🎧 Waypoint 4.4 — The Oracle at Dolphin: The Dragon Still Breathes

What survives when power buries what it fears?

In this Waypoint, we return to Delphi—to the cave beneath the polished marble, to the dragon who guarded the earth’s navel, and to the god who claimed the site as his own. The slaying of Python is often told as a simple triumph myth. Here, it becomes a meditation on how authority establishes itself—how conquest becomes consecration, and how breath becomes prophecy.

As the arrows fly and the dragon falls, something older remains. Vapors rise. Priests gather. Ritual forms around what was once wild. The sanctuary stands—but it stands over a wound.

This episode traces how legitimacy is constructed, how fear is managed, and how institutions learn to speak through what they have subdued. The dragon is slain. But the dragon still breathes.

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