The imaginary similarity of Achilles and Apollo images
The ancient sources, allegedly demonstrating the similarity of Achilles and Apollo images, are critically considered. In particular, the inconsistency of arguments about the similarity of Achilles and Apollo images in terms of navigation, music and medicine patronage is shown. The probability of the Apollo image origin among the carriers of haplogroup R1b which began the movement from the Urals to the Northern black sea region about 7-6 thousand years ago is shown. On the contrary, the Achilles image probably appeared among the carriers of haplogroup R1а (proto-Aryans), who penetrated from the Danube and the Carpathians to the Northern black sea region about 5000 years ago. It makes impossible to judge the similarity of Achilles and Apollo images in their very basis. Different influence of mythological constructs of Achilles and Apollo on ideology and ethics of ancient and modern European Nations is shown.