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The " Theoxenia " was held each summer, centred on a feast for " gods and ambassadors from other states ".

Myths indicate that Apollo killed the chthonic serpent Python, Pythia in older myths, but according to some later accounts his wife, Pythia, who lived beside the Castalian Spring.

According to some because Python had attempted to rape Leto while she was pregnant with Apollo and Artemis.

The bodies of the pair were draped around his Rod, which with the wings created the caduceus symbolic of the god.