Phoibos, Pythios, Mousagetes, Hekaergos, Lykeios, Shamash, Utu, the Hidden Sun of Ra, Great One of the Divine Tetrad, Sun God of Divine Names
Learn more…After you are done with this, you can meditate on Apollo's Sigil in the Temple of Zeus, or the one below. Let yourself be immersed and receive energy from Apollo.
It's important to meditate on yourself after the Ritual calmly for a few minutes.
सत्: SAT, real, true, truthful in Sanskrit.
The Symbol that Encapsulates the Sigil: The Shen Ring, Egyptian Hieroglyphic language. The Shen also survived in Chinese tradition as a glyph for Spiritual Force, Divine Force, and God.
The Ancient Greek letters for Apollo's Name in arrangement.
The ritual invokes a single solar God known by many names. Apollo (Greek: Ἀπόλλων) is the Olympian God of the sun, light, music, prophecy, healing, and archery, son of Zeus and Leto. His Greek epithets include Phoibos ("Bright"), Pythios ("of Delphi," slayer of the Python), Mousagetes ("Leader of the Muses"), Hekaergos ("Far-worker"), Lykeios ("of Light/Wolves"), Kitharoidos ("Lyre-player"), Iatros ("Healer"), and Alexikakos ("Averter of evil"). Shamash (Akkadian: Šamaš) is the Mesopotamian Sun God and supreme judge, called Dayyanu ("Judge of Heaven and Earth"). Utu (Sumerian) is his older Sumerian form, called Babbar ("the White/Brilliant"). The ritual identifies Apollo with "the Hidden Sun of Ra," indicating his connection to the Egyptian solar theology, where the sun passes through the underworld (Duat) each night and emerges renewed at dawn.
(Sources: Homeric Hymn to Apollo; Pindar, Pythian I; Hesiod, Theogony 918-920; Lambert, Babylonian Wisdom Literature, 1960; Black & Green, Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia, 1992)
The Hebrew name Azazel (עזאזל) appears in Leviticus 16:8-10, where the High Priest Aaron casts lots over two goats: one "for YHWH" and one "for Azazel." The goat "for Azazel" receives the confessed sins of the community and is driven into the wilderness. In Zevist theology, this ritual is understood as a deliberate act of theological character assassination: the solar God Apollo, whose sacred animal is the goat (tragos, from which "tragedy" derives), was transformed into a receptacle for sin and banished into the desert. The name Azazel may derive from az (goat) + azel (departure/removal), or from azaz (strong) + el (god), "the strong god." The 1 Enoch tradition (chapters 6-10) further demonized Azazel as a "fallen angel" who taught humanity forbidden arts, which in reality are the civilizing arts of Apollo: music, metalwork, cosmetics, and astronomical knowledge.
The ritual weaves epithets from three linguistic traditions. The Greek epithets derive from the Homeric Hymns, Pindar, and the Orphic tradition. The Akkadian epithets (Shamash, Dayyanu) derive from the Code of Hammurabi stele, where Shamash is depicted granting the law to the king, and from the Shamash Hymn (BWL). The Sumerian epithets (Utu, Babbar) are attested from the earliest cuneiform texts. The Egyptian connection (Ra, Hor-Akhty) is mediated through the Hellenistic identification of Apollo with the Egyptian solar theology, attested in Plutarch, Macrobius, and the PGM. The blending reflects the ancient understanding that the solar principle is universal and expresses itself through every civilization's highest deity of light, truth, and prophecy.