Sunday, January 20, 2019

Is it possible the word Arnion is related to Karneios?

Karnieos was a uniquely Dorian epithet of Apollo that reflected Apollo's associations with Rams and Shepherds.  As Apollon Karnieos he was depicted as having two Ram's Horns which fits the imagery of the Beast from The Earth in Revelation 13.  Apollo was also associated with Prophecy.
https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/stater-of-metapontion-with-head-of-apollo-karneios-1249

Because Dorian was a distinct dialect of Greek, and not the same dialect the New Testament was written in, maybe it's possible the K at the beginning of this word was a result of the Doric accent thus making Arnion/Arnios/Arnia basically the same word.  Apollo's association with Rams and Shepherds was not unique to the Dorians however.
https://sites.google.com/site/apollonslyre/theoi-gods/apollon/about-apollon/apollon-karneios

Corinth was a Dorian part of Greece and did indeed have a Temple to Apollon Karneios, so Christians would have been exposed to the concept.  When arguing that Pergamon might be Ilium/Troy I cited evidence that stuff from the Iliad might have been alluded to in Revelation, scenes that specifically involved Apollon.  Well the Iliad also refers to Apollon as Shepherding the Herds of Ilium.  So Apollo could well be link-able to the Idol Shepherd of Zechariah 12.

Apollo is also said to have taken the form of a Wolf in one account, making two of his epithets Lycegenes (born of a wolf) and Lycoctonus (killer Wolf), fitting Jesus reference to False Prophets being Wolves in Sheep's Clothing.

Apollyon from Revelation 9:11 was an ancient variation on the name Apollo.  Like in Aeschylus's play Agamemnon, where Cassandra says repeatedly.  "Apollo, thou destroyer, O Apollo, Lord of fair streets, Apollyon to me."  I've argued before that if Apollyon is one of the beasts in Revelation 13 it's the second one rather then the first.  Apollo was also associated with Locusts, hence his epithet Parnopion.  Apollo was also said to be the ancestor of the Centaurs which one could also see as relevant to Revelation 9.

This discovery weakens my past desire to see Arnion as a word for Goat thus further tying Yom Kippur into the narrative of Revelation. Though the second link does also discus an association of Apollon Karnieos with the Goat god Pan.

The Septuagint rarely used any from Arnion but it does provide precedent in Jeremiah 11:19 for Arnion being used to translate the Hebrew Kebes.  Exodus 29:38-41 uses Kebes for the daily offering.  Exodus 12:5 does also associate the word Kebes with the Passover Lamb.  Leviticus 23:12 uses Kebes of the animal sacrifice linked to the Aparche offering giving on the Sunday following Passover.

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