Editing Typhon (section)

===Python===
Typhon's story seems related to that of another monstrous offspring of Gaia: [[Python (mythology)|Python]], the serpent killed by [[Apollo]] at [[Delphi]],<ref>For a discussion of Python, see Ogden 2013a, [https://books.google.com/books?id=FQ2pAK9luwkC&pg=PA40 pp. 40–48]; Fontenrose, especially [https://books.google.com/books?id=wqeVv09Y6hIC&pg=PA13 pp. 13–22]. For Python's parentage, see Fontenrose, [https://books.google.com/books?id=wqeVv09Y6hIC&pg=PA47 p. 47]; [[Euripides]], ''[[Iphigenia in Tauris]] '' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg013.perseus-eng1:1234-1258 1244–1248]; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' [http://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae4.html#152 152]; [[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0959.phi006.perseus-eng1:1.416-1.451 1.434–438].</ref> suggesting a possible common origin.<ref>Fontenrose, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=wqeVv09Y6hIC&pg=PA77 77, with n. 1],  [https://books.google.com/books?id=wqeVv09Y6hIC&pg=PA193 193]; Watkins, [https://books.google.com/books?id=JrvnCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA462 p. 462].</ref>
Besides the similarity of names, their shared parentage, and the fact that both were snaky monsters killed in single combat with an Olympian god, there are other connections between the stories surrounding Typhon, and those surrounding [[Python (mythology)|Python]].<ref>For an extensive discussion of the similarities, see Fontenrose, [https://books.google.com/books?id=wqeVv09Y6hIC&pg=PA77 pp. 77–93]; see also Kerenyi, pp. 26–28, 136.</ref>

Although the Delphic monster killed by [[Apollo]] is usually said to be the male serpent Python, in the ''Homeric Hymn to Apollo'', the earliest account of this story, the god kills a nameless she-serpent (''[[Drakaina (mythology)|drakaina]]''), subsequently called [[Delphyne]], who had been Typhon's foster-mother.<ref>''Hymn to Apollo'' (3) [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0138%3Ahymn%3D3%3Acard%3D267 300–306], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0138%3Ahymn%3D3%3Acard%3D349 349–369]; Ogden 2013a, [https://books.google.com/books?id=FQ2pAK9luwkC&pg=PA40 pp. 40 ff.]; Gantz, p. 88; Fontenrose, [https://books.google.com/books?id=wqeVv09Y6hIC&pg=PA14 pp. 14–15]; [https://books.google.com/books?id=wqeVv09Y6hIC&pg=PA94 p. 94]. [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.6.3 1.6.3], for example, calls her Delphyne.</ref> Delphyne and Echidna, besides both being intimately connected to Typhon—one as mother, the other as mate—share other similarities.<ref>Fontenrose, [https://books.google.com/books?id=wqeVv09Y6hIC&pg=PA94 pp. 94–97] argues that Echidna and Delphyne (along with Ceto and possibly Scylla) were different names for the same creature.</ref> Both were half-maid and half-snake,<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.6.3 1.6.3] calls Delphyne both a ''drakaina'' and a "half-bestial maiden"; see Ogden 2013a, p. 44, Fontenrose, [https://books.google.com/books?id=wqeVv09Y6hIC&pg=PA95 p. 95].</ref> a plague to men,<ref>''Hymn to Apollo'' (3) [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0138%3Ahymn%3D3%3Acard%3D267 300–304]; see Fontenrose, [https://books.google.com/books?id=wqeVv09Y6hIC&pg=PA14 p. 14].</ref> and associated with the Corycian cave in Cilicia.<ref>According to [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.6.3 1.6.3], Typhon set Delphyne as guard over Zeus' severed sinews in the Corycian cave; see Ogden, 2013a, [https://books.google.com/books?id=FQ2pAK9luwkC&pg=PA42 p. 42]; Fontenrose, [https://books.google.com/books?id=wqeVv09Y6hIC&pg=PA94 p. 94].</ref>

Python was also perhaps connected with a different [[Corycian Cave]] than the one in Cilicia, this one on the slopes of [[Parnassus]] above Delphi, and just as the Corycian cave in Cilicia was thought to be Typhon and Echidna's lair, and associated with Typhon's battle with Zeus, there is evidence to suggest that the Corycian cave above Delphi was supposed to be Python's (or Delphyne's) lair, and associated with his (or her) battle with Apollo.<ref>Fontenrose, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=wqeVv09Y6hIC&pg=PA78 78]; [https://books.google.com/books?id=wqeVv09Y6hIC&pg=PA407 407–412].</ref>