Editing Apollo (section)

===Minoan origin===
[[File:AMI - Goldene Doppelaxt.jpg|thumb|Ornamented golden [[Minoan civilization|Minoan]] [[labrys]]]]
George Huxley considered the identification of Apollo with the Minoan deity Paiawon, worshipped in Crete, to have originated at Delphi.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Huxley|first=George|date=6 June 1975|title=Cretan Paiawones|url=https://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/8541|journal=Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies|language=en|volume=16|issue=2|pages=119–124|issn=2159-3159}}</ref> In the ''Homeric Hymn'', Apollo appears as a dolphin carrying Cretan priests to Delphi, to which site they evidently transfer their religious practices. ''Apollo Delphinios'' or ''Delphidios'' was a sea-god worshipped especially in Crete and in the islands.<ref>Martin Nilsson (1967). Vol&nbsp;I, p.&nbsp;554 A4</ref> Apollo's sister [[Artemis]], who was the Greek goddess of hunting, is identified with the Minoan goddess [[Britomartis]] (Diktynna), and with ''Laphria'' the Pre-Greek "mistress of the animals" who was specially worshipped at Delphi. In her earliest depictions she was accompanied by the "Master of the animals", a bow-wielding god of hunting whose name has been lost; aspects of this figure may have been absorbed into the more popular Apollo.<ref name="Nilsson499">Martin Nilsson (1967), Vol I, pp. 499–500</ref> A family of priests at Delphi was named "Lab(r)yaden". The name may derive from Laphria.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Gods, Heroes and Tyrants: Greek chronology in chaos |first=Emmet John |last=Sweeney |publisher=Algora Publishing |isbn=9780875866826 |date=2009 |page=116 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wI6zh4E06TgC&q=Labryades&pg=PA116}}</ref>