Aplu (deity)

Aplu was a deity of the plague — bringing it, or, if propitiated, protecting from it — and resembles Apollo Smintheus, "mouse-Apollo".[1][2]

Aplu may be related with Apaliunas who is considered to be the Hittite reflex of *Apeljōn, an early form of the name “Apollo”.[3]

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References
  1. "smintheus" (Perseus.tufts) σμινθεύς
  2. Homer. Iliad, i. 37-39.
  3. John L. Angel; Machteld Johanna Mellink (1986). Troy and the Trojan War: A Symposium Held at Bryn Mawr College, October 1984. Bryn Mawr Commentaries. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-929524-59-7.
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