apollo will become the slave of a mortal.
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For one year he will
serve the King of Thecilly
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as a simple shepard.
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(eerie music)
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All is tragedy in the life of this God.
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All is complexity.
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Even in his loves, which are not limited
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to the feminine gender,
for Apollo also loves men.
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Two of his lovers come to dreadful ends.
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Hyacinth and Cyparissus.
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Hyacinth is accidentally
killed by Apollo who,
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to honor him, turns him into the flower.
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As for Cyparissus, in despair at the death
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of his favorite animal, he begs
Apollo to put him to death.
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The God refuses, but faced
with his friends insistence
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turns him into a cypress tree.
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One has to recognize that
there's a certain genius
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in this God, who though unhappy
still finds the strength
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to lend beauty to sorrow.
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(quick dramatic music)
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So far from the cliches which
depict him as a solo God,
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a God of purity and of beauty,
Apollo cultivates paradoxes
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in the same way as mortals do.
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He is both shadow and light.
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Apollo is the God of many faces.
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(dramatic music)
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