❣ Biblical origin @ Book of Esther: It relates the story of a Hebrew woman in Persia, born as Hadassah but known as Esther, who becomes queen of Persia and thwarts a genocide of her people.
❣ Misc. Meaning: the name Hadassah represents righteousness and, as such, it corresponds to a heavenly sphere representing God’s infinity & the name Esther is derived from the Hebrew word hester, which means hiddenness and corresponds to a spiritual plane representing hidden Godliness. A righteous woman, Queen Ester brought Godliness down into the physical world, where Godliness is concealed.
❣ i imagine this has to be important. maybe. like, names are super fucken important and shit. (┛ಠ_ಠ)┛彡┻━┻.

❣ Researched: Greek Mythology, a god damn metric fuckton (ಥ﹏ಥ).
❣ Python is the serpent living at the center of the Earth, believed by the ancient Greeks to be at Delphi, aaaah!!!

Delphi, formally known as Pytho, is famous as the ancient sanctuary that grew rich as the seat of Pythia, the Oracle who was consulted about important decisions throughout the ancient classical world. Ancient Greeks considered the centre of the world to be in Delphi, marked by the stone monument known as the omphalos ( navel ).

❣ She guarded the and presided at the Delphic Oracle, sending prophocies to the oracle priestess and inspiring her magical visions.
❣ Python became the chthonic enemy of the later Olympian deity Apollo, who slew her, buried her beneath the temple, took her oracle, and then used her power for his own gain.
❣ iiiinteresting. not sure if all of this actually happened, because, like, she's right here... but death doesn't seem to mean dick, so who the fuck knows. but also we're all in hell, so there's that to consider.

❣ ffffffffffuck（☝ ՞ਊ ՞）☝ just kill me now.
❣ Apollo is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in classical Greek mythology. He has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and light, poetry, and more. He's also seen as the most beautiful and ideal god.
❣ As the patron of Delphi, Apollo is an oracular god — the prophetic deity of the Delphic Oracle.
❣ However, Apollo had committed a blood murder, ( killing Python ) and had to be purified. Because Python was a child of Gaea ( Mother Earth ), Gaea wanted Apollo to be banished to Tartarus as a punishment. Zeus didn't agree and instead exiled his son from Olympus, and instructed him to get purified. Apollo had to serve as a slave for nine years. After the servitude was over, as per his father's order, Apollo travelled to the Vale of Tempe to bath in waters of Peneus. There Zeus himself performed purification rites on Apollo. Purified, Apollo was escorted by his half sister Athena to Delphi where the oracular shrine was finally handed over to him by Gaea.
❣ Apollo needed to recruit people to Delphi. Jumped a boat as a dolphin ( wut ), he initiating them to his service and instructed them to keep righteousness in their hearts. The Pythia was Apollo's high priestess and his mouthpiece through whom he gave prophecies. Pythia is arguably the constant favorite of Apollo among the mortals. no wonder she probably wants on that dick.

❣ Oracle of Delphi, aka the Messenger. could she be a snake demon too, like hadassah 🐍
❣ Researched: Greek Mythology 2: Electric Boogaloo
❣ Apollo spoke through his oracle. She had to be an older woman of blameless life chosen from among the peasants of the area. Alone in an enclosed inner sanctum, she sat on a tripod seat over an opening in the earth ( the chasm ).
❣ According to legend, when Apollo slew Python her body fell into this fissure and fumes arose from her decomposing body. Intoxicated by the vapours, the sibyl would fall into a trance, allowing Apollo to possess her spirit. In this state she prophesied. there are other ways to have visions.
❣ While in a trance the Pythia " raved " – probably a form of ecstatic speech – and her ravings were " translated " by the priests of the temple into elegant hexameters*.
❣ Misc. Meaning: the Greeks derived the name from the verb, púthein ( to rot ), which refers to the sickly sweet smell of the decomposition of the body of the monstrous Python after she was slain by Apollo.
❣ Neo-Heaven Rumor Mill - izzit tru... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ FUK IF I KNO!

Pythia still serves Apollo, the real God she's always served rather than the pretender who stole his heavenly throne and silenced his voice.
Pythia is the last of the Priestesses of Apollo & the Oracle at Delphi. She is the Last of the Pythia, and when her God ( Apollo ) was silenced and no longer had a use for her, it turned out Hell still did.
Angels that defected during Heaven's siege would not be harmed, but welcomed into Hell with open arms, but if they tried to fight they'd be killed. No official numbers, but Pythia's demons take the form of angels because they hide actual angels amongst their number, making good camouflage for those who fled.
God ( the pretender, presumably ) told her to serve hell, so she could bring about the true rebirth of Heaven.
Most inhabitants ( damned & demons ) are devout religious nuts... but the territory has apparently changed over time, something they all seem to attest to being a direct result of their devotion and God's acceptance of it. Examples of which being the stained glass, the pews, and the servitors of the Oracle growing feathered wings.

❣ there are about half a dozen reasons i find all of this ironic forrrr reasons.
@ Hadassah's: There's a long moment, entering Hadassah's apartment, when everything looks disarmingly normal. Richly furnished, yes—dark walls accented in gold and painted with murals that depict flowers and fruit (pomegranates, split figs, branches of olives) entwined with serpents; chaise lounges and deep-cushioned chairs upholstered in wine red velvet; a mantle over a vast fireplace, hung with actual branches of olives; the fireplace itself, in which sticks of incense are slowly burning, filling the room with the gentle haze of spiced smoke—but all of it is within the bounds of the real. From somewhere in another room comes the slightly staticky sound of an Édith Piaf record playing. ❴.mp4❵

❣ I said ❰ tell me I'm special ❱ and then she said ❰ special girl, don't you know how long it's been since I've had an oracle? ❱ and then ███ █████████ ██ █████.

Clad in the earth she lay screaming in searing pain while all her flesh rends.
Light pours through the cracks and she's gone, but not; whole pieces, still herself.
Shed skin held in her hands with the blood, then the serpent is two... both distinct.
Blood and flesh is the price paid, jewel like snake in the other's hand.

❣ Hexameter*. Classic Fucken Hexameter. i kinda thought i had been speaking in tongues or something. ok. not really. but i get it now.
❣ According to Greek mythology, hexameter was invented by Phemonoe, daughter of Apollo, and the first Pythia of Delphi.
❣ Hexameter is a metrical line of verses consisting of six feet, and the rules are as follows: ■ a foot can be made up of two long syllables ( -- ), a spondee; or a long and two short syllables, a dactly ( -uu ). ■ the first four feet can contain either one of them. ■ the fifth is almost always a dactyl, and the last must be a spondee.
❣ i picked apart the stuff i had said and it looks like it's a specific sort of hexameter... dactylic, to be exact. homer ( author of the illid and the odyssey ) made this dialect famous, and the homeric hymns employ the same epic meter, paying homage. the thing about them is they're a collecting of a bunch of anonymous hymns celebrating individual gods, so this is kind of where these 'prophecies' were written down it seems.

❣ Here are just a couple of questions and answers that came up throughout our conversation that I thought seemed kind of important or something... IDK.
^α. 🐇What do you want?.
🐍 Isn't it obvious? I want Heaven.
^β. 🐇 God is gone, no, so it's ripe for the taking.
🐍 But is God really gone, though? Isn’t it better to say that God is found instead in the hearts of true believers? Does God make faith, or does faith make God?
^γ.🐇 Do I get your number this time, or ████ █ █████ ███ ██ █████████?
🐍 —Still, you really are better off waiting for me to get in touch with you: whatever you may have heard, those Imeeji productions phones of yours can only dial out to others of the same model. Other idols' phones, that is. #friendzoned (T⌓T)

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