A brief description of Hymn to Pythian Apollo by Cynaethus (Kynaithos) of Chios
             Phoebus Apollo is traveling around Greece looking for a suitable place to found his temple when he came upon the nymph Telphusa . Telphusa was the guardian of a beautiful stream and didn't want Apollo to build his temple next to her stream and so convinced him that another place would be better to build . Later in the story Apollo returns to Telophase's stream , angry at being fooled into building at Delphi and not at Telphusa beautiful stream . Apollo pushes over a mountain and a rock slide which covered over the stream belonging to Telphusa . Apollo also sets up temple where the people pray to him as Telphsaiani in a shaded grove
             Apollo then went to Pytho (Delphi), where he battles and kills the "she-dragon" Python before laying the foundations for his temple . At this point in the hymn the story of Zeus , Hera and Typhaon is introduced as a side issue/anecdote to help explain the significance of Python . Hera, angry at Zeus for giving birth to Athena without her, decides to give birth without the help of her husband to Typhaon . When Typhaon was born, Hera gives him into the safe keeping of Python until Zeus battles with Typhaon, and in defeating him, places him under Mt Etna .
             Apollo is thinking over who will be his priests for this new temple when he sees a ship on the ocean . The ship from is from Minoan Cnossos and is manned by Cretan sailors who were sailing to Pylos . Diving into the sea, Apollo takes on the shape of a Dolphin, then jumps from the water into the ship of the Minoan sailors . The sailors were compelled by the vision of Apollo to stay in there ship and sail with the Dolphin thrashing about, North along the coast of Greece until they reached Crisa .
             Apollo, still in the shape of a Dolphin jumps from the ship and enters the shrine . Returning to the sailors in the shape of a man, Apollo invites the sa...