Apollo conflated. A female dragon named Delphyne (; cf. , "womb"), and a male serpent Typhon (; from , "to smoke"), the adversary of Zeus in the Titanomachy, who the narrators confused with Python. Python was the good daemon (ἀγαθὸς δαίμων) of the temple as it appears in Minoan religion, but she was represented as a dragon, as often happens in Northern European folklore as well as in the East. Apollo and his sister Artemis can bring death with their arrows. The conception that diseases and death come from invisible shots sent by supernatural beings, or magicians is common in Germanic
Serpent Lord serpent"), while plainly referring to the standard, is sometimes understood by some fans to also refer to the leader of the Haradrim himself. Tolkien only calls the leader a "chieftain". Thus the title is not considered canonical by many fans. This alternative interpretation may be justified because Théoden may not have been proud of having killed the banner-bearer so much as having killed the enemy leader himself. Another interpretation has Théoden speaking figuratively; by "felling the black serpent", he not only cut down the black serpent standard but defeated the horsemen of Harad, at least temporarily. In Games Workshop's game,