Why this word is great
PYTHIAN — [Adjective] Of or relating to Delphi or to its priestess, Pythia. From Latin Pythius, from Ancient Greek πύθιος (púthios, "belonging to Pytho," the older name of Delphi and its environs). Unlike "Delphic" (which evokes the oracle’s riddles) or "Olympian" (which suggests celestial remove), "Pythian" is earthbound, rooted in the chthonic—the hiss of the sacred serpent, the laurel-chewing priestess shuddering on her tripod, the sulfurous breath of the cleft where the earth spoke. It is the smell of damp stone in the temple’s shadow, the weight of a question too heavy for mortal shoulders, and the terrible intimacy of a god who answers, but never plainly. Prophecy here is not clarity, but dissolution.