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Who is Pythagoras? What is Python?

Pythagoras: (ca. 582 - ca. 507 BC) A pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who settled in Crotona, Italy, where he founded a mystery society. Phythagorean teachings include reincarnation and the ultimate reality of numbers as the basis of all things. The Pythagorean theorem in geometry is a token of their achievement in that field.

Python: (Greek) The “spirit of divination,” from Pytho, the location at Delphi where the priestess of Apollo called the “pythoness” delivered oracles.
Quoted from the page 604 of the book The Letters of H.P. Blavatsky, Volume One by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Pythagoras, Incarnation of the Serpent

The Return of the Serpents of Wisdom

The greatest of the Orphic and Dactyloi initiates was Pythagoras, a wizard and hierophant whose name means “I am the Python” or “I am the Serpent.” Pythagoras was an incarnation of the Primal Serpent which took birth to synthesize and reform the mystery traditions scattered throughout the ancient world.

During his upbringing upon the Island of Samos, Pythagoras was exposed to many of the most ancient mystery teachings of the Serpent Goddess. Having been born into a Pelasgian home he was surrounded by the wisdom of the first colonist of the Aegean, some of whom had arrived directly from Atlantis. Pythagoras also came into contact with numerous Orphic priests on the island and through them learned some of the ancient wisdom of the Dactyloi and Djedhi.

Upon reaching a mature age Pythagoras set out across Europe, Asia and Africa to fulfill his destiny. He is reputed to have first traveled to the western headquarters of the Serpents of Wisdom in Egypt where he spent twenty two years studying with the most renown priests of Memphis, Heliopolis, and Thebes. The culmination of his pivotal time in Khem was initiation within the Great Pyramid, at which point he became a Djedhi and high ranking member of the worldwide Order of Serpents. Leaving Egypt, Pythagoras traveled to Samothrace, Crete, and Elusis where he gained initiation into the Dactyloi Order as well as all diverse branches of the Aegean mystery academy. Then, traveling in an eastward direction, Pythagoras earned initiation into the Chaldean rites of the Ashipu, the Phoenician rites of Adonis, the mysteries of the Persian Magi and the yogic disciplines of the Hindus. Legend has it that in India, where he was known as Yavancharya, Pythagoras achieved his final initiations in the cave temples of Elephanta, Ellora and Ajanta, subterranean caverns which supposedly connected to a network of tunnels leading to eastern headquarters of the Serpents in Tibet.

Returning hom to the Mediterranean area, Pythagoras founded his synthesized mystery school in Crotona, Southern Italy, and quickly procured for himself a reputation as an incarnation of the Serpent’s power and wisdom. Among his new Italian peers it became common knowledge that Pythagoras was capable of controlling the weather, prophesying the future, and even raising the dead. Among his students Pythagoras garnered the additional denomination of hard task master. A candidate seeking initiation into his school was first required to undergo an austere probationary period of five years during which absolute silence was observed punctuated with a sparse vegetarian diet devoid of beans.
Quoted from the page 218 of book The Return of the Serpents of Wisdom by Mark Amaru Pinkham

Three Degrees of the Pythagoras’ School

Theosophical Quarterly Magazine 1907

In the inner school there were three degrees. The first of Hearers, who studied two years in silence, doing their best to master the teaching; the second degree was of Mathematici, including the study of geometry, music, and the nature of number, form, color, and sound; the third degree was of Physici, who mastered cosmogony and metaphysics. This led up to the true mysteries. The candidates for the school had to be of an unblemished character and of a contented disposition.
Quoted from the page 208 of the book Theosophical Quarterly Magazine 1907 by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

I am the Python

Isis Unveiled: 2 Volume set

^[…] Pythagoras, who, as we know, never allowed his neophytes to see him during the years of probation, but instructed them from behind a curtain in his cave.
Quoted from the page 208 of the book Isis Unveiled: 2 Volume set by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Monty Python

Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life [HD DVD]

After all these Python information, it’s impossible to not reminded that legendary Monty Python. It’s easy to see the meaning of python but what about Monty?

Until about 1914 children in Monmouthshire, Chepstow, and villages of the Wye Valley used to go from house to house early on New Year’s Day carrying ‘a monty’, which was an apple or orange standing on three sticks and decorated with holly or box leaves, nuts, tinsel, raisins, etc. In return for a few pence they would display this ‘for luck’, chanting:

Monty, Monty, Happy New Year,
A pocket full of money and a cellar full of beer!

Round St Briavels (Gloucestershire), they were still seen in 1950.

Plus…
In French, Monty is a topographic name for a mountain dweller.
Source: Answers.com

An apple standing on three sticks… Interesting. Three sticks reminded me the Holy Trinity. When apple word has been used with one of these words: python, snake or serpent, automatically the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil appears in my mind. And also we have a mountain dweller! Long live Monty Python.