According to the myth, the Python was a snake which forbade access to the chasm whence rose the mysterious fumes of divination.
On the whole, it seems impossible to get a clear view of Apollo as a sun-god from a legend built out of so many varied materials of different dates as the myth of the slaying of the Python and the founding of the Delphic oracle.
Whether the legend of the slaying of the Python was or was not originally an allegory of the defeat of winter by sunlight, it certainly at a very early period became mixed up with ancient legal ideas and local traditions.
Then on the days following, in proportion as she allowed herself to be convinced, and was more disposed to succour Tanith, the python recovered and grew; he seemed to be reviving.
The python of the temple of Eschmoun lay on the ground amid pools of pink oil in the space enclosed by the tables, and, biting its tail, described a large black circle.
Meanwhile the python had become ill again; and as Salammbo, on the contrary, appeared to be recovering, old Taanach rejoiced in the conviction that by its decline it was taking away the languor of her mistress.
I had an Aunt in Yucatan Who bought a Python from a man And kept it for a pet.
So far as I know thepython is the only snake which incubates its eggs.
After the buck has been drowned the python coils itself around the body and crushes it for convenience in the process of swallowing.
The python usually preys upon small animals, such as minor antelopes, monkeys, conies, and birds.
A famous python is the six-foot, tree-dwelling carpet snake of Australia, black, beautifully marked with a pattern of yellow dots.
The python does not regard the horns, which sometimes may be seen sticking out through the abdomen.
A very large species is the reticulatedpython of Indo-China and the Malayan region, having an arrangement of dark lozenges on a lighter ground.
This (Python molurus) is the one most often seen in zoological collections on account of its hardiness; but it is a savage creature, almost untamable.
You may still see the trophy in the Davao Club, its scaly length stretched along the molding on two sides of the library, where the Major asked Lindsey to place it with this legend: This python attacked Major John Bronner, P.
It might have been a big pythonlying at the bottom of the hole, and concluding it had lain there long enough came up, when the sight of us scared it down again.
As Hampstead descended the stairs upon this strange, moving picture, it appeared to him to organize into a ferocious, misshapen monster that meant him harm; or a python coiling and uncoiling its gigantic, menacing folds.
For one instant she felt this embrace tighten into a python grip that was terrifying.
The python lived in a cave on Mount Parnassus and there Apollo slew him.
The python was a monstrous serpent which arose from the mud left after the flood in which Deucalion survived.
See also Pythons Python clan, a python expected to visit every newborn child of the, viii.
Python at Delphi, the Pythian games celebrated in his honour, iv.
Then, one morning, bright and early, I came on the bigpython in the act of swallowing a baby antelope.
And among other items," says I, "that we've invoiced for Sydney is a python thirty feet long.
This annihilation of Python is, of course, nothing but an allegory, illustrating the sun's power to dry up marshes and stagnant pools, thus preventing the lurking fiend malaria from making further inroads.
The victory over the terrible Python won for Apollo the surname of Pytheus (the Slayer), by which appellation he was frequently invoked.
The Pythonof the Sunda Islands, called by the natives Ular-Sawa, attains the length of fully thirty feet.
The principal African species of this genus are, the Python of Seba, of Central Africa, and the Royal Python of Senegambia.
The species peculiar to Asiatic climes is the Python Molure, a native of the Indian Peninsula, and of the islands of Java and Sumatra.
Beneath one of these trees, in a stout cage of bamboo, was the biggest python I ever saw.
The striking photograph we next reproduce was taken in the Zoo at Perth, Western Australia, and shows a python which endeavoured to dine not wisely but too well.
The fame of the Pythian oracle at Delphi, connected with the slaying of Python by the god immediately after his birth, gave especial prominence to the idea of Apollo as a god of prophecy.
Possibly at Delphi and other places there was an old serpent-worship ousted by that of Apollo, which may account for expiation for the slaying of Python being considered necessary.
Little dreamt he that thousands of years later it would stand as a parable, representing civilization in the form of the python which he had carved with such loathing yet such loving care.
His gaze was fixed on hers, and he held her with his eyes as the cat holds the bird or the python the man.
Then Apollo with his silver bow in his hands went up towards the place where the Python lay.
The Python saw that his foe was no common man, and turned to flee.
Footnote 10: Unless the Python be, rather, the Demon of Putrefaction, as in Iranian belief.
Illustration] [Illustration] I had an aunt in Yucatan Who bought a Pythonfrom a man And kept it for a pet.
As the worm of corruption, it is the mightiest of all adversaries of the gods--the special adversary of their light and creative power--Python against Apollo.
Lamare Picquot, and by observations on other species of Python in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, and in the London Zoological Gardens.
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