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| | Apollo |
 | | His attributes are the bow and arrows, on his head a laurel crown, and the cithara (or lyre) and plectrum. |
 | | However, to make amends for killing Python, as the fearsome beast was the son of Gaia, Apollo had to serve king Admetus for nine years (in some versions eight) as a cowherd. |
 | | This he did, and when he returned to Pytho he came in the guise of a dolphin bringing with him priests from Crete (Apollo's cult title "Delphinios" meaning dolphin or porpoise, is probably how Delphi was so named). |
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