Temple of Apollo

The Dionysian Artificers were perhaps associated with the great lonians who built the Temple of Diana at Ephesus in the eleventh century BCE. This temple was one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The Dorians similarly built the Temple of Apollo at Tripoli. 

Does hell exist The ancient Greeks certainly thought so. They even knew where the entrance to the underworld was to be found right beside the Temple of Apollo in Pamukkale, in what is now Turkey. 

Geologists have discovered that water in a spring near the ancient site of the oracle contains the hydrocarbons methane, ethane, and ethylene (ethene). Ethane and methane were found in pieces of travertine, a limestone stalactite deposited by an ancient spring. In the days of the Pythia, colliding tectonic plates near the Temple of Apollo are believed to have generated sufficient heat to vaporize the hydrocarbons, which were extruded as vapors in the chamber of the oracle. If those vapors included ethylene, the Pythia may have been in a state of ethylene narcosis. Ethylene may produce states of euphoria and memory disturbances. Overexposure can lead to loss of consciousness and even death due to hypoxia. ... 

Ancient Monuments Under Seismic Actions Modeling and Analysis, Fig. 18 Comparison of the stability threshold for the overturning of the multidrum column and the equivalent single-block column (a) column of the temple of Zeus (b) column the temple of Apollo (Psycharis et al. 2000)... 

These enigmatic headpieces signaled that within lay a metaphor for one of the secret Rosicmcian mythological histories of ancient Britain when Britain was called Ortygie, the land of Leto the White Goddess. Leto was the mother of Apollo and Artemis (AA). William Blake s hymn Jerusalem described this Hyperborean island of God (see also Chapter 17) where the inhabitants were, in a sense, Apollo s priests and Apollo had a grand shrine and big circular temple ... 

The Egyptians raised Temples to Imhotep in Memphis and in Philae, on the Island of Elephantine. The Greeks subsequently worshipped him as Asclepius, the god of medicine and the son of Apollo. The great Imhotep is still highly regarded by the medical profession. 

Apollo in his temple at Delphi. Here the priestess of the god Pythia sat on a tripod uttering incoherent words in a divine ecstacy, in reply to the questions that were asked. Pythia was intoxicated by the fumes from burning datura leaves her replies were interpreted by a priest in the form of a verse. The more common uses of datura were for robbery or conspiracy. Indian courtesans were knovmto place datura in their visitors wine, so that they could be robbed without interference. As recently as 1908, there was a plan to poison the European garrison in Hanoi in Vietnam using datura. Those in the conspiracy intended to stupefy the soldiers, and then to kill them. 

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