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CITY LEGENDS

Created by Kornelia MAGIERA
Last updated by MARIA STALIA 9 months 1 week ago

1. A Polish legend set in the city of Toruń and explaing why it is famous for its gingerbread biscuits:

2. Legends of Bucharest-   THE BEGINNINGS OF BUCHAREST

 

3. Slovenian city legend: THE LEGEND OF THE DRAGON OF KLAGENFURT

4. Spanish city legend

By Tatiana González Castro- Los Pericones School

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Delphi – Apollo and Python : a Greek legend

the most important oracle of the ancient world

Before being given the name that has become an international landmark, Delphi was known as Pytho, after the fearsome dragon-serpent that lived there, called Python. In a fit of jealously against fellow goddess Leto, who had fallen pregnant to Zeus before her marriage to the king of the gods, Hera sent Python to chase Leto so that she would not give birth to twins Apollo and Artemis. When Apollo grew up, he killed Python with his poisoned arrows, despite murder being forbidden by divine law in the precinct in which the dragon lived. Apollo was banished by Zeus to the mythical Land of the Far North.

When he returned, he founded his own temple and oracle in Pytho and, in memory of the slain dragon, the sanctuary’s high priestess was called Pythia. Delphi’s Temple of Apollo became the most important oracle of the ancient world, offering prophecies nine times a year, during the months that Apollo was present. 

Delphi: the legend