apollo

Apollo

 

God of the sun

Son of Zeus and Leto

 

He skinned the python. Though less excusable was the treatment of a satyr named marsyas. Apollo challenged him to play music.  But was unfair because marsyas played a flute and you cannot play that upside down. But Apollo played the lyre. So Apollo  won and flayed marsyas alive and nailed his skin to a tree.  A stream rushed from the tree’s roots and became a river. They called the river marsyas.