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Trophonius Swallowed by the Earth

OriginGreek Mythology

Trophonius was a legendary architect who, alongside his brother Agamedes, built great structures including the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. After a daring theft from a royal treasury went wrong, Trophonius fled to the grove of Lebadeia where the earth miraculously swallowed him alive. He was thereafter transformed into a chthonic deity and established a famous, terrifying oracle in a...