Though he is constantly associated with disease as the "striker from afar ", Apollo is also closely related to healing because of his ability to perform the duties of a civilization's medicine man. ... His final decision was made at Delphi, at Mount Parnassus near the Corinthian Gulf: "This is the place where I plan to build my glorious temple, an oracular shrine, to which mankind may forever bring my unblemished offerings from rich Peloponnesus from Europe, and from the wave-washed islands around in the sea. " The name comes from "delphus ", the Greek word for "womb. " Unfortunately, th...

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