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Description

Father: Crius (1st generation Titan)

Mother: Gaia (primordial deity)

Race: 1/2 Titan, 1/2 Earth Giant = Drakaina (or Drakon) Monster

Python was a monstrous dragon-serpent set by Gaia (the Earth) to guard the sacred oracle of Delphi.

According to some the creature was born from the rotting slime left behind by the Great Deluge.

When the god Apollon laid claim to the shrine, he slew Python with a volley of a hundred arrows.

The oracle and festival of Delphoi were afterwards named Pytho and Pythian from the rotting (pythô) corpse of the beast.

Some say Apollon slew the monster to avenge his mother Leto who had been relentlessly pursued by the dragon during her long pregnancy

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Python was variously described as a male or female Drakon.

The Homeric Hymn to Apollo--and some ancient Greek art--equates her with Echidna, a half-woman, half-serpent drakaina which consorted with the giant Typhoeus.

Description

Father: Crius (1st generation Titan)

Mother: Gaia (primordial deity)

Race: 1/2 Titan, 1/2 Earth Giant = Drakaina (or Drakon) Monster

Python was a monstrous dragon-serpent set by Gaia (the Earth) to guard the sacred oracle of Delphi.

According to some the creature was born from the rotting slime left behind by the Great Deluge.

When the god Apollon laid claim to the shrine, he slew Python with a volley of a hundred arrows.

The oracle and festival of Delphoi were afterwards named Pytho and Pythian from the rotting (pythô) corpse of the beast.

Some say Apollon slew the monster to avenge his mother Leto who had been relentlessly pursued by the dragon during her long pregnancy

.
Python was variously described as a male or female Drakon.

The Homeric Hymn to Apollo--and some ancient Greek art--equates her with Echidna, a half-woman, half-serpent drakaina which consorted with the giant Typhoeus.