myths of Greece

It is interesting that the Greeks also believed that they were all descendants of one ancestor, the "ancestor of the Greeks" and called - Hellen. He was allegedly the son of Deucalion and Pyrrhus, people who escaped the Flood (the Greeks also had the myth of the Flood). From the sons and grandsons of the Hellenes traced their lineage to certain Greek tribes - Aeolians, Dorians, Achaeans, Ionians. by the way, the Hellenic homeland myths called the north of Thessaly, or shifted even further north - to Pieria. Where the famous Mount Olympus rises. When in legends the heroes of Greece, and often the gods, destroy the lairs of snakes or dragons, in Greek mythology, they are not very different, as the information in the myths is symbolic, perhaps in fact it is the destruction of ancient shrines, places of worship, alien to aliens , in which locals worshiped serpents and serpent deities. It is significant that the religious rituals in these primitive temples were performed by women who were called priestesses,
However, it was not always just about destruction. Sometimes the Greeks tried to rethink the beliefs of their predecessors and even combine them with the worship of the Olympian gods. Thus, in the Delphic oracle, which is located in Delphi, at the foot of Mount Parnassus, there has long been a sanctuary of Python - in myths, this deity has the appearance of a terrible snake. Python's priestess, the Pythian, miraculously became the prophetess of the alien god Apollo, whose place of worship was Delphi.