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"In Greek mythology Python was the oracular serpent of Delphi." Too bad to lose this, replaced with "monstrous snake". -- Wetman 04:31, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Serpent, snake, what's the difference? (Piped) links are good, though.
Are we reading the same Homeric Hymn? The Homeric Hymn to Apollo actually doesn't say whose child Python was; the parthenogenetic child of Hera was Typhon, whom Hera gave to Typhon to nurse. Here's the relevant passage (lines 349-354):
By the way, the Hymn to Apollo is now generally considered a unified work, so we don't need to separate it into Delian and Pythian hymns.
Finally, who ever says that Python gave oracles? Guarding an oracular shrine doesn't make you an oracular snake. --Akhilleus ( talk) 05:50, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
... who slew her and remade her former home his own oracle ...
Does the word oracle refer to home or to prophetic ability? 59.189.84.174 ( talk) 06:11, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
It menas that Apollo made the former home of the Python into his oracle (place of prophesying). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.199.17.94 ( talk) 14:25, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
If anyone else can check the sources and see if they confirm this edit (and comment generally on it), I'd appreciate it. I'm suspicious of any edit that doesn't have the full book title or page number if it is at all controversial. I'd love to know what Eller is being used for, she's not a supporter of some of the extreme matriarchy stuff, Dougweller ( talk) 14:59, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
In Greek mythology, The Anaconda was a snake/
Python so huge that it encircled the world at the
Equator ! Call it what you may, but the points to the tale are as follows:
A. It was a completely mythological creature, and it was like a python, which the Ancient Greeks knew of.
B. The Ancient Greeks had contacts, via travelers, in India, Burma, Ceylon, etc. Later on, the Romans even exchanged ambassadors with China. See the map of the world that was drawn by
Ptolemy, a Greek in Egypt.
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talk) 07:36, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
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"In Greek mythology Python was the oracular serpent of Delphi." Too bad to lose this, replaced with "monstrous snake". -- Wetman 04:31, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Serpent, snake, what's the difference? (Piped) links are good, though.
Are we reading the same Homeric Hymn? The Homeric Hymn to Apollo actually doesn't say whose child Python was; the parthenogenetic child of Hera was Typhon, whom Hera gave to Typhon to nurse. Here's the relevant passage (lines 349-354):
By the way, the Hymn to Apollo is now generally considered a unified work, so we don't need to separate it into Delian and Pythian hymns.
Finally, who ever says that Python gave oracles? Guarding an oracular shrine doesn't make you an oracular snake. --Akhilleus ( talk) 05:50, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
... who slew her and remade her former home his own oracle ...
Does the word oracle refer to home or to prophetic ability? 59.189.84.174 ( talk) 06:11, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
It menas that Apollo made the former home of the Python into his oracle (place of prophesying). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.199.17.94 ( talk) 14:25, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
If anyone else can check the sources and see if they confirm this edit (and comment generally on it), I'd appreciate it. I'm suspicious of any edit that doesn't have the full book title or page number if it is at all controversial. I'd love to know what Eller is being used for, she's not a supporter of some of the extreme matriarchy stuff, Dougweller ( talk) 14:59, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
In Greek mythology, The Anaconda was a snake/
Python so huge that it encircled the world at the
Equator ! Call it what you may, but the points to the tale are as follows:
A. It was a completely mythological creature, and it was like a python, which the Ancient Greeks knew of.
B. The Ancient Greeks had contacts, via travelers, in India, Burma, Ceylon, etc. Later on, the Romans even exchanged ambassadors with China. See the map of the world that was drawn by
Ptolemy, a Greek in Egypt.
24.156.78.205 (
talk) 07:36, 30 May 2018 (UTC)