Typhon those surrounding Python. Although the Delphic monster killed by Apollo is usually said to be the male serpent Python, in the "Homeric Hymn to Apollo", the earliest account of this story, the god kills a nameless she-serpent ("drakaina"), subsequently called Delphyne, who had been Typhon's foster-mother. Delphyne and Echidna, besides both being intimately connected to Typhon—one as mother, the other as mate—share other similarities. Both were half-maid and half-snake, a plague to men, and associated with the Corycian cave in Cilicia. Python was also perhaps connected with a different Corycian Cave than the one in Cilicia, this one on the
Midgard Serpent (Marvel Comics) a splash page to depict the creature's size, and then full pages to demonstrate the battle between the pair. Although killed, the Serpent was resurrected in "Thor" #486 - 488 (May - July 1995), and featured in "Avengers" vol. 3, #1 (Feb. 1998) before reappearing in "Thor" #80 vol. 2, (Aug. 2004). The Midgard Serpent first appears when a scientist draws what he believes to be venom from a statue of the serpent, the liquid becoming a deadly solvent. In the realm of Asgard, the seer Volla makes a prophecy that Thunder God Thor will battle the Midgard Serpent during