Asklepios

God of Medicine

Asklepios is the God of Medicine, son of Apollo and Koronis, a mortal princess. Unlike His father, who worries about the balance between health and disease, having in mind the all population, and whose methods are more of the spiritual healing kind, Asklepios concerns the health of each individual, with each little problem that afflicts men and with a more physical kind of Medicine.

Asklepios was born a mortal, but His deeds eventually made him a God, but not a God in Olympus, nor a God walking beneath the earth in Hades - He is a God who walks the earth among men.

Serpents are His epiphany and He is present in the spirit of physicians and all health care professionals, stimulating a knowledge of the human body and of drugs and herbs. This God is not, unlike His father, a distant one, who cares little about the physical part of the human being, but one of those who takes care of mankind and gives his hands to help us. In fact, we can say that Asklepios gives as much for us as Prometheus once did, for if the Titan showed us how to destroy and create, Asklepios shows us how to preserve.

Shrine to Hygieia

Offerings to Asklepios

The Birth of Asklepios

Incubation and Temple Healing

I am not an athenian or a greek, but a citizen of the world - Socrates