[Python-Dev] OT: World's oldest ritual discovered. Worshipped the python 70, 000 years ago

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Sat Dec 2 14:02:13 CET 2006


Talin wrote:
> Oleg Broytmann wrote:
>> http://www.apollon.uio.no/vis/art/2006_4/Artikler/python_english
>> 
>>    (-:
>> 
>> Oleg.
> 
> I noticed the other day that the word "Pythonic" means "Prophetic", 
> according to Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition:
> 
>    Py*thon"ic (?), a. [L. pythonicus, Gr. . See Pythian.] Prophetic;
>    oracular; pretending to foretell events.

Surely it is. The PSU once used the time machine to travel to Ancient
Greece and gave the Delphi priestess her name, along with a schoolbook
about ancient histo



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