in to shoot a flaming arrow at the serpent. When he shot Python the serpent fled to the cave of mother earth at Delphi, considered to be a sacred place, where all fighting had to cease, by gods and man alike. Apollo could not follow the snake into the cave, so he shot a smoking arrow into the cave to smoke Python out. When the serpent exited the cave Apollo shot him full of arrows and skinned him. Apollo defiled the sacred ground by doing this making Mother Earth angry. To make up for his misdeed he created the annual Python Games, which were really a way of glorifying himself. He also created the Delphic Or
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