Visiting the Delphic Oracle
Delphi is an amazingly beautiful and sacred place near Athens, the capital of Greece. This ancient city is the national religious center of Greek culture and a unique historical and cultural monument included in the list of World Cultural Heritage Sites.
It was in Delphi during their existence before our era that the Pythian Games were held, dedicated to the god of light and the patron saint of the arts, Apollo, and held once every eight years, and since 586 BC four times a year. At first, it was just a competition of musicians performing songs and hymns accompanied by kithara music. Then horse riding competitions, chariot races, and athletic competitions were added.
In the period from the VI-IV centuries BC, the famous temple of Apollo was built here, to which a well-trodden road led. Along the road towered the treasuries of the Scythians, built in 525 BC, and the Athenians, erected in 475 BC to store gifts offered by visitors to the radiant god. In addition, the slope of the Parnassus mountain range is decorated with an ancient amphitheater of the II century BC and a stadium.
The name of the place literally translates from Greek as "womb", "womb", which is explained by the ancient Greek myth about the battle of Apollo with the serpent Python, sent by the Hero to avenge Latona, the mother of Apollo, for the betrayal of Zeus. When Python crawled out of a cave in the Delphi Mountains to fight the golden-haired god, he was literally shot by a hail of divine arrows from Apollo, which did not miss. The dead Python still rests in the bowels of Gaia near Delphi, exuding its fetid vapor from the crevice. Apollo made the sailors from the Cretan ship brought to this place the first priests of the sanctuary. Then their place in the temple was taken by the harbingers-pythia – priestesses of Apollo. It was to the temple of Apollo that those eager for divination were drawn, among whom were the Assyrian king Xerxes, Artaxerxes, the Roman commander and Emperor Julius Caesar, and others.
The second version of the meaning of the place's name is related to the translation of the word "dolphin" - "newborn". Perhaps this is explained by the myth of the "navel of the earth", which is located in Delphi and is an elongated vertically rounded omphalos stone. According to the myth, it was guarded by Gorgons. One day Zeus decided to determine the location of the center of the earth and launched two eagles towards each other. The omphalos was installed at their meeting place.
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