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Virgil Solis - Apollo Python

Apollo slays the Elder Python

The "Elder Python" (Πυθων) is the monster that occupied Delphi. Apollo shot it with his arrows and constructed his oracle in the place where he killed the Python.

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Gaia

Modern Culture

The Elder Python is mentioned in "The Hidden Oracle" as having taken back the Oracle of Delphi (the oracle which Apollo took over by slaying the Elder Python).

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