Board Thread:The Trials of Apollo/@comment-34435307-20180122172929/@comment-33040002-20180309143314

Philosophernoct wrote: Laviniak wrote: Actually it depends more about what you consider truth. Apollo technically didn't lie about python, he fought with it but he didn't tell how it was hard and just because he is the god of truth doesn't mean he can't lie, see hera is the goddess of marriage and family and it doesn't mean she always act like that. And in Ancient Greece they considered Apollo the god of truth because compared with the other gods he didn't use schemes to get what he wanted, usually he would take it or demand directly. He was cheated, when he was challenging a music contest with Marsyas. I mean, what's with that playing a lyre upside down when flute can't do that, cause, it is flute and flutes can't be played upside down. It was obviously cheating, cause Apollo knows that flutes can't work that way. If it is means not lying (not telling a lie, but acting unfairly, wrongly and that was kinda lying too), what it is then? Apollo did this to just win to a contest. And most sick part is when he hang marsyas over a pine tree and flayed him when he was still alive. He didn't cheat because both of them were in a competition to see who was the best. In the original myth apollo and marsias try to find out who was the best musician in some versions apollo was elected the winner without doubt in other ones both are considered the best and so apollo put the lyre upside down and plays it but in any moment it can be considered cheating because apollo was showing his abilities to prove he was the best, he or anyone didn't come over and said "now the task is to play your instrument upside down" in a nutshell the competition never had rules it was " now both of you play and the public will decide who has more abilities" and that's why apollo won.