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The Attic festival calendar marks the seventh day of each month as a day sacred to this deity and names its third month after his Boedromios aspect. In certain ephebeia ceremonies, young boys would cut off their long hair and offer it to this deity to symbolically represent entering adulthood. A Theban festival honoring this deity features a procession led by a young boy bearing an olive branch hung with the festival’s (-5[1])namesake plant to an altar where he would offer a bronze tripod. This deity transformed into a (*) dolphin to carry Cretan priests to one of his main places of worship. The Panhellenic Games held the year after the Olympic Games were named for a serpent that this deity purportedly slew as an infant. (10[1])For 10 points, name this patron deity of Delphi, the Greek god of light and music. ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Apollo [or Apollon, or Phoebus Apollo, or Boedromios Apollo] (The Theban festival is the Daphnephoria.)
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