Why a python and bow and arrows? Apollo carried a silver bow and golden arrows. He saw a village unhappy one day and went to see what was wrong. He asked a Little boy that was crying what was wrong. He said a creature lives in a mountain and comes in the night to breath his venomous breath on them and they don't wake up the next morning. The little boys mom didn't wake up that morning. Apollo shot an arrow. the house and the boys mom called for him. Apollo went to the mountain and found the beast. It was a python. He killed it with 3 arrows. The people built a temple in joy for Apollo on the mountian where he killed the beast.