The Septeries (Σεπτήριον / Septerion) are one of three specifically Delphic festivities described by Plutarch (with Herois and Charila festivals). They were held every eight or nine years. A cabin was being built and some men brought a child whose parents were still alive. They came out without turning around and flipping the table. Finally the cabin was set on fire and the child went out and ran towards the Tempé valley to be purified.

According to the legend it was to commemorate the fight of the god Apollo against the snake Python and the god's escape to Tempe. Plutarch thought that the Septoria had originally nothing to do with the myth of Apollo. This one would have been "hung up" only towards the IV century BC. At the feast. According to Plutarch, the primitive rite was related to a former tyrannical ruler and the cabin symbolized his home. Sourceschange the code

Plutarch, Moral Works [detail of editions] [read online] (IV-18: Quaestiones Graecae 293B-E / 12); (V-26: Defective Oraculorum 417F-18B / 15)

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