In Greek mythology, Carmanor or Karmanor (Ancient Greek: Καρμάνωρ Karmánōr) was a Cretan priest who purified Apollo after he killed the Delphic dragon Python.
According to Walter Burkert the name Carmanor "does not appear to be Greek".
[2] According to second-century geographer Pausanias, when Apollo and Artemis had killed Python, the dragon at Delphi, they came to Carmanor in Crete to be purified,[3] and it was in Carmanor's house in Tarrha that Apollo mated with Acacallis, producing the offspring Phylacides and Philander.
[4] Carmanor had two sons, according to Pausanias, Euboulus, whose daughter Carme was the mother, by Zeus, of Britomartis,[5] and the poet Chrysothemis, who was said to have won the victory in the first competition—the singing of a hymn to Apollo—held at the Pythian games at Delphi.
[6] He had another daughter named Chrysothemis, which may refer to known as the attributes of the golden harvest as an agricultural demi-goddess.