Apollo's attributes are the sun, light, clarity, truth.

He represents the principle of rational consciousness which, in so many of the positive and heroic figures of mythology, faces great difficulties in being born.
Hera in her jealousy (of Zeus' affairs) pursued Apollo's mother, Leto, so that no place on earth could be found for his birth. Finally he was born on the floating island of Delos, which shows us in what tenuous ways the light of "consciousness" first comes into the world?

Apollo killed the Python of Delphi and took over that oracle, so he is vanquisher of unconscious terrors. He is golden-haired like the sun; he is an archer who shoots arrows of insight and/or death; he is a god of music and the lyre. Healing belongs to his realm: he was the father of Asclepius, the god of medicine. The Muses are part of his retinue, so that music, history, dreams, poetry, dance, all belong to him. The Muses are those we call on when we evoke creative imagination to give us helpful images?

Apollo and Daphne

Apollo has his ominous aspects, too. Marsyas, who dared challenge him to a music contest, was flayed after he lost, signifying the stripping power of light. His arrows can symbolize the rays of the sun that bring light and insight - but they also can bring death. The Iliad begins with a terrible pestilence that Apollo brought down upon the Greeks because they dishonored one of his priests. Apollo's arrows of death struck again when Queen Niobe, who was excessively proud of her seven sons and seven daughters, disparaged Apollo's mother, Leto, for having only two children (Apollo and Artemis)?

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