Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Archaeological Site of Delphi' has mentioned 'Earth' in the following places:
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The third, as described by Pindar, was created by the gods Hephaestus and Athena, but its architectural details included Siren-like figures or "Enchantresses", whose baneful songs eventually provoked the Olympian gods to bury the temple in the earth (according to Pausanias, it was destroyed by earthquake and fire). | WIKI |
But the sons of Cronus Opened the earth with a thunderbolt And hid the holiest of all things made. | WIKI |
Vulva of the Earth, with the two Phaedriades above like breasts. | WIKI |
Zeus determined the site of Delphi when he sought to find the centre of his "Grandmother Earth" (Gaia). | WIKI |
Apollo was said to have slain Python, a drako (a male serpent or a dragon) who lived there and protected the navel of the Earth. | WIKI |
Alone in an enclosed inner sanctum (Ancient Greek adyton xe2x80x93 "do not enter") she sat on a tripod seat over an opening in the earth (the "chasm"). | WIKI |
Erwin Rohde wrote that the Python was an earth spirit, who was conquered by Apollo, and buried under the omphalos, and that it is a case of one deity setting up a temple on the grave of another. | WIKI |
Delphi would have been a renowned city regardless of whether it hosted these games; it had other attractions that led to it being labeled the "omphalos" (navel) of the earth, in other words, the centre of the world. | WIKI |
Criterion (vi): According to the ancients, the Temple of Apollo was where the Omphalos was located, that is, the navel of the universe, the centre of the earth. | UNESCO |