In the bright sunlight Apollo squinted and as he pulled his bow calmly tensed his muscles. Until Python’s blood was spilled and in the thin air his life escaped one after another he released his arrows.
Sanctuary of Delphi
The oracle of Delphi as the reputation grew, as the Greek city states brought offerings into an international center the sanctuary began to develop. Through the eye of a needle of a camel was like the proverbial passing a trip to Delphi, and it was before the age of tour buses and paved highways remember that, there were mountain paths which were difficult to pass or from the valley below climbing was the way. It developed into an independent state as the area grew in wealth by the aristocrats which was governed. Called the Amphictyonia which is a 12 member federation it became the center which unified the small city states was like a sort of League of Nations. As it most likely was three thousand years ago as awe-inspiring are the town and ancient site built on the slopes of the Mount Parnassos, the Gulf of Corinth overlooking and filled with cypress and olive trees a valley. On the edge of a cliff the town of Delphi sits and the tourism and the abundance of the businesses which are tourism related despite the number of tourist, this is to be a very remarkable place still today. There are plentiful hotels and within a few kilometers of the town there are two campgrounds and including the Taverna Vlachos numerous restaurants at a reasonable prices as well as a beautiful view featuring of the valley.
On the southern tip of the mountain slope the sanctuary of the Apollo is the center of the Delphi. The home of the Pythia was the Doric temple, above a deep crevasse who seated on a tripod, while the priest wrote them down would pronounce her prophesies and to the people translated them. That is the Mythology, when Python slew by the Apollo, into this fissure its body fell and from its decomposing body fumes arose. By these fumes intoxicated, into a trance the pythia (Sibyl) would go, to passes her spoke and spirit allowing Apollo, what she was saying with the priests interpreting or translating. In the fourth century BC by the fire this temple was destroyed and rebuilt then. Three phrases were carved into the temple, “make a pledge and mischief is nigh”, “nothing in excess” and “know thyself” about the meaning of the first many people confused though those were written in the past but still meaningful today. One or more of the Seven Sages of the Greece was attributed the origin of these phrases though about these there are some debates and at the time these were just popular proverbs some believe that and to the Sages of Greece were later attributed.
In the fourth century was also built the theater and is the large stadium further above, for its chariot races it was famous, by Herod Atticus renovated and in all Greece considered as the best preserved.
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