1. What is your deity's name, and what concepts of the human condition do they represent?

My deity is Apollo, God of the Sun, music, archery, sickness, poetry, oracles, and healing. He was also important to the protection of children.

2. Give a brief description of your god's backstory. How were they born/created? Who are they married to?
First off, Apollo never gets married, except for in a very fringe sect where he and Artemis were married. In every other story, his lovers get turned into flora by some ridiculous coincidence, or a rage flowering on someones part, and he walks away disheveled. LOL.

He is the son of Leto, the Titaness of Motherhood and Child Protection, and Zeus, King of the Gods. This was not Hera's favorite dalliance, so Hera did Hera stuff and tried to kill Leto by chasing her all across the world. Leto finally found refuge on Delos where she bore Apollo and his sister Artemis.

3. What is something about your deity that most people don't know?

One of Apollo's names is Mouse Daemon, because of his tendency to send mice to plague Troy when he was unhappy, and remove them once he was appeased :)

4. What's something unique you've learned from working with them this year?
Apollo has no ability to see where other people are coming from. The sun shines, it does not reflect, and because of this, part of his mysteries are about learning how to see where other people are coming from.

5. If you were to spend a day with your deity, what activities would do? How would they react to those mortal activities?
We would go go cart racing. He would love it. Until I beat him. Then he would probably turn me into a plant.

Witness the gods walk the earth at this year's Spring Mysteries Festival