Pythoness : Python was a dragon who guarded Delphi & was killed by Apollo when he established his oracle there.
... darkness, His plan is a chaos. Who shall foretell the event of a battle, the fall of a footstep? Oracles, visions and prophecies voice but the dreams of the mortal, And 'tis our spirit within is the Pythoness tortured in Delphi. Heavenly voices to us are a silence, those colours a whiteness. Neither the thought of the statesman prevails nor the dream of the prophet, Whether one cry, 'Thus devise and... Love grow fickle and fretful; Even as a child that is scared in the night, he shall shake in his chambers. Yet shall a portion be kept for these, Ares and white Aphrodite. Thou whom already thy Pythoness bears not, torn by thy advent, Caverned already who sittest in Delphi knowing thy future, What wilt thou do with the veil and the night, O burning Apollo?" Then from the orb of his glory unbearable ...
... another sun, another moon, other lightnings than ours. To this the poet and the artist aspire in the intoxication of the vision and the hearing, chakshush cha shrotran cha; from this the prophet & the Pythoness draw the exaltation of their inspiration or its frenzy; genius is a beggar at the doors of that bounty. But all these are like men that dream and utter ill-understood fragments of their dream. For ...
... fickle and fretful; Even as a child that is scared in the night, he shall shake in his chambers. Yet shall a portion be kept for these, Ares and white Aphrodite. Thou whom already thy Pythoness bears not, torn by thy advent, Caverned already who sittest in Delphi knowing thy future, What wilt thou do with the veil and the night, O burning Apollo," Then from the orb of his glory ...
... abysm of the unbodied Infinite... 2 There is a shower of diction evoking the deep, impenetrable, lethargic, sombre, incomprehensible night. Inconscient matter lies inert, like a coiled pythoness of a woman: Its formless stupor without mind or life.... 3 But in this seemingly 'fathomless zero' lie nevertheless the germs of immortal life. The banian tree waxes immense ...
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